Feature catalogue

This is the reference for what dembrane does. Each page covers one capability: what it is, when you would reach for it, which role and plan it needs, and how it works. If you would rather read from your own point of view, start with who you are. Those guides link back here.

New to dembrane? 5 ways to use dembrane shows where it fits in a dialogue or deliberative process.

Foundations#

How dembrane is organised, who can do what, and what each plan includes.

• Organisations & workspaces: where your people and projects live.
• Roles & permissions: owner, admin, member, billing, external and observer, and what each can do.
• Tiers & billing: the plans, the free plan’s limits, seats, and what needs a paid plan.
• Offers & invoices: how your organisation gets an offer, signs it and receives its invoice.
• Invites & access: how people join an organisation or a workspace.
• Visibility & discovery: who can find and join a workspace.
• Account & security: signing in, two-factor authentication and your own settings.
• Staff support access: how dembrane staff reach a workspace, and only when you allow it.

Collecting conversations#

Getting what people say into dembrane.

• Projects: a set of conversations and everything made from them.
• Recording: recording in the portal and uploading audio.
• Transcription: how audio becomes text.
• The live monitor (Beta): watch a session while it runs.
• The participant portal: the page people record on, without an account.
• The portal editor: every setting a host has for that page.
• dembrane Go: the iOS app, which cannot sign in to the current version of dembrane.

Making sense of it#

Turning hours of dialogue into something a group can act on.

• Conversations & transcripts: find, read and tidy what you collected.
• Chat & Ask: ask questions about the conversations in a project.
• Present (Beta): prepare what a room sees, with popcorn, Tensions, Map and Stakeholders.
• Map (Beta): the arguments people make, with related arguments close together.
• Analysis: every finding with its evidence and the history of its edits.
• Canvases (Beta): a live page built from recent conversations.
• Reports: one written article made from a project’s conversations.
• Library & analysis: removed in dembrane v3. This page says what does that job now.

Working with others#

• The partner program: running dembrane for a client who owns the data.
• Data ownership & compliance: who owns the data, legal basis and anonymisation.
• Trainings: what a dembrane training means for you today.
• Notifications: the inbox, the emails and release notes.

Getting data out and building on dembrane#

• Export & data portability: transcripts as Markdown and audio as MP3.
• Webhooks & integrations: project webhooks, called Automation in the product (Beta).
• MCP & bring-your-own-LLM: connect your own assistant to your conversations.