A meeting module of 1891 Organizations

Interactive sessions. Real signal from the room.

The Town Hall module turns a one-way meeting into a room you can read. The host opens a poll, a brainstorm, a Q&A, a quiz, a request-to-speak queue, or a quick vote — and every member's own screen turns into the way they take part. The room display shows the answers landing live. Run it as part of the full platform, or buy the module on its own.

Get Town Hall — $29/mo See all the ways to buy

  • Free to start
  • Six interactive tools
  • Join with a code — no account
  • WCAG 2.2 AA
Room display
What should we prioritize next quarter?
    Your screen
    Your answer?

      Six tools, one agenda

      Tap a tool on the host console. Every screen in the room follows.

      The host builds the agenda, then opens one tool at a time. Every member's own screen morphs to match. The room display shows the live aggregates. Pick the tool the moment needs — and switch in a tap.

      Poll

      A multiple-choice question. Live percentage bars on the room display as answers land.

      Brainstorm

      Open-text contributions. Show them as a tile wall or a word cloud. Feature the best ones.

      Q&A

      The room submits questions. Everyone upvotes. The top questions float up so you answer what matters.

      Quiz

      Multiple choice with a correct answer. Score the room. Show a leaderboard, or keep it quiet.

      Request to speak

      A first-in-line queue with names. Recognize one member at a time, in order, on the record.

      Quick vote

      Yes / no / abstain. A live tally. Three taps and the room has decided.

      Need parallel conversations? Split the room into breakout groups — auto-assign or pick — then bring everyone back with one tap.

      Try it

      Here's a live vote. Cast one.

      Second the motion, cast a vote, watch the tally fill. This is the same kind of live, every-screen-follows interaction the host opens during a session.

      How a session runs

      Three surfaces, one session.

      1

      The host runs the agenda.

      Type the agenda. Tap an item. Pick a tool. The room display and every member's own screen update at the same moment.

      2

      The room watches the display.

      The display at the front shows what's happening — the question, the answers landing, the live tally. No login. Open the URL and project it.

      3

      Members join with a code.

      A short code on the display. Members type it on their own screen, type their name, and they're in. For a closed roster, use a one-tap email login instead.

      Your records, plain and yours

      When the session ends, you download the whole thing.

      Every session produces a full record — the agenda, each tool you opened, every response, time-stamped. The host downloads it as a plain spreadsheet when the meeting closes. No re-keying, no "what did the loudest person say?", no signal lost in someone's notebook.

      • The full agenda, in the order you ran it.
      • Every poll, brainstorm, Q&A, quiz, and vote — with counts.
      • Every response, time-stamped, in a plain spreadsheet.
      • Yours to keep. Export anytime; leave anytime with everything.

      Read the universal-design contract

      Who it's for

      Companies running a weekly all-hands. Principals running a faculty meeting. Nonprofit boards running a quarterly review. HOAs running an annual member meeting. Conference organizers running breakout sessions. Anyone tired of guessing what the room actually thinks.

      See who it's for

      Built visible by default

      Every state change carries color, icon, and text.

      Town Hall is built to the same universal-design contract as the rest of 1891 Organizations. A high-contrast palette, large touch targets, and captions on every state change. Nothing the room decides depends on hearing.

      • Additive, never sole. Color, icon, and text on every change; haptic on a handheld.
      • Captions default-on whenever audio plays. The session works with the speakers muted.
      • No account to take part. A code and a name; large targets; readable at 200% zoom.
      • We never auto-caption ASL. That's a research problem, not a product. We respect the line.

      What it doesn't record

      Town Hall is about the screen and the room — not the audio. It doesn't record the room by default. When you need captured, signed minutes from a formal meeting, that's the Parliamentarian module, which carries the consent and retention scaffolding for it.

      When the network breaks

      A weak venue connection doesn't sink the room.

      Each member's screen queues its responses and flushes them when the connection comes back. If the host console drops, the room display keeps showing the last known view until it reconnects. Each session has its own short code, so you can run two at once without them touching. The room just keeps going.

      Two ways to buy

      Buy the module on its own, or get it inside the platform.

      The standalone price is the same number it costs to add Town Hall to a Standard plan — you never pay more for buying à la carte.

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      Town Hall, on its own

      Just the session engine — no membership platform. All six tools, the host console, the room display, and join-by-code for the room.

      • Free$0
      • Monthly$29 / mo
      • Annual$290 / yr
      • Single event, up to 200$129
      • Single event, up to 2,000$299

      Get Town Hall — $29/mo

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      Inside 1891 Organizations

      • Standard ($59 / mo): included if you pick it as your one module — or add it to the other for +$29 / month.
      • Complete ($149 / mo): included, alongside Parliamentarian, with multi-chapter rollup.
      • Public Sector (from $599 / mo): included, with compliance and single sign-on.

      See full pricing Start a deployment

      Free starts you at up to 50 in the room with one tool per session. The monthly plan opens all six tools, larger rooms, the spreadsheet export, and a custom room code.

      Run your next all-hands as a room that answers back — not a room that just listens.

      Get Town Hall — $29/mo Read the universal-design contract