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How a community rehearses its own future

Participatory scenario planning in nine steps, drafted by AI and argued over by the people who live with the answer.

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Cycle Stepper

Riverside Community Trust

Autumn cycle · Nonprofit · 11 members

1 Vision 2 Stakeholders 3 Assumptions 4 Trends 5 Scenarios 6 Judgment 7 Decisions 8 Constraints 9 Learning

You are on step 5. Two members have not rated the scenarios yet.

First cycle

You start by editing a draft

Five fields in, and every step comes back drafted at once.

Stakeholders, assumptions, trends, scenarios, metrics, decisions and constraints
Phrased for a congregation, a housing program or a co-op
Nothing is saved until you accept it

First Cycle Preview

5 stakeholders with impact ratings

Drafted

3 assumptions, each with an experiment

Drafted

4 trends across PESTLE categories

Drafted

3 scenarios from 2 axes of uncertainty

Drafted

5 metrics and 4 constraints

Drafted

Nothing is saved until you accept it.

Member Ratings

"Younger families will return if we change the schedule"

2.4 average of 9 members

How the 9 rated it

Widest disagreement in this cycle. Worth an hour.

Ratings

The spread, not the agreement the room performed

Members score each assumption and scenario privately, before the meeting.

A quiet two against a room of fours shows on screen
Comments, replies and upvotes on every artifact

Scenarios

Two uncertainties, three futures

Name what will shape the next year. Nobody has to predict which future arrives.

Trends across all six PESTLE categories, from whoever noticed them
A threshold on every signal that says when to reopen a decision

Scenarios and Signals

Axes of uncertainty

Whether state funding holds × How fast the neighborhood changes

Steady Ground

Funding holds, population stable

Same Money, Different People

Funding holds, demand shifts north

The Squeeze

Funding falls, demand rises

Tracked signal

State funding formula under review. Threshold: a published draft that changes the per-household rate.

Decision Record

Move the food program to the north site

Pivot

Demand moved north two years ago and the current site is running at half capacity.

Also considered: run both sites, partner locally, wait a year

Dissent kept: the families who rely on the current site cannot travel.

Decisions

Decisions that hold up three years from now

Persevere, adjust, pause or pivot, each with a written reason.

What you chose, what you considered instead, and who disagreed
Three dissenting perspectives before you commit
The note to members, board or funders, drafted afterwards

Carryover

Nothing resets when the cycle closes

An untested assumption or an unresolved trend opens the next cycle, still waiting.

Start the next cycle with everything, or only what you flagged
Each cycle links to the one before it

Carryover Queue

Autumn cycle closing Winter cycle opening

State funding formula under review

Trend

Volunteers can cover a second site

Assumption

Revisit the north site decision

Decision

All three open the next cycle, still unresolved.

Step 7: Decisions

Generate decision options

5 credits

Strategic challenge

5 credits

Pivot diagnostic

8 credits

Draft the message

5 credits

"Anything the AI should know that it cannot see?"

Balance after this run: 412 credits

AI that drafts, then gets out of the way

Every generate button shows its cost and your balance first
Add a focus, a tone, or something it could not know
It never scores your options or tells you what to decide

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Connection

Help people find their way in, find support, and find each other.

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Learning

Share what people know, study as a group, make sense of the world.

Course Creation Workshop Hosting Peer Study Groups Wisdom Sharing Collective Insight Scenario Planning Trends Analysis Shared Job Search Community Newsroom Youth Learning Paths Mentoring Programs Reading Together

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