Skip to main content

Hear from the people your spaces are built for.

Most organisations only hear from the people who complain. Cicely captures continuous lived-experience data from the people actually using a place, revealing how different spaces work for different people over time.

Group of people in conversation around a table

Build a living understanding of your spaces.

See how a place performs every day, not just in the week a survey was open.

  • In-the-moment feedback
    People share experiences from the spaces they actually use, as they use them.
  • Continuous, not one-off
    A live signal instead of an annual snapshot, so change is visible early.
  • Across whole portfolios
    Roll insight up across buildings, sites and regions without losing local detail.
Get started
People sitting on grand stone steps between columns, using their spaces at their own pace
  • Continuous feedback
  • Portfolio insights
  • Live signals
  • Trend tracking

Evidence you can act on.

Lived experience turned into structured insight, ready for the people making the decisions.

  • Patterns, not noise
    We surface the recurring themes hiding in hundreds of individual comments.
  • Priorities you can stage
    Issues are clustered and ranked so you know what to tackle first and why.
  • Impact over time
    Track how interventions actually change the experience of using a space.
See how it works
Two people reviewing plans and paperwork together at a desk
  • Pattern analysis
  • Priority mapping
  • Barrier reporting
  • Impact tracking

Participation activations.

Events, installations and public moments that invite people to shape the places around them.

  • Built environment activations
    Pop-ups, campaigns and event experiences that invite people to reflect on the places they use every day.
  • Live participation tools
    Simple digital touchpoints that let people share how a space feels while they're actually there.
  • Collaborative campaigns
    Partner with Cicely to champion accessibility, inclusion and participation across events, institutions and public spaces.
Plan an activation
Group of people in conversation around a table
  • Community engagement
  • Public consultation
  • Placemaking
  • Participatory design
  • Inclusive design
  • Pop-ups
  • Live feedback
  • Campaigns

Tailored to your organisation.

Flexible by design for the organisations behind housing, campuses, transport, healthcare and public spaces.

  • Shaped to your estate
    We adapt to the buildings, sites and services your organisation is responsible for.
  • Start where it fits
    Begin with a research project, embed continuous participation, or combine both.
  • Built with your communities
    Designed alongside the people your work is actually for, not just about.
Tell us about your project
Person reviewing notes at a sunlit desk with a laptop
  • Housing
  • Universities
  • Transport
  • Healthcare
  • Cultural institutions
  • Workplaces
  • Public spaces
  • Infrastructure
  • Local authorities
  • Social care
  • Education
  • Retail estates

Better places begin with better participation.

Continuous lived experience, turned into structured evidence. Make decisions your communities can stand behind.