How could Catalyst (and other distributed organizations) be better, more efficient, more resource-conscious (money, time, requirements, etc.) for Catalyst itself and for the Proposer's community?

By deploying a refinement + consent process per proposal. What is that?

In a single session, creators present the details of a proposal and a diverse group of people deploy their distributed intelligence in search of objections. Those objections are the feedback that the proposers take to refine their proposal.

What are objections? A gift from the gods. Reasoned objections that identify risks that could prevent the proposal from being carried out efficiently.

:chart_with_upwards_trend: Benefits:

  • No barrier to entry to submit proposals
  • No barrier to entry to join the consent group (and no limit to the number of people in the group)
  • No more Reviewing process before voting
  • Goodbye to uncertainty injected into the voting process: each proposal stands on its own merits
  • Welcome to an era of Catalyst decision-making, where Catalyst evolves from its current form (a set of rounds) into a sustainable collective brain that reacts quickly to opportunities and changes in the environment.

Why are we so confident it could work? As the think tank that we are, Gimbalabs has been putting this refinement + consent process into practice at Gimbalabs Open Space (every Thursday, 14:30 UTC) for months now, and the result is: a better vision for our survival as an organization in the long term.

The following short is from today’s session: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxMlJm2ND88ePLpmYl-C5QcE_NxhpEJEEl?si=hyMuifm9N7cFwgIx