What happens, end to end
From finding a campaign to hearing what changed. Swipe through to see what you'll be asked, and what comes back to you.
How it works
Five steps, 4–9 minutes, and an answer back
Councils, TAFEs and government departments bring decisions they are making right now. You answer on your phone, without an account, and they come back to say what happened.
- A few minutes on your phone
- No account or sign-up before you answer
- Your name and email stay separate from your answers
- Paid campaigns show the amount before you start
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The four steps
From finding a campaign to hearing what changed. Here is what you'll be asked, and what comes back to you.
Step 1 of 4: Find something being decided
Real decisions near you, each with a date attached. Not a suggestion box. If nothing's open near you, we say so.
Step 2 of 4: See what's fixed before you start
What you can change, what you can't, who decides and when. All of it before the first question.
Step 3 of 4: Every question is something you do
Spend a budget that won't stretch. Say which thing goes. Build a plan, drop a pin, pull a design apart. Never a scale from one to five.
Step 4 of 4: Find out what happened
They come back by a date they named before you started. What changed, what didn't, and why.
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The bits people ask about
Who can take part?
sayit is for people aged 15 to 29 in Australia. Each campaign is about one place or one decision, and the card says which. There are no screening questions. Nothing checks whether you count before you start.
What kind of questions are they?
Not a form. You might spend a budget that doesn’t stretch, say which thing goes, build a plan, drop a pin on a map, or pull a drawing apart and say what works and what doesn’t. Different campaigns use different kinds, so two rarely feel the same. The only thing tracked is your own progress — the kinds you’ve done, and the ones you haven’t been asked in yet. There is no score against anyone else.
Do I need an account?
Not to answer, and there never will be one in front of a question. An account does three things. It tells you what happened, keeps your answers if you change phones, and lets a paying campaign pay you. Making one takes a first name and an email — no surname, no address, no date of birth. Make one or don’t; what you answered is kept on this device either way.
Is there anything in it for me?
Getting paid for your input, where a campaign pays for it. The amount is on the card before you open it, and it only appears once the money is really there — a campaign that isn’t paying says nothing about money. How getting paid works. And either way, an answer: what happened, by a date the organisation names before it starts.
What does the organisation see about me?
Your answers, your age band and your postcode area. Never your name, your email or your exact address — those never travel with what you said. The plain-English version of what we keep.
What happens to what I said?
It goes to the organisation with everyone else’s. Every finding has to carry the numbers behind it. A group too small to report on its own isn’t reported on its own. You can change any answer right up until you send. After that nobody can — not you, not the organisation, not us.
What if I disagree with the whole question?
Say so. Every activity has a box for saying the question itself is wrong. That gets reported on its own, not folded into an answer you didn’t give.
What if nothing changes?
That happens, and it isn’t the same as nobody listening. An organisation can weigh what you said and still decide something else. What it owes you is the reason. Every campaign names a date to report back before it opens, and what didn’t change gets the same space as what did. If that date passes with nothing published, the campaign says so until it is.
What if a campaign brings up something hard?
Some decisions touch on hard things. Free, confidential support is there any time of day, and the services are real — Getting support.
Running a decision?
sayit for organisationsWork for a council, a department or a government body? If you want young people in a decision you’re making, the other half of this site is for you.