In the modern world, the sheer scale of human organizations has become overwhelming. The average Fortune 1000 company employs more than 30,000 people, with functional teams often numbering in the hundreds. Government and defense organizations are even larger. Yet, despite the common refrain that an organization’s most valuable asset is the intelligence and creativity of its people, we currently lack the ability to enable teams of even a dozen people to hold thoughtful, productive conversations. Instead, we rely on message-passing within rigid hierarchies, with insight and reasoning lost at each layer. We can also use polls and surveys to capture input at scale, but this strips away the nuance of human wisdom and eliminates the key element of group conversation: interactive deliberation. The value of a real-time discussion is that individuals can build on others’ ideas by debating options, offering new evidence, and converging on solutions that would not have emerged from any one person alone.  Even worse than polls or message-passing, a new trend is to use AI to capture input from individuals through …