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About Vocean

The idea carries the weight, not the person behind it

Vocean exists so that everyone in an organisation can contribute to decisions, not just the loudest voices. We build the platform where scattered perspectives become decisions everyone stands behind, and where the result goes back to everyone who took part.

  • Founded in 2018
  • Organisations in every sector
  • 800,000+ contributions in Vocean

Why Vocean exists

Enriching the world with thinking organisations

Our vision is organisations where people's thoughts and ideas are systematically put to use and turned into better decisions. That is rarely the case today. In most meetings and workshops, the same few voices take up the room, while the quiet ones, who often have ideas that are just as good, never get heard.

Vocean was founded in 2018 to change that. The more people think together from different perspectives, the wiser the solutions, and the people who helped build them feel ownership of them.

Vocean is a complement that enriches the processes you already have. The AI takes care of the follow-up work, but it is the participants' perspectives that create the value.

Vocean promotes collective intelligence by capturing the power of human insight and co-creation, driving the journey of change together with AI towards the thinking organisation.

People's ideas at the centre

Ideas, creativity and fresh thinking are the key in complex development processes. It is the idea that carries the weight, not the person behind it.

Open innovation and co-creation

Everyone takes part in the ongoing renewal. Solutions are built together, so participants feel ownership of them.

People and AI together

Vocean AI enables faster and wiser decisions, with unique human data as the starting point.

The Vocean method

Collect, co-create, co-understand

The Vocean method is the way of working behind the platform. Every process, from a single workshop to an entire strategy effort, is built from the same three phases, and the result always goes back to the people who contributed. Then the next round begins.

  1. 1 · Collect

    Input

    Participants share their thoughts and ideas directly. You can also bring in other material, such as earlier reports or strategic plans.

  2. 2 · Co-create

    Insights

    Insights show up straight away in the data, and Vocean AI helps bring out more. They show what to focus on. Share them with the participants right away, don't wait.

  3. 3 · Co-create

    Refine

    Participants discuss the insights, like and build on each other's ideas and prioritise together. New thoughts keep coming in, and solutions nobody had put into words yet take shape.

  4. 4 · Co-understand

    Output & feedback

    Analyses and reports are produced automatically. A verified output, an approved summary, becomes the basis for decisions, and participants see what their contributions led to.

Renewal. Every output becomes the input for the next step. That is how small processes add up to the larger development effort.

Before, during and after

The method is not limited to the meeting itself. It follows three time horizons.

  1. Before

    Collect perspectives before you even meet.

  2. During

    Spend your time together discussing and deepening the insights that are already there.

  3. After

    Give feedback to the participants and keep refining the material.

The Vocean effect

When an organisation systematically refines people's experience and thinking, individual perspectives become shared insights that build trust. Learning becomes part of how you work instead of something that happens now and then.

  • From pulling out answers to people wanting to take part
  • From silos to seeing the whole
  • Participants' voices reach all the way into the boardroom

A thinking organisation is built on thinking people.

Founders

The people behind Vocean

Vocean was founded in 2018 by Daniel Kassell and Peter Kollin. The platform has been developed together with our customers.

Daniel Kassell

Daniel Kassell

CEO and co-founder

”The only way forward is together”

Daniel has a solid background in IT and software development, where the focus has always been on the user. He believes in people's ability to solve problems and in the strength of meeting challenges together.

Peter Kollin

Peter Kollin

Chairman of the Board and co-founder

”We combine people's unique ability to think, come up with solutions and be creative with the speed, analytical power and support of AI.”

Peter is passionate about open innovation and ecosystems. By inviting customers, suppliers and other stakeholders into co-creation, organisations can go much further than on their own, with collective intelligence and AI as the driving force.

Try the Vocean method with your team

Run a real workshop with your team and get the analysis straight away. One workshop with up to 20 participants, 4 analyses and 1 question of your own to Vocean AI, no time limit and support included.

At your own pace · How the trial works

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