What if it was trivial to understand someone's reasoning, and to add yours to it?
here's what the world could look like
Ameliorate aims to make this a reality. It proposes a way of breaking down problems that's particularly built for collaborative refinement, and provides tooling for navigating and working with that information.
Break things down
Lay out causes and effects, showing exactly how situations can be improved. This creates a concrete visual in which discussion can be grounded.
See ontology for an interactive visual of all information types in Ameliorate
See the potential
Critique and improve school legislation. Ameliorate is well-suited for visualizing proposals that have a few pieces, causes, and effects to consider.
See in the app: sb74-free-school-meals
Some cool features
Create views to highlight specific parts of the diagram.
Using your diagram
Once you've got your diagram, there are a few different ways you can use it.
Grasp your own thoughts
Lay out your ideas with all of their nuance to better think through a problem and make better decisions for yourself.
Solicit feedback
Send out your diagram for others to leave their feedback on - their questions, suggestions, concerns, and opinions.
Guide discussion
Bring your diagram to a meeting to make it easy to keep the discussion focused, knowing precisely where disagreements or uncertainties lie.
Bring others up-to-speed
Present your diagram or let others click around at their own pace to efficiently catch up about the current state of a problem or solution.
Re-visit reasoning
When new information is discovered, update an old diagram and reconsider it anew.
Create decision transparency
Leave behind a scored diagram after a decision is made, as an explanation of why the decision was the way it was.
Ameliorate is constantly improving
and would love your feedback! Check out what's coming up in the backlog.
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