---
id: communication/geodesignhub
about:
  label: Geodesignhub
  description: >-
    Hosted map-based negotiation software in which groups sketch spatial
    proposals, bundle them into alternatives and trade them off in facilitated
    sessions until they agree a plan.
  tags:
    - geodesign
    - negotiation
    - stakeholders
tool:
  form: Collaborative planning application
  group: Playing
  homepage: 'https://www.geodesignhub.com/'
open:
  source: closed
  data: unknown
  api: 'yes'
  participation: unknown
domains:
  - people
relations:
  - predicate: answers
    target: questions/combining-proposals
provenance:
  origin: agent
  sources:
    - title: Geodesignhub
      url: 'https://www.geodesignhub.com/'
    - title: Geodesignhub (pricing)
      url: 'https://www.geodesignhub.com/pricing/'
  reviewed: '2026-10-18'
  reviewed_by: 'Claude, from the sources listed'
  status: proposed
---
A session holds up to 50 participants, online or in a room with a trained facilitator.[^1] Proposals are traded off in structured give-and-take rounds, and the agreed plan is exported as reports and spatial data.[^1]

The company aims it at property developers, community groups, local authorities and planners, especially on contested sites where competing interests have stalled.[^1] The uses it lists are urban and regional planning, inter-agency coordination, public engagement, post-disaster rehabilitation, infrastructure investment, tourism, climate adaptation, environmental management and heritage protection.[^1]

A typical engagement takes a month or two: data preparation with geo-surveys, a one-hour introduction, a two-hour negotiation meeting, then reports and financial analysis.[^2]

Geodesignhub is commercial. Each event is priced by the expected number of participants and paid as a single up-front fee, though eligible public-service and humanitarian projects get discounts of up to 80 percent or free access for up to a year.[^2] The software imports existing GIS data, has an API, and exports to GeoPackage or GeoJSON at any time.[^1,2] A free online course teaches geodesign, the planning method the software follows.[^1]