Decide together. Remember why.

Solvocracy groups are private places where a group works out what to do. Every question, every proposal and every reason stays on the record, so a decision still makes sense a year from now.

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How a decision moves through it

  1. Someone asks a question. "How many productions should our season hold?" It publishes into your group's historical hierarchy of questions and solutions. We call this hierarchy of questions and solutions your group's canopy.

  2. People propose answers. Anyone can write one. Rival answers sit side by side, and each one says why it answers the question.

  3. The group weighs in, with reasons. Every point for or against carries a short reason, pinned to the words it is about. If you can make a proposal better, you suggest the change, and when it goes in you are credited as a co-author.

  4. The group decides. A yes or no vote, a vote between rivals, or a quiet "unless someone objects by Friday." A yes can come with a condition: yes, if this change goes in.

  5. The decision is recorded. What was decided, what the group learned getting there, and what happens next. Who is doing what. A date to look at it again, if you want one.

At any point, anyone can revisit the decision and its reasoning.

How it works, in full

a questionHow do we make our playhouse the most entertaining, welcoming and financially sound theatre in the county?
a questionHow many productions should our season hold?
a proposed answerFive, set each February with the budgetPassed
  • Setting the number with the budget means we never announce a show we cannot pay for.
  • Five is more than our volunteer crew has ever built in one year.
a proposed answerFour, and one of them a musical
a questionShould one night a week be pay what you can?
Wrenfield Playhouse, the example the handbook uses

Made for groups that decide things together

Housing co-ops and cohousing communities. Makerspaces and member co-ops. Granges, halls and clubs with committees. Nonprofits with a working board. Any group with a known membership that makes real decisions and wants to remember them.

It is not a chat app, and it does not run your projects. It is where your decisions get made and kept.

It can take the place of the endless meetings. A question is asked once, everyone weighs in when they can, and the vote closes on a date instead of at the end of a long evening.

Is it for your group?

Your group's work stays with your group

Your group is invite-only, and only its members can see what is in it. We don't share your group's private data with anyone.

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Solvocracy is looking for groups willing to help Solvocracy become the best product it can be. If you think your group is a good candidate for early adoption, please reach out to us and tell us who you are.