Meeting and decision-making process
Run the entire meeting securely and with ease — from notices and agendas to voting, minutes and decision follow-up. Every module works together.
Meeting management
Manage the entire meeting process efficiently. From planning with case imports from specialist systems, through automatic notifications and deputy invitations, to archiving with generated minutes.
- → Case management and agendas
- → Preparation and notes
- → Automatic deputy invitations
- → Integrations with Sikri, Public 360 and ACOS
Proposals
Submitted digitally, distributed instantly to everyone in the room and published to the public in real time.
- → Digital proposals before and during the meeting
- → Automatic publishing
- → Recorded in the minutes
Digital voting
Modern digital voting with real-time updates in the room and for the public online.
- → Majority and unanimous decisions
- → Item-by-item voting
- → Automatically generated decisions
Time and speaker management
Politicians add themselves to the speaker list. The chair manages the order. Speaking time stops automatically.
- → Join the speaker list from your seat
- → Automatic video bookmarks
- → Searchable video archive
Meeting minutes
The minutes are generated automatically during the meeting, based on what actually happens. Ready when the meeting ends.
- → Automatic proceedings and decisions
- → Updated continuously
- → Export to case and records systems
Decision follow-up
Decisions are collected in dedicated lists, making it easier to follow up people, deadlines and tasks.
- → Automatic when a case closes
- → Statuses and comments
- → Subscribe to updates
Documents and notes
Preparation materials, attachments and private notes in one place. Available on iPad and in the browser.
- → Case documents and attachments
- → Private and shared notes
- → Synced across devices
Automatic deputy invitations
Fully automatic, semi-automatic or manual. Deputies can have deputies. Conflicts of interest are handled in the workflow.
- → Automatic SMS invitations
- → Automatic promotions
- → Conflict-of-interest management
Standard agenda items
Not every agenda item comes from the records system. Define standard items for each meeting — such as cultural performances.
- → Simplify meetings with standard items
- → Custom templates
- → Import per meeting
Lists
Attendance, absence and speaker lists — all updated continuously through the meeting notice.
- → Attendance list with deputies
- → Absence list
- → Updated automatically
Transparency and resident engagement
Make information accessible and strengthen engagement with residents. Live streaming, automatic captioning and structured publishing — all on one platform.
Kaukus Stream and video archive
Make politics accessible to every resident by live-streaming meetings. Automatic start and stop, plus archiving with advanced search. Use standard streaming equipment — with no vendor lock-in.
- → Automatic online streaming
- → Automatic bookmarks for each case
- → Searchable video archive
- → Resident portal with subscriptions
Public site
Residents can access meeting schedules, cases, proposals, decisions and live streams — all structured in one place.
- → Dedicated publishing solution
- → Structured public access
- → Less manual work
Automatic captioning
Every municipal video is captioned — including years of archived footage. The goal: you should never need to correct the captions.
- → Automatically captioned video
- → Even for years of archived footage
- → Ongoing innovation project
Cultural events
More than political meetings. A Christmas concert in Hol, the culture award in Vennesla — streamed through Kaukus.
- → Stream from anywhere
- → Edit metadata
- → Record before and after
Confidential matters
Access controls ensure that only authorised users can view confidential matters. They are never published publicly or included in a stream.
- → Automatic and manual access control
- → Multiple security mechanisms
- → Never streamed or published publicly
Politician compensation
Automatic travel expense claims and compensation reports based on meeting notices and voting rights.
- → Generated automatically
- → Configurable rates
- → Export to payroll
Platform and operations
Kaukus is built for the public sector. Proprietary technology, European servers, easy sign-in and support included — every day, until the meeting is over.
Committees and meeting calendar
Committees and lists are imported from case and records systems. The meeting calendar stays in sync. Residents and politicians can subscribe to the calendars they choose.
- → Easy import from case and records systems
- → Add your own meetings and events
- → Subscriptions for residents and politicians
- → Calendar sync (iCal, Outlook, Google)
Support and training
Kaukus is easy to get started with. Support and training are included with Kaukus Komplett.
- → Support included
- → Training included
- → Open from 08:00 until you are finished
Proprietary technology
European servers and technology developed in-house. Flexible enough to evolve together with our customers.
- → Norwegian technology developed in-house
- → European servers
- → Flexible development
No special equipment
No proprietary hardware. Anything from an iPhone to a production camera can stream to us.
- → Stream from an iPhone
- → Use your existing equipment
- → Buy additional equipment anywhere
Easy sign-in
Passwords, passkeys, Azure ID, Entra ID, BankID and more. Combine methods or enable them module by module.
- → Multiple methods, combined freely
- → BankID and ID-porten
- → Can act as an identity provider
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