Why I built Amendly
Amendly wasn’t born from a market study.
It was born from a testimony. Someone who came to me with a problem I didn’t know existed.
The problem I didn’t know about
They were managing the amendment process for a major congress preparatory committee. Weeks of work. Dozens of delegates. Constant updates. They’d heard there might be software for this. Could I find something?
I went to look. What I found was enterprise software built for institutions with dedicated IT departments and six-month procurement cycles. Completely unusable for a lean team under deadline pressure.
So I asked to see what they were actually doing.
The Word table
A Word table. Built by hand. Every amendment copied manually, formatted, tracked, updated. One person holding the entire process together — through discipline, through rigour, because there was no other option.
It wasn’t a broken process. It was the only process available.
And it isn’t an exception. It’s standard practice across dozens of European associations, federations, NGOs and trade union organisations. Not because these structures lack rigour — they often have more of it than most companies. But because this type of workflow was never taken seriously enough to deserve a real tool.
The people running these processes know exactly what I mean.
Why it convinced me to build something
I could have looked for an existing tool, recommended something, moved on. But there was nothing reasonable to recommend. And I had the skills to build it.
What convinced me to go all the way was that the problem is precise. Not vague, not generic. Precise. Amendment management in a congress follows clear rules: submission, duplicate checking, consolidation, traceability, distinct roles. It doesn’t need a generalist platform — it needs a tool that understands the process.
That’s what Amendly is.
What Amendly does differently
No IT configuration. No three-day training. You open the platform, create your congress, delegates submit amendments in a structured format, conflicts are detected automatically, the text consolidates in real time.
Every action is logged. Who submitted what, when, who approved it. The full record is always there.
And data stays in Europe — EU hosting, GDPR-compliant, no third-party processing of your organisation’s content.
Who it’s for
Any organisation that votes on resolutions: trade unions, professional associations, federations, NGOs with democratic governance, political parties, international membership bodies.
If you’ve ever run a congress with a shared document and a lot of goodwill, Amendly was built for you.
Running a congress or general assembly with amendments to manage? Visit amendly.eu to learn more.