Visualize your understanding.
Thinking about problems can be tricky, but it doesn't have to be. Ameliorate provides a structure to help you break down a problem, along with features for organizing, navigating, and discussing that information, so that it's easier to grasp, align with others, and ultimately make better decisions.
Break things down
Check out Getting Started for a more detailed explanation of the core ideas.
Build a diagram
Break down problems and solutions into parts that can be considered individually, or together.
Add nuance
For any individual part of the diagram, add things like how important you think it is and why, or questions that would be good to answer.
Work Constructively
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.
Organize, navigate, and focus discussion
Check out the docs for more features.
Summarize tradeoffs between solutions
Show how important you think each tradeoff is, and how well each solution fulfills that tradeoff.
Focus on different aspects
Create views to highlight specific parts of the diagram.
Move through complex diagrams
Use flashlight mode to easily explore large diagrams.
Quickly identify where you disagree
Compare scores to efficiently understand where your opinions lie in relation to others.
Ameliorate is constantly improving
and would love your feedback! Check out what's coming up in the backlog.
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