Mutually understand tough problems.
Ameliorate provides a structure for representing how you understand problems and solutions, as well as features for organizing, navigating, and discussing that information, so that you can convey the nuance of your thoughts with accuracy and with ease.
Represent your understanding
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 specific part of the diagram, add opinion, justification, questions, relevant facts and sources, or even just open up discussion about it.
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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