We run the engagement. You make the decision.

• We design the campaign

  From the plan, brief or report you already have. We work out what is genuinely open for influence and what is already settled, choose activities that fit the shape of the decision, and write the plain-language framing. You correct it rather than write it.

• We run the reach

  Social, field work and activation, aimed at the young people the decision affects rather than whoever happens to be on a mailing list. You open the doors only you have; we do the rest and keep asking where the answers are thin.

• We do the analysis

  Every measure computed, anything too small to report safely suppressed, and every finding checked against the numbers behind it. You get a report that says what the answers can and cannot support, not a spreadsheet to interpret.

• You make the decision

  And you publish what you did with it, on a date you name before the campaign opens. That part is not ours to do for you, and it is the part young people notice.

This is the part you cannot assemble from suppliers, and it is why young people finish. Everything else we do exists to get somebody to this screen and to make what they said count.

• 01

  A real trade-off, not a satisfaction scale

  Split a budget that doesn’t stretch. Say which thing goes. The answer that comes back is a decision somebody made, with what it cost them attached.

• 02

  Minutes, on the phone already in their hand

  Four to nine minutes, designed for a phone first. No account, no screening questions, nothing to sign up to before they start.

• 03

  Paid for their time, where the campaign funds it

  Paid for finishing, never for agreeing — and the amount is on the card before they start, only once the money is actually held.

• 04

  Their name never reaches you

  You receive the answers, an age band and a postcode area. That is why young people answer honestly, and it is not negotiable per campaign.

• 05

  They find out what happened

  What changed, what didn’t, and why — published back to everyone who answered, by the date you named. It is the part most engagement skips.

The quickest way to judge it is to do it. Answer a worked example yourself — a few minutes, on your phone, exactly as a young person meets it. Or read the participant’s version of this page.

A campaign nobody hears about is a survey with better manners. This is the work that gets young people to it and makes what comes back land where decisions are made.

• Social campaign

  Creative, content and paid social aimed at the young people the decision affects, in the places they already are — not a post on the corporate account that reaches the people who already follow you.

• Field opportunities

  Schools, youth services, festivals, sport, shopping centres — sessions run in person where young people already gather. Every response records where it came from and whether somebody helped, so field answers are evidence in the same report rather than a separate anecdote.

• Meaningful activation

  Launching it so it lands, inside the organisation as well as outside it: briefing the people who will be asked about it, getting the outcome in front of the committee that has to read it, and closing the loop in public rather than in a report nobody opens.

Six steps, and what each side does at each one. The division of labour is the offer: we do the translation and the arithmetic, you hold the decision.

1. 01

   Bring us the decision

   You

   Give us whatever you have. A draft plan, an engagement plan, the survey that's already out, a project page, an email chain, or just a description. It does not have to be youth-friendly, and it does not have to be finished.

   sayit

   We read it. From the material we work out the project, the decision being made, the objectives, who it affects, the constraints, the dates, and where the engagement is already up to.

2. 02

   We work out what's genuinely open

   You

   You check what we understood. It is a summary to correct, not a form to fill: where the material was clear we say so, where it wasn't we ask — and only about the things we couldn't work out.

   sayit

   We separate what young people can influence from what is already decided, and we rewrite the decision as a question a sixteen-year-old would answer. If nothing is open, we say so, and we don't run it.

3. 03

   sayit designs the campaign

   You

   You answer the two things we can't: why you want young people in this decision, and what you are willing to change because of it. Then you read the draft and tell us what's wrong.

   sayit

   We choose activities to fit the shape of the decision, set the length, write the plain-language framing, and set the promise — what you will do with the answers, and the date you will report back by. Everything that would make the campaign overclaim is flagged before it can open.

4. 04

   Young people take part

   You

   You open the doors only you have: your channels, your schools and services, your networks. While it's open you watch reach and completion, and who is answering.

   sayit

   We run the campaign and the reach — social, field work and activation — and we keep asking where the answers are thin. Each participant sees what's being decided and what's fixed before the first question, does a few minutes of real trade-offs on their phone, reads it all back, and sends it. No account, no screening, nothing to sign up to.

5. 05

   You receive evidence you can use

   You

   You read the results once the campaign closes: who took part, what they chose, what they wrote, and what it can honestly support. You write the findings, or start from ours.

   sayit

   We compute every measure, suppress anything too small to report safely, and check that every finding cites the numbers behind it. The report says what the participants can and cannot speak for, so nobody reads a finding as standing for a population it can't.

6. 06

   Everyone finds out what happened

   You

   On the date you named, you publish the outcome: what was decided, what changed, what didn't and why, and what happens next. What didn't change is asked for with the same weight as what did.

   sayit

   We publish it back to everyone who answered and keep it as a public record on the campaign's own address. If the date passes and nothing is published, the campaign is shown as overdue — in public — until it is.