Village
Demonstration

This is a demonstration. The Kōwhai Corner Food Co-op, its members and every word on this floor are fictional, written to show the mechanism. The mechanism — ideas in members' own words, member-controlled attribution, protected values-objections, a synthesis with no score — is exactly how Open Floor works. Everything on this page stays in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.

Listen · Open Floor · demo

Everyone says it in their own words.
Nothing gets averaged away.

Watch a fictional food co-op work through a contested question on a real Open Floor — then flip to the synthesis and see what most tools would have flattened into a score, kept whole instead.

  • Members-only — a floor is visible to a community's members, no one else
  • No score of any kind — no engagement index, no percentages, no averages
  • Ideas are grouped under the tags members chose themselves; nothing is scored, ranked or decided by the grouping
Open floor · Kōwhai Corner Food Co-op

Do we take on a paid part-time coordinator?

Our last two volunteer coordinators have stood down worn out, and the winter roster has gaps every week. Should the co-op pay someone part-time to coordinate — and if so, how do we fund it, and what do we protect while we do it? Say it in your own words. If you can, tag the value you're protecting.

Opened by
Mere Waititi — co-op coordinator (owner)
Who can see it
All members of the co-op
Attribution
Each member chooses per contribution: own name, a pen name, or Anonymous
Status
Open — synthesis drafted 14 July

The same contributions, two views — the raw floor, and the map the AI draws from it.

The floor — every contribution, whole

    The endorse counts are this floor's actual tallies — Open Floor keeps no other numbers. Try the buttons: your clicks stay on this page.

    Add your own idea — try the mechanism

    Added to this page only. In the community app this posts to your community's floor, visible to its members.

    Three things to notice

    1. Attribution belongs to the author. Priya signs her name, "Winter Lettuce" writes under a pen name, and two members contribute as Anonymous — each chose, per contribution, and the choice holds through the synthesis.
    2. Gerald's objection survives. A values-objection is protected: it is held whole and attributed in the synthesis, in a section of its own. It cannot be outvoted off the page or averaged into anything.
    3. There is no score. No engagement index, no culture percentage, no sentiment gauge. Ideas grouped by theme, in their authors' words, with the disagreement kept — that's the whole output, and every member sees it, not just the committee.

    Where to next

    Open Floor is the lightest way to ask a group something. When a question needs more than asking, these do different jobs — and a Village often runs more than one.

    • Village Assembly — a motion, a consent poll, dissent kept beside the outcome, and a sealed record. For a decision that needs procedure.
    • Deliberation Village — for working a contested topic through before it becomes a motion: a shared cause-and-effect map, teams taking one strand each, tensions between them surfaced rather than smoothed, and a ratification by the whole membership.
    • Consolidated Village Consensus — the same question across many Villages, with each minority position kept whole.
    • The Deliberation Course — free, and it teaches the craft whether or not you use any of this software.
    • Pricing · every demo · the whole catalogue