ASK

Get Answers From Your Whole Community

Collect representative input through surveys and engagement tools built for every question and scale.

Get in Touch

Learn More

When You Need Answers, Not Just Signals

Zencity Ask helps government teams collect representative, defensible input so every decision is grounded in what the community actually thinks.

Annual Budgeting & Planning Run a representative community survey before budget season and walk into every allocation decision knowing what residents actually prioritise.

Resident Communications Measure how communications land so follow-up is grounded in what residents actually understood and felt.

Performance Management Re-run surveys year over year and show that your programmes are moving the needle on the things residents said they cared about.

Council Meeting Preparation Prepare every meeting with a defensible, representative and statistically valid read of community sentiment, not a show of hands from the most engaged residents.

Strategic Initiatives Survey residents before, during, and after major initiatives to track how sentiment evolves and demonstrate that decisions are reﬂecting community priorities.

Incident Response Field a fast, representative adhoc survey in the wake of an incident to understand community reaction before assumptions harden and the narrative sets.

Annual Budgeting & Planning

Annual Budgeting & Planning

Run a representative community survey before budget season and walk into every allocation decision knowing what residents actually prioritise.

Resident Communications

Resident Communications

Measure how communications land so follow-up is grounded in what residents actually understood and felt.

Performance Management

Performance Management

Re-run surveys year over year and show that your programmes are moving the needle on the things residents said they cared about.

Council Meeting Preparation

Council Meeting Preparation

Prepare every meeting with a defensible, representative and statistically valid read of community sentiment, not a show of hands from the most engaged residents.

Strategic Initiatives

Strategic Initiatives

Survey residents before, during, and after major initiatives to track how sentiment evolves and demonstrate that decisions are reﬂecting community priorities.

Incident Response

Incident Response

Field a fast, representative adhoc survey in the wake of an incident to understand community reaction before assumptions harden and the narrative sets.

How Ask Builds Defensible Insight

Built to make resident input credible, inclusive and useful, so teams can move from asking the right people to acting on answers they can stand behind.

Shape Better Engagements

Create surveys and activities around the decision at hand, using clear questions, accessible formats and structured input methods that make it easier for residents to participate meaningfully.

Reach More Residents

Use digital distribution, language support and representative sampling to reach beyond the usual voices, reduce participation gaps and reflect the wider community more accurately.

Capture Input at Every Moment

Collect feedback through managed surveys, DIY engagements, post-interaction surveys and collaborative activities, matching the method to the question, audience, timeline and level of depth required.

Turn Responses Into Evidence

Translate resident input into dashboards, summaries, benchmarks and reports that help leaders understand priorities, explain decisions and act with confidence.