Powerful Software for
PUBLIC COMMENTS & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Transform your stakeholder engagement
with SmartComment's powerful tools.

SmartComment was founded to vastly improve the community engagement process. Our platform achieves this by streamlining engagement from regulations, rule changes and permit applications. Additionally, we offer invaluable support to agencies and organizations that depend on stakeholder collaboration. At the core of SmartComment is a dedication to transparency and accessibility, which not only empowers citizens but also offers agencies a straightforward method for analyzing, responding to, and taking action on public comments and community engagement.

public review suite

Efficient Public Comment Analysis and Response Workflows with Transparent Decision-Making.

Community Engagement

SmartComment streamlines public feedback for inclusive community engagement.

build a Document

Build a document allows stakeholders to step through and comment on each section of a document.

demographic mapping

SmartComment’s Demographic Mapping visualizes data to grasp community perspectives and impacts of projects.

Stakeholder Hub​

SmartComment provides detailed reports that give your staff the information they need.
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Who we’ve worked with

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What Everyone is Saying...

"SmartComment is fantastic. It combines ease of use with transparency and has upped our public engagement game significantly. It has saved huge amounts of time as we no longer have to respond to public records requests because all of the comments are already online. It has also increased the amount of comments we receive for permits and regulation changes, making government more accessible and transparent. Just what Alaska was looking for!"
Jason BruneCommissioner, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
"SmartComment is a game-changer!!! The SmartComment software provides the public with easy comment entry, interactive mapping, and a comment dashboard to provide efficient management of comments and easily display comment analytics for ‘comment tracking’. SmartComment gives staff the ability to take an automated approach to something that was done manually before to increase productivity and efficiency."
Mason PerroneAssistant Chief, Rhode Island Division of Statewide Planning
"Using SmartComment to manage our public comment periods provides a clear and streamlined user experience for our stakeholders. Behind the scenes, we have received incredible support from the SmartComment team when training our users or managing high profile or special projects."
Katie WoltAgency Rules Coordinator, Washington State Department of Ecology
"SmartComment has been immensely helpful in handling hundreds of our public comment periods every year. It meets the public's needs to easily provide electronic comments to our agency, while helping us organize and respond in a timely manner."
Keith GuilleOutreach Program Manager, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality
"SmartComment has enabled more people in more places to share their comments with our agency. Not only does SmartComment provide a beautiful and accessible user interface, but it also includes helpful tools for managing and responding to comments, making our agency’s work more efficient and effective."
Elizabeth Koniers BrownDirector, Delaware River Basin Commission
"SmartComment has been a game-changer for us! It helps us gain input on our standards, and the responsive vendor ensures a seamless experience. Easy-to-use with robust reporting, making data-driven decisions has never been more effortless."
Donna MerrickProduct Enhancement Principal, URAC
“SmartComment is allowing us to cast a wider net and providing a way to categorize and easily understand the information.”
Sharon JayeExecutive Director
"Handwritten comments are a thing of the past. SmartComment expedited our responses to public comments.”
James SantosProject Manager, Parsons

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