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.

problem solving diagram

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.

free-school-meals diagram

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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Understand ourselves.

Understand each other.

Grow together.