---
title: Loomio
type: platform
status: active
country: NZ
website: https://www.loomio.com
logo: /assets/org-logos/loomio.png
contact:
  checked: 2026-08-01
  email: contact@loomio.org
  source: https://www.loomio.com/contact
summary: A New Zealand worker cooperative building open-source collaborative decision-making
  software — used by cooperatives, NGOs, and local governments to run structured discussions,
  proposals, and votes.
concepts:
- democracy-tools
- liquid-democracy
- deliberative-democracy
- cooperative
- consensus-mapping
- worker-cooperatives
location:
  latitude: -41.2865
  longitude: 174.7762
  name: Wellington, New Zealand
  precision: city
events:
- date: '2012-01-01'
  title: First prototype launched from Occupy movement and Enspiral network in New
    Zealand
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomio
  quote: launched its first prototype
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-10'
  notable: true
- date: '2014-01-01'
  title: Raises $100,000 via crowdfunding for Loomio 1.0 release
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomio
  quote: raised over $100,000 via a Crowdfunding
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-10'
  notable: true
- date: '2014-04-01'
  title: Wins MIX Prize Digital Freedom Challenge
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomio
  quote: won the MIX Prize Digital Freedom Challenge
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-10'
  notable: false
activity:
  manual:
    checked: 2026-06-07
    date: 2026-06-07
    note: website loaded. No certain blog or news. But looks active at least based
      on vibes.
  sitemap:
    date: 2026-08-12
    note: Page last modified (from sitemap)
    url: https://www.loomio.com/marketing-sitemap.xml
    checked: 2026-08-17
last_checked: '2026-06-15'
---

Loomio is a Wellington-based worker cooperative that develops open-source collaborative decision-making software. Founded in 2012, it grew out of Enspiral — a New Zealand network of social-enterprise workers — and the Occupy movement's need for better collective decision-making tools. The cooperative ownership model is unusual in civic tech: the people building the platform are also its members.

The software supports threaded discussions, proposals, polls, ranked choices, and time-bound decisions. Groups move between async conversation and formal decision-making in the same space. It supports 30+ languages with automatic inline translation.

Loomio is widely used by cooperatives, local councils, NGOs, and community organisations across New Zealand, Australia, and internationally.

## Key people

- **Richard D. Bartlett and Ben Knight** — co-founders (2012), growing out of the Enspiral network of social enterprises and the Occupy movement's need for better collective decision-making tools. Bartlett went on to write and speak widely on self-organising, sociocracy, and open-source governance.[^loomio-wiki]

## Links

- Website: [loomio.com](https://www.loomio.com)
- Source code: [github.com/loomio/loomio](https://github.com/loomio/loomio)
- Wikipedia: [Loomio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomio)

## See also

- [Liquid Democracy](../concepts/liquid-democracy.md)
- [Cooperative](../concepts/cooperative.md)
- [Consensus Mapping](../concepts/consensus-mapping.md)
- [Worker Cooperatives](../concepts/worker-cooperatives.md)

[^loomio-wiki]: "Loomio emerged from the Occupy movement. In 2012, it launched its first prototype." [Loomio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomio), Wikipedia.