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Stakeholder relationship management software for UK government

Jambo is Stakeholder Relationship Management (SRM) software for UK central government departments, arm's-length bodies and local authorities. It keeps a single record of every stakeholder conversation across teams, departments, and overseas offices, so the people who need it can see who said what to whom.

Available on G-Cloud 15. UK-hosted. Cyber Essentials certified, and ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 27017:2015 certified.

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What has anyone here said to this stakeholder?

Most government departments can't answer that question quickly. Conversations with ministers, officials, strategic suppliers and foreign government counterparts happen across teams, departments and overseas posts. Emails sit in individual inboxes. Some teams have tried CRMs like Salesforce or Microsoft Dynamics and found nobody uses them. Others rely on spreadsheets, or nothing at all. When a director asks for everything the department has said to a key stakeholder in the last six months, it takes days to piece together.

Jambo fixes that with one shared record. Every email, meeting and call with a stakeholder is logged in one place, visible to the people who need it, and searchable in minutes.

Jambo is on the G-Cloud 15 framework, so UK public sector buyers can procure it through the Digital Marketplace without running a full tender. It's UK-hosted, Cyber Essentials-certified, and holds ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 27017:2015 certifications.

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Built for relationships, not sales pipelines

 CRMs are built to close sales, not to keep a shared record of engagement across teams. A CRM moves one contact through one deal to a close. Government stakeholder relationships don't close. They run for years, involve many people on both sides, and get reviewed by leaders who weren't in the room. That's why CRM adoption for stakeholder engagement work is usually low. 

With Jambo, UK government teams can:

Log every stakeholder email from Outlook with the free add-in, and from Gmail and other providers through a project email address.

 Pull up the full history of any stakeholder or organisation in one view.

 Spot recurring themes with AI summaries and auto-tagging against the tags your team defines, then review them at the project level or across the whole department.

 See how relationships are going with AI sentiment analysis across a stakeholder's or organisation's communications.

Assign follow-up tasks to team members, so every agreed-upon next step has an owner.

 Keep relationship history in the system when people move roles or leave.

Jambo for central government departments

External affairs, stakeholder engagement and government relations teams manage relationships with a defined set of high-value stakeholders. These include ministers, officials, strategic suppliers to the government and foreign government counterparts. In departments with overseas posts, several teams in several countries often talk to the same people.

Jambo provides the department with a single shared record of every conversation. You can brief a minister with the full picture, see the issues stakeholders keep raising, and keep the relationship history when someone moves on.

 

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Jambo for councils and combined authorities

Communications and engagement teams ask colleagues to brief partners, businesses and residents on council initiatives, but have no way to verify whether it happened.

Jambo logs every stakeholder conversation across council departments. You can tag communications by initiative, see who was reached, spot the issues residents and partners keep raising, and report engagement to councillors within minutes. When you run a consultation on a local plan or service, all responses are stored in the same record.

 

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Jambo for consultation teams

If your team runs statutory or public consultations, the record matters when a decision is challenged. A consultation can be quashed by judicial review if it fails the Gunning Principles. Those are: consult at a formative stage, give sufficient reasons, allow adequate time, and conscientiously consider responses before deciding.

The fourth is the hardest to provide evidence for. Jambo keeps every response, meeting and decision in one searchable system. That means you can show conscientious consideration on the record and answer a Freedom of Information (FOI) request with the full history to hand.

 

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Why UK public sector teams choose Jambo

Trusted security and hosting


  • Available on the G-Cloud 15 framework, so you can procure without a full tender
  • UK-hosted
  • Cyber Essentials certified
  • ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 27017:2015 certified
  • UK GDPR compliant
  • Jambo Secure AI never trains on customer data
  • Role-based access controls, multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO)
  • Dedicated Information Security Officer
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Quick and easy onboarding


  • Onboarding includes account setup, project and data structure configuration, and reporting setup
  • Data import templates and support for using them
  • Administrator and team training
  • Ongoing support from your Customer Success team
  • 24/7 ticket submissions through a helpdesk and knowledge hub of support articles and videos

What customers say about Jambo

"Jambo really is such a better tool than the one we had before, with so many options and opportunities to keep our database up to date, and to track issues, meetings, events, etc. It is so interactive and easy to use - it is a GAME CHANGER!"
Jambo daily user, State Level Health Agency
"Jambo features have streamlined our processes and ensured that our stakeholder data is organized and accessible. Beyond the functionality, the customer support and service have been excellent. The Jambo team has been responsive, knowledgeable, and proactive in helping us maximize the system's capabilities. Overall, Jambo has become an integral part of my team's stakeholder engagement strategy."
Executive Director, Communications & Engagement, Government team
BC Energy Regulator
“Support from the Jambo Customer Success team is provided very quickly. It is much appreciated in the fast-paced engagement world."
Manager, Stakeholder Relations, BC Energy Regulator
Government of Canada
“Jambo is very easy to use and intuitive. It has great functions that make tracking very easy!”
Engagement Coordinator - Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Government of Canada

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): Jambo for UK central and local government

Here, you can find answers to the most commonly asked questions about Jambo for UK public sector teams.

If you don't find the answer you're looking for, our friendly sales team is always here to help. You can contact us at hello@jambo.cloud.

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Is Jambo designed for UK central and local government?

Yes. Jambo is SRM software for UK central government departments, arm's-length bodies, and local authorities, including councils and combined authorities. Teams use it to keep a shared record of stakeholder conversations across departments and overseas posts. Consultation teams use it to run statutory and public consultations with a defensible record of everyone.

Is Jambo available on G-Cloud?
Yes. Jambo is listed on the G-Cloud 15 framework. UK public sector organisations can find and buy Jambo through the Digital Marketplace.
Can we buy Jambo without running a full tender?

Yes. Because Jambo is on G-Cloud 15, UK public sector buyers can award a call-off contract through the Digital Marketplace without running a full open tender. G-Cloud is run by the Government Commercial Agency (GCA), formerly the Crown Commercial Service.

What is G-Cloud 15, and how does it help us buy stakeholder management software?

G-Cloud 15 is the current version of the UK government's framework for buying cloud services, run by the GCA. It replaces G-Cloud 14, which closes on 28 October 2026. Buyers search the Digital Marketplace, compare suppliers, and award a call-off contract, which is faster than an open procurement process.

How does Jambo help a consultation stand up to judicial review?

A consultation can be quashed by judicial review if it fails the Gunning Principles. Jambo keeps one auditable record of every consultation from the formative stage to the decision, so you can show you gave sufficient reasons, allowed adequate time, and conscientiously considered responses before deciding. When a decision is challenged, the record is ready.

How does Jambo help evidence conscientious consideration?

Conscientious consideration, the fourth Gunning Principle, is the hardest to prove, because it means showing you genuinely considered every response before deciding. Jambo logs every response in one place and records how it was reviewed and fed into the decision, so you can demonstrate consideration on the record rather than asserting it.

Can Jambo help answer an FOI request about a consultation?

Yes. FOI (Freedom of Information) makes engagement records disclosable, and requests are subject to deadlines. Because Jambo stores the full consultation history in a single searchable system, you can produce a complete, accurate record quickly instead of reconstructing it from inboxes and spreadsheets.

Is a spreadsheet enough to manage a public consultation?

For a small, one-off consultation, maybe. For statutory consultations that have to withstand judicial review and FOI, a spreadsheet is a risk: responses get lost, there's no audit trail, and you can't easily prove conscientious consideration. Jambo gives you a single defensible record designed for exactly that scrutiny.

Does Jambo support the public sector equality duty (PSED)?

Yes. Jambo gives you a complete, auditable record of who you engaged and how, which supports demonstrating that you met your obligations under the public sector equality duty as part of your consultation.

Is Jambo secure enough for sensitive stakeholder and consultation data?

Jambo is UK-hosted, Cyber Essentials certified, holds ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 27017:2015, and is UK GDPR compliant. Jambo Secure AI doesn't train on customer data. It includes role-based access controls, MFA, SSO and a dedicated Information Security Officer.

What kind of consultation reports can Jambo produce?

Jambo lets teams generate reports that show who was consulted, how engagement was conducted, what feedback was received, how stakeholder input informed decisions, and the full history of a consultation to support statutory and regulatory requirements.

How does Jambo support continuity when team members leave?

Jambo retains a complete, centralised history of every consultation, so critical knowledge is not lost when team members leave or change roles. This protects institutional memory across long-running consultations and major projects.

Can Jambo integrate with existing public sector tools?

Yes. Jambo integrates with Outlook via a free add-in, logs emails from other providers, such as Gmail, through the project email address feature, connects to Esri ArcGIS Pro, and links to more than 7,000 apps through Zapier, including MailChimp, Google Sheets, and SurveyMonkey. A public API is available to connect Jambo with other business systems.

What is stakeholder relationship management (SRM) software?
SRM software keeps a shared record of every conversation an organisation has with its stakeholders, across every team that talks to them. Unlike a CRM, which is built to move contacts through a sales pipeline, SRM is built for long-running relationships with many people on both sides. Jambo is an SRM software platform used by UK public-sector teams, including the Low Carbon Contracts Company and the University of Cambridge.
How can a government department see everything it has said to a stakeholder?
Only if every conversation is logged in one shared place. In most departments, stakeholder emails sit in individual inboxes, so pulling together a full history takes days. Jambo logs emails through a free Outlook add-in and through a project email address for Gmail and other providers, alongside meetings and calls. Anyone with access can open a stakeholder or organisation and view the full history in a single view.
Why doesn't Salesforce or Microsoft Dynamics work for managing stakeholder relationships?
A CRM is the right tool for moving a contact through a deal to close. Stakeholder relationships in government don't close. Teams that use a CRM for this often find adoption stays low and the record stays incomplete. Jambo's records, tagging and reporting are designed around relationships, not a sales funnel.
How do we spot the issues stakeholders keep raising?
Jambo uses AI to summarise communications and auto-tag them against the tags your team defines, so a theme gets picked up wherever it's mentioned. You can filter by tag, then review tags at the project level or across the whole department to see which issues keep coming up.
Can managers check that the team followed up with stakeholders?
Yes. You can assign follow-up tasks to team members, so every agreed-upon next step has an owner. Because every communication is logged in the shared record, managers can see what's been said to each stakeholder without having to chase inboxes.
How do we know how a stakeholder relationship is going?
AI sentiment analysis scores each communication, and you can review overall sentiment across a stakeholder's or an organisation's communications. Teams that want a formal rating can add a relationship health score as a custom field.

Want to find out if Jambo is the right stakeholder management software for your department or team?

Book a 15-minute call to discuss your stakeholder relationship management challenges and needs. We would like to help you figure out whether Jambo is the right stakeholder management software for your team.