Private Loomio
Loomio, built around your organisation
A dedicated, white-labelled Loomio for organisations that need greater control over security, identity, data location, language, and the way decisions are made.
Talk to LoomioTell us what your organisation needs. We’ll work out whether standard Loomio, a private host, or a more customised implementation is the right fit.
More than private hosting
Your decision system, not just another software account
Some organisations cannot adapt an important participation or governance system to fit a generic cloud service.
Private Loomio gives you a dedicated environment and a direct relationship with our team. We can shape the deployment, experience, language, and workflows around your security requirements and the way your organisation already works.
For decisions that need a controlled environment
Private Loomio is a good fit when one or more of these requirements determines whether your organisation can use the platform.
Security and procurement
You need a dedicated environment, security review, defined controls, and a technical partner who can work through organisational requirements.
Data residency
Your data must remain in a particular country or region, or the application must run on infrastructure your organisation controls.
Managed identity
People should sign in through your identity provider, with access fitting established onboarding and offboarding practices.
A familiar experience
The service needs your domain, identity, visual language, navigation, and guidance so it feels like part of the organisation.
Established rules and processes
Your groups, roles, decision methods, thresholds, and reporting obligations need to be reflected in the software.
Scale and support
You need a considered implementation for a large or complex organisation, with direct support for administrators and adoption.
Deployment and security
Run privately, in the place that works for you
Loomio is open-source software. We can operate a dedicated environment for your organisation, deploy it in an agreed country or region, or support a deployment on infrastructure you control.
Dedicated environment
Your own Loomio instance and database, separated from the shared Loomio cloud service.
Deployment choice
Managed by Loomio in an agreed location, or deployed into your own infrastructure or data centre.
Single sign-on
Connect SAML or OAuth identity providers, including Microsoft and Google environments.
Operational partnership
Work directly with our team on security review, setup, upgrades, backups, and ongoing support.
Configured around your organisation
Make Loomio feel like the natural home for the process
A familiar interface is useful. A platform that reflects how people understand their organisation is more useful.
Your identity
Use your organisation’s name, domain, logo, colours, entry experience, and navigation rather than presenting Loomio as a separate public service.
Your language
Adapt terminology, interface guidance, and available languages to the words your members, employees, delegates, or stakeholders already know.
Your structure
Reflect departments, chapters, committees, working groups, constituencies, roles, and visibility boundaries.
Your decision processes
Turn established rules and methods into guided templates, proposal types, response options, participation rules, thresholds, and outcome records.
Where Private Loomio is most useful
The common thread is not industry. It is a consequential decision system, a complex organisation, and requirements that ordinary SaaS cannot meet.
Employee participation
Large employers with formal participation, representative problem-solving, or continuous improvement systems.
See the use case →Unions
Large, distributed memberships that need secure deliberation, representative mandates, managed access, and decision processes members can trust.
See Loomio for unions →Political parties and movements
Large democratic organisations that need private spaces, managed identity, and decision rules their members trust.
See the use case →Federations and member networks
National or international organisations coordinating chapters, committees, delegates, and a large membership.
See the use case →International nonprofits
Distributed organisations that need secure access and a reliable record across programmes, offices, and time zones.
See the World Resources Institute case study →Open-source and standards bodies
Communities protecting long-term governance records, data ownership, and continuity beyond any one vendor.
See the OpenSSL case study →Raise Recruiting · The RaiseOS
“The architecture of decisions in Loomio very much aligns to our beliefs about decision making.”Luz Iglesias, Raise Recruiting
Raise has turned its way of working into an explicit operating system. The RaiseOS guides people through generative decision-making, advice and consent processes, role decisions, feedback, facilitation, and contribution review. Loomio gives those practices a shared digital home across a 450-person, three-country organisation.
Explore the RaiseOS →From traditional recruiter to self-managing organisation
A 60-year-old recruiting company threw out the org chart, gave every employee the same authority as the CEO, and scaled it to 450 people across three countries.
- Self-management scaled to 450 staff
- Decisions proposed, debated, documented centrally
- Equal voice regardless of seniority
- Transparent record of team decisions
OpenSSL Project · Open-source infrastructure
“Loomio is very important for us, not just from the perspective of input we want to gather, but from the archival perspective.”Anton Arapov, OpenSSL Project
Governing the library that secures the Internet
When the whole internet depends on your library, you can't make decisions behind closed doors anymore.
- Multi-stakeholder community input
- Transparent archive of every decision
- Delegate voting balances power fairly
- Reach beyond your developer community
World Resources Institute · Global nonprofit
“The record is really the key thing. Separating these consequential decisions from the noise.”Jared Messinger, World Resources Institute
WRI’s 150-person restoration team works across three continents and five time zones. Their Private Loomio gives distributed teams a dedicated place for budget approvals, work-plan revisions, multi-stage decisions, and a reliable record of what was decided and why.
How a global nonprofit brought transparency to distributed decisions
150 people across three continents, restoring degraded land—and the decisions couldn't wait for the next meeting.
- Clear record of key decisions
- Structured input from distributed teams
- Multi-stage approvals across time zones
- Decisions separated from communication noise
A direct relationship
Start by understanding the system
Private Loomio is not a self-serve plan. We begin with your requirements, the people involved, and the decisions the system needs to support.
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Discovery
Map security, hosting, identity, organisational structure, governance methods, integrations, and adoption needs.
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Design and implementation
Agree the deployment and configure the experience around a real process rather than an abstract feature list.
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Adoption and support
Equip administrators and facilitators, learn from initial use, and expand when the practice is working.
Private Loomio
Tell us what your organisation needs Loomio to become
We’ll listen, work through the requirements with you, and be direct about what is possible.
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