Trusted by Canadian governments, unions & healthcare organizations
Canada's managed platform for telephone town halls, virtual meetings & voting.
Converso handles everything — technology, facilitation, and reporting — so your team focuses on the conversation, not the logistics. 600+ town halls delivered. 98% of clients come back.
Quotes in 1 business day
1.4M calls in a single campaign
WCAG AA accessible
The participation gap
Participation has become harder than it should be.
Canadians want to be consulted. They don't feel heard. The gap between expectation and reality is what every public-facing institution is now paying for at the ballot box, in the bargaining room, and in the news cycle.
68%
of Canadians say elected officials don't care what they think
86%
say governments should consult them before major decisions
37%
actually feel they have a real say
A 49-point gap between what people expect and what they get.
Converso is the solution.
We are the direct channel — live, two-way, on the record, at the scale Canada's public sector actually needs.
We are the direct channel.
Live, two-way conversations between your organization and the people you serve — at any scale, on any phone, with every voice on the record. No middlemen, no media filter, no consultation theatre.
What we do
A full toolbox for live engagement.
Every Converso engagement is custom-built. The capabilities below are the building blocks — used standalone or in combination, scaled to a hundred attendees or a hundred thousand.
Meetings
Telephone, video, hybrid, in-person town halls and member meetings. Two-way live, every comment captured.
Advocacy Campaigns
Multi-event campaigns, stakeholder engagement, and public consultations across regions, sectors, and audiences.
Emergency Response
Multi-agency, daily live events during wildfire, flood, public-health crises. Telephone-first reach.
Live Streaming
Live, hybrid, and remote livestream production for board meetings, conventions, and member events.
Outreach & Notifications
Robocall, SMS, IVR, and email — designed to maximize attendance and reach the audiences other tools miss.
Data
Active number query, landlines, cell numbers, and geolocation data — purchased standalone or as part of a campaign.
Voting
Electronic, online, in-person, and tiled-door voting for unions, political parties, and member organizations.
White-glove managed service
Every service above is delivered end-to-end by an experienced Canadian team. You bring the message; we handle the rest.
Where we apply it
Built for the institutions Canadians answer to.
Every sector page leads with the value proposition — what your peers use Converso for, the case studies that prove it, and the engagement types that fit your reality.
Government & Public Sector
Budget consultations, constituency town halls, emergency response, advocacy campaigns. Federal, provincial, and municipal.
Healthcare
Physician town halls, regional engagement campaigns, public-health communications, bargaining updates.
Indigenous Organizations
AGMs and GMMs in telephone-first hybrid format. Member meetings, voting, consultations, emergency comms.
Unions
Bargaining updates, contract ratifications, AGMs, conventions, advocacy campaigns. Tiled-door delegate voting.
Political
Conventions, voting (incl. delegate systems), fundraising, GoTV, Voter ID, SMS & IVR polling.
Credit Unions & Associations
AGMs, special general meetings, M&A communications, member engagement, hybrid events.
How it works
White-glove, end-to-end.
Converso is not a platform you buy and configure. It's a fully managed service, staffed by an experienced Canadian team from the first conversation to the final report. You bring the message — we build the rest.
1
Discovery & Estimate
Audience, objectives, channels, accessibility, multi-agency needs. Estimate within one business day.
2
Plan & Produce
Scripts, Q&A, moderator guide, speaker briefs, poll questions, platform & operator readiness.
3
Outreach
Robocall, SMS, IVR, email — multi-channel attendance maximization with dial-in instructions everywhere.
4
Live Event
Two-way, on the record. Every comment captured. Automated and live operator support depending on scale.
5
Report & Follow-Up
16 data points: participation, themes, polls, demographics, analytics — with recommendations for next time.
Featured case study
Listen to the actual event →
Government of Alberta: One channel, multiple ministries, every Albertan reachable.
A sole-source engagement spanning multiple ministries, with multi-event sequences run during routine policy cycles and active emergencies — including a 35-day daily wildfire response. The mandate: reach every Albertan with capacity for direct, on-record dialogue, including residents in regions where internet engagement is impossible.
1.4M
dial attempts
35
consecutive daily emergency events
100%
uptime across the program
Endorsements
The leaders who trust Converso.
Selected endorsements from across the public sector, healthcare, and union worlds.
★★★★★
"Converso ran daily town halls during the most chaotic two weeks our community has ever faced. They didn't just deliver information — they restored trust."
Matthew Harrison
Director of Communications, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo
★★★★★
"I have used Converso's services during times of urgency (wildfires, floods, Covid, etc.), and have experienced firsthand their ability to adjust, pivot and execute professional services regardless of the changing details, timelines or urgency."
Sarah Murrant
Executive Director, Public Engagement and Insights, Government of Alberta
★★★★★
"I can honestly say that I have never experienced a more effective, productive and straightforward way to communicate with, hear from, and get crucial input from, thousands of members at the same time."
Guy Smith
President, AUPE
★★★★★
"We have worked with Converso for both our General Membership Meetings and our electronic voting for several years. We are very satisfied with their exceptional service and look forward to continuing to work with them in the future."
Scott Payne
Director of Communications, UFCW 401
Who shows up
Every voice on the line — including the ones nobody else reaches.
Telephone-first design isn't a nostalgia choice. It's how you reach the seniors, the rural communities, and the Canadians whose only access to consultation is the device sitting on their kitchen counter. When the channel works for them, it works for everyone.
Selected clients
Dozens of clients from Coast to Coast. One source of truth.
White paper
The town halls that move the needle — and the ones that don't.
The Converso white paper on town halls — what makes a town hall move the needle, what gets people to dial in, and how the best public-sector teams turn a 90-minute event into 16 measurable outcomes. Free download, one email, no spam.
Our origin
Born of necessity. Built to last.
Converso was founded in the middle of a wildfire. In 2015, when a Canadian community needed to hear directly from its leaders — and its leaders needed to hear back from a population scattered across a province — the existing tools failed.
We built what was missing. Today, that same channel runs daily during emergencies, quarterly during budgets, and weekly during bargaining — for governments, hospitals, unions, and First Nations across Canada.
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Get started
Tell us about your engagement. We'll send a plan within one business day.
You don't need to know every parameter yet. Three short questions, then a real human reads it and gets back to you with an estimate, a sample plan, and dates that work.
- Quotes returned in 1 business day
- No-pressure consultation — we don't chase
- Canadian data residency · Canadian-staffed events
- Most engagements start under $50,000
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