How Middle Ground Works

  • Created to support your core workflows, Middle Ground turns input from participants into structured consultation data, with almost no typing.
  • Upload consultation records or add them through chat, including emails, letters, survey results, meeting notes or even a post it note.
  • Information is added into the appropriate place in the database.
  • Ask questions about your project, your consultation or the engagement participants you’ve heard from and get quick, fully cited answers back.
  • Middle Ground is your engagement advisor, helping draft documents and reporting — be it to participant inquiries or regulators or reports like What We Heard reports, briefing notes, Internal updates, decision support materials and more.

Created by consultation professionals

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Consultation and engagement is time consuming and challenging. Doing it right and doing it more efficiently is critical.

Middle Ground is not about replacing the human part of consultation—it is about protecting your time so you can focus on being more strategic, and spend more time talking and listening to the public, Indigenous Groups and stakeholders.

Use Cases for Middle Ground

Governments, organizations and the private sector have to consult and engage with Indigenous groups, stakeholders and the public.
We help them do this better, faster and more cost-effectively.

Major Projects

  • Both private and public capital projects
  • Consultation is part of the regulatory & approval process
  • Occurs over many years under evolving circumstances
  • Both proponents and regulators

Major Reforms

  • Public sector and governments engaging consulting on major reforms
  • Large quantities of incoming information
  • Need for synthesis and analysis

Ongoing Engagement

  • Ongoing engagement with First Nations or stakeholders

  • Track engagement and gain visibility into ongoing relationships, actions and outcomes

  • Easy interface encourages more team members to track engagement

Ethical AI, Built for People

Middle Ground creates technology that is safe, transparent and fair – designed to empower human decision-making and build lasting trust. From design to deployment, we embed ethics and responsibilities into every step, creating AI that earns confidence from day one. Middle Ground is designed with accountability, privacy and inclusively in mind, ensuring technology that aligns with human values.

FAQs

Have questions? We have answers.

Stakeholder trackers are often complex, with many modules to learn and the need to data enter! 


Instead, use Middle Ground to harness the power of safe, responsible AI to host or integrate your stakeholder map, including assigning engagements and tracking outcomes.


Middle Ground can also "ingest" your consultation records automatically using AI, eliminating the need for data entry while still empowering you to edit.

When you respond to stakeholders, you can do it within Middle Ground itself, using previous messaging or correspondence as the basis of your response, which Middle Ground can “compose” for you.

Middle Ground builds trust by offering users answers based on documents that you provide about your project, such as the environmental assessment documentation that’s typically uploaded to a major regulator or permitting agency website, drastically reducing the chance of hallucination.


Searching with Google may take hours to find the answer and it may not be in plain language. 


ChatGPT and other LLMs can quickly provide easy-to-read information, but they rely on their own training data and internet research to provide answers. Middle Ground sources its answers only from the documents you provide, complete with citations.