ConsentIQ · Case studies
Why I built ConsentIQ
By Joseph Ellul, founder of ConsentIQ · 19 October 2026
The morning after a night out in Townsville, the police rang. My mate was being held on sexual assault charges, and they wanted me down at the station.
The night before
My mate and I met two women up from Brisbane for the weekend. We were buying them drinks. They were buying us drinks. Around midnight she announced, loud enough for the whole bar to hear, that she was taking my mate home, and exactly what she planned to do with him. Then she took his hand, walked him out the door and into a cab.
A whole bar heard her say it. Not one word of it counted.
The morning after
By morning it didn't matter what was said at midnight. It didn't matter who led who out the door. It was her word against his, and my mate was the one under arrest.
The charges were eventually dropped. That doesn't undo the arrest, or the fear of losing everything over one night. It shook him badly, and I watched it happen.
Why a record made at the time matters
Nobody else was behind that door. Words in a bar aren't a record of what two people agreed later that night, so it came down to one word against another. That's a terrible place for both people to be.
With nothing but memories, when it's he said vs she said, we all know what happens. Look at my mate.
So I built ConsentIQ. A clear yes or a respected no, made at the time.
How ConsentIQ helps
ConsentIQ gives both people a clear record of what was agreed, made at the time. You start a session in your web browser and show a QR code. The other person scans it on their own phone, with no app or account, and records their own yes or no. You see one result on screen: consent granted, or not granted. The video is never sent to anyone, and it stays encrypted and private.
A no is recorded just as clearly, and respected. Consent can be withdrawn at any time, and a record doesn't guarantee any legal outcome.