A national research institute
Years of research, opened up as a conversation the public could question.
What came back clustered around cost and fairness, not the science.
Behavioural science · conversation at scale
Thousands of real conversations. One clear picture.
Parker helps public institutions have the difficult conversations that matter.
Nobody asked us last time.
What does this actually mean for my rates?
What worries you most about it?01
Too much at once
Complexity is a barrier long before disagreement is.
02
Too far away
Policy language hides what a decision does to your street.
03
Too little back
Engagement that goes unanswered teaches people not to bother.
The hardest topics in public life are the ones people disengage from.
Not because people don't care.
Our approach
We start from behaviour, not opinion.
We lower the barriers to taking part, so people participate and decide well.
The capability
Our platform holds a genuine conversation with each person, then makes sense of thousands at once.
What we do
Four services · one platform beneath them
01
Dynamic Campaigns
Outreach that asks as well as tells, and adapts as sentiment shifts.
Councils and agencies running public-information campaigns
02
Consultation Max
Engagement between an institution and its public, run end to end as a service.
Organisations accountable for engaging their population
03
Data Dialogue
Put a large body of knowledge into dialogue with people, instead of locking it in reports.
Research institutions with expertise worth making useful
04
Civic Education
Teaching young people what democratic elections are and how they work.
NGOs today; electoral commissions and education ministries next
What we did, what we surfaced
NZ arm of an international NGO
Young people taught what an election is — and asked what they made of it.
Confusion gave way to specific, answerable questions. Those are now the curriculum.
Behavioural science, technology, public-sector fluency
Meet the teamNick Gerritsen
CEO
Martijn Verhoeven
CTO
Andrew Smith
CFO
Jovana Balanovich
Behavioural Scientist