Deliberation at coalition scale.

Coalitions, professional bodies, and institutions need a way to find out what their members actually think — beyond in-person meetings, surveys that flatten nuance, or majority votes that paper over real disagreement.

Cabildo brings the listening half of the asamblea online: open input from everyone, structure surfaced from what they actually say, decisions left to the people who have to make them.

We’ll let you know when Cabildo is ready for institutional pilots.

About the name

Cabildo is a Spanish word with a long, layered history. In Spanish American colonial cities the cabildo was the municipal council. In moments of crisis it could declare itself the cabildo abierto — the open council — and admit ordinary townspeople to attend and speak. The cabildo abierto of Buenos Aires on May 22, 1810 deposed the colonial viceroy and triggered Argentine independence. It is remembered as the moment the council opened to the people.

Across the Andes and Mesoamerica, indigenous communities adopted the cabildo as their own institutional form, blending it with their own governance traditions. Today, Cabildos Indígenas in Colombia are constitutionally recognized self-governance bodies (Article 246 of the 1991 Constitution), running asambleas — extended community deliberations where decisions emerge from listening rather than from counting votes.

Cabildo, the platform, is built to serve that kind of deliberation at scale. We are not affiliated with any indigenous organization, and the practice is older and richer than any tool. We use the name with respect for both lineages, and welcome dialogue with anyone — academic, indigenous-rights, civic-tech — who wants to talk about it.