Building common ground
for the common good

We help communities tackle hard problem and collaborate at scale using pro-social digital tools and deliberative processes.

We turn many voices into a shared direction because we start from a simple insight: the people closest to a problem are the most invested in solving it.

That’s why we design end-to-end engagements that help groups contribute ideas, listen deeply, and make decisions together; we go beyond surveys and polling to structured dialogue and collective decision-making.

We create participatory, inclusive processes for groups to identify shared values and priorities so people can create collective action. We believe technology should strengthen the fabric of our communities—not unravel it.

We need new tools to discover shared values
and co-create solutions.

In this current political climate, imagine if we could use AI technology to bring citizens together at scale to collaborate and find solutions to problems in their community. For example, we could ask:

What will improve access to essential health care for families?
How can we decrease gun violence in our schools to make them safer?
What will address homelessness in our city?
How does our neighborhood need to adapt due to climate change?
What projects do you want the city or state to fund?

Example Initiatives

Defines shared priorities and actions

Residents in Michigan determined spending priorities for their city budget–and then collectively advocated to local government

Creates alignment to inform social change

Citizens in Ontario shared barriers to healthcare access and generated recommendations–that informed advocacy to provincial health authorities

Enables community problem solving

In a large Midwestern city dealing with gun violence, the community shared personal experiences–and identified root causes and potential actions

"So what has become clear to me in this is even with ten people responding, using this technology is quite remarkable, the level of both interaction on common ground and the quality of the responses here."

— Discussion facilitator
"It's not just magical, it's actually incredibly powerful how it's taken all this information and brought it together. I was quite resistant to going into using [an AI platform] and then I went in and ranked the information. Having done that a couple of times now, it's actually really fun and super interesting to see what emerges."

— Platform participant
"What we need to do is wrap our arms around technology that leans us into a sense of the common good and that's human centric. It feels like we are doing that with this technology."

— Platform participant