Your members have a vote. Do they have a voice?
Nine people decide. Two hundred find out later. Autono moves co-operative decisions off the AGM agenda and into a structured process every member can join from their phone, in their own time.
Start with one team. No rollout required.
Works on any phone- Decide without a meeting
- Every decision recorded
Democracy that only works for the people who can make Tuesday night
The quorum scrapes through. The same six members carry everything. Board seats go unfilled. Members say they feel out of the loop, and they are right, because the deliberation happened in a room they could not get to.
Meanwhile your elected coordinators are exhausted, and the more meetings you add to fix engagement, the fewer people come.
Participation stops depending on attendance
Open a decision. Every member gets it, on the device they already use. They read the context, ask questions, raise concerns and vote inside a window that fits around shifts, caring and time zones. It closes with a clear outcome, a recorded rationale, and a trail anyone can inspect.
“Nobody had to be in the room. Everybody was in the decision.”
VotedBoosting Membership Engagement
in 3 easy steps with Autono
Propose
Anyone with the authority opens a Session.
Two minutes of setup, not two weeks of agenda wrangling. Just add the context and the options.
Deliberate
Members contribute asynchronously.
Objections surface early, in writing, where they can be answered rather than argued.
Decide and record
The session closes and the decision is recorded.
The Decisions log captures what was agreed, why, by whom and what happens next.
Time, quorum and peace of mind
Hours back for your coordinators
Decisions that used to need a meeting stop needing a meeting. The AGM becomes a moment to celebrate, not a bottleneck everything queues behind.
Participation you can actually show
Turnout, contribution and vote data per decision, which is the evidence your board, your regulator and your members all keep asking for.
A defensible record
Every decision carries its reasoning. When someone asks in 2029 why the rule exists, the answer is in the system, not in a former coordinator’s memory.
Members have a vote, but not a voice. Consultation on decisions is limited and members end up perceived as passive, when the structure is what excluded them.
Three things you might be thinking
“Half our members are not confident with software.”
Then the tool has failed, not the member. Autono is mobile-first and reading a proposal takes the same effort as reading a message. There is nothing to install and nothing to learn before your first vote.
“We already use Loomio, or a group chat, or email.”
Those handle a conversation. They do not hold your roles, your policies, your contracts and your decision history in one place, and they do not tell a new member why the co-op works the way it does.
“Our budget is smaller than a commercial company’s.”
Which is exactly why per-seat pricing punishes co-ops. You pay for the organisation once.
Start with one decision
Take the next thing that would otherwise wait for a meeting, and run it in Autono instead. If your members do not participate more, you have lost an afternoon.
Yes. That is the point. Sessions run over a defined window and members contribute whenever they can.