Pricing and positioning
Dixit is offered as an annual licence, starting at €3,500. Pricing depends on the licence tier (Essential or Pro), the number of users, and the deployment setup.
In all cases, the licence includes onboarding and training, support, exports, unlimited alerts, and the ability to change the named user during the year.
The real question, therefore, is not “is it expensive?”, but rather: in which situations does a tool like Dixit become cost-effective — and from what point does it become difficult to operate without it?
This article is intended for EU public affairs teams, federations, consultancies, and corporate affairs departments that are weighing manual, ad-hoc monitoring against a more structured and scalable approach.
The real cost of parliamentary and EU monitoring is not on the “tools” line
When an organisation carries out parliamentary or EU monitoring without a dedicated solution, it absorbs several costs that are rarely visible in a budget, but constantly present in day-to-day operations.
These costs fall into five main categories: collection, filtering, reporting, coordination, and the risk of missing a window for action.
Collection: finding the information, everywhere, all the time
Before information can be analysed, it must first be collected: identifying the right sources, tracking the right links, retrieving documents, checking updates, reconstructing timelines, and ensuring that no critical element is missed.
This work is rarely formalised. It happens continuously. Yet it consumes significant attention, creates operational fatigue, and inevitably generates blind spots as workload increases — particularly during dense parliamentary or EU legislative sequences, or during holiday periods.
Filtering: reducing noise to extract what truly matters
Once information is collected, it must be filtered, qualified, and prioritised. In many organisations, this represents at least one hour per day, and often more during periods of legislative intensity.
Without dedicated tooling, this filtering relies on individual judgement, which is hard to trace, difficult to share, and poorly standardised across teams.
Reporting: when formatting overtakes analysis
Consultancies, federations and corporates share a common reality: the constant production of deliverables.
Internal briefings, member notes, management updates, rapid briefings during sensitive phases.
Without a tool, reporting quickly becomes time-consuming. Time spent on formatting ends up exceeding time spent on analysis or decision support. It is also the most visible part of the work, and therefore the one under the greatest internal pressure.
Coordination: sharing the same information, at the same time
Monitoring only creates value if it is shared and collectively usable: same information, same priorities, same formats.
When coordination relies on emails and files, the burden increases rapidly: repeated requests, multiple versions, inefficient back-and-forths.
The cost is not only time, but a loss of collective fluidity.
The most expensive risk: identifying an issue too late
The most common scenario is not missing everything, but seeing something too late.
An amendment deadline identified after the fact, a hearing spotted too late to act effectively, a sequence underestimated.
In these situations, the loss is not just time. It is a missed opportunity.
What you actually buy with Dixit: quickly usable deliverables
A monitoring platform only has value if it turns information into action.
One example that often resonates is the ability to produce clean, structured and shareable amendment trackers in just a few minutes.
This replaces dispersed collection, manual filtering, copy-paste work, and formatting.
It also makes it possible to standardise a core parliamentary deliverable, rather than rebuilding it for each legislative sequence. By combining best practices with technology and AI, Dixit introduces new operational standards.
Three cost-effectiveness scenarios (conservative assumptions)
The scenarios below are not commercial promises. They provide reasonable orders of magnitude to support decision-making.
Users are typically junior to mid-level profiles, with fully loaded annual costs between €50,000 and €70,000. At least one hour per day is spent on monitoring and deliverable production. The calculation only considers hours genuinely saved, excluding harder-to-quantify benefits such as reliability or risk reduction.
Scenario 1: time saved
Assume Dixit saves around three hours per week thanks to centralised information, targeted alerts, and immediately usable exports.
Over a working year, the number of hours saved becomes significant. In many teams, this alone makes the licence cost rational, while freeing up time for analysis, coordination, meetings, and strategy.
Scenario 2: Federation — serving members without increasing production load
For a federation, the tool becomes cost-effective as soon as it enables regular briefings, rapid reactions during legislative sequences, and clean deliverables without operational overload.
The benefit is both productive and qualitative. The platform makes it possible to deliver a structured, readable service to members, with reusable content.
Scenario 3: Corporate — securing key sequences and limiting delays
In a corporate context, the challenge is often twofold: reducing time spent on consolidation and reporting, and lowering the risk of discovering a structuring development too late.
A single poorly anticipated sequence can have economic consequences far greater than the cost of a solution — not in hours, but in late trade-offs and reduced room for manoeuvre.
Essential or Pro: how to choose
Essential licence
The Essential licence covers monitoring and core deliverables. It allows teams to centralise information, track legislative files and sequences, receive targeted alerts, and produce usable exports, including amendment trackers.
It generally covers the majority of day-to-day operational needs and provides a solid foundation without adding unnecessary complexity.
Pro licence (Essential + Strategy module)
The Pro licence includes all Essential features and adds a Strategy module, focused on analysis and visualisation. It enables teams to identify engaged parliamentarians or MEPs, analyse parliamentary activity through advanced filters, and produce clear visual outputs to support influence strategies.
Visualisations are white-label and exportable, and the platform remains accessible to non-data specialists.
In short, Essential structures monitoring and deliverables. Pro becomes relevant when the objective is also to structure, demonstrate and build alignment around an influence strategy.
FAQ
How much does it cost?
Dixit is offered as an annual licence starting at €5,400. Pricing depends on the licence tier, number of users, and deployment setup.
How long does it take to be operational?
The objective is to be useful quickly, without a heavy project. Implementation mainly consists of a training session during which monitoring scope and alerts are configured. You are typically 80% operational by the end of the training. The rest comes with use.
Can we start gradually?
Yes. Many organisations start with the most immediately valuable use cases and expand over time.
Why two licence tiers?
Because organisations differ in needs and maturity. Essential structures monitoring. Pro adds a layer of strategic analysis and visualisation.
What happens if the user changes during the year?
The licence adapts to internal changes. The named user can be modified during the subscription period.
Why pay for a subscription instead of doing everything manually?
Because manual monitoring already has a real cost: collection, filtering, reporting, coordination, and the risk of delays. The subscription is designed to bring robustness and responsiveness, especially during intense parliamentary and EU legislative sequences.
Next step
If you would like to assess whether now is the right time to equip your organisation, you can book a demonstration via the yellow “Request a demo” button.
During the demo, we will look concretely at amendment trackers and assess whether your organisation is better suited to the Essential or Pro licence.
