A shared space for civic dialogue

Disagree better.
Discover common ground.

A better place for political disagreement: open debate, thoughtful facilitation, and conversations you can revisit.

Discover and join debate forums around civic and policy issues, or create your own to bring people together for structured discussion. Explore the archive to revisit summaries, transcripts, viewpoints, unanswered questions, and publicly shared conversations.

Open the Socrates AI facilitator beside Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or Google Meet. Socrates follows the conversation in real time, adds useful context, highlights different perspectives, and steps in when it can help move the discussion forward. Each participant connects their own microphone, allowing Socrates to identify speakers and combine everyone’s contributions into one shared, ordered conversation.

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The Socrates archive

Conversations worth revisiting

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Socrates synthesis

Where the conversation landed

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Questions worth carrying forward

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