Civil society now expects this kind of sense‑making . The U.S. is adopting it too: Bowling Green, Kentucky’s What Could Bowling Green Be? initiative uses the same code (Google Jigsaw sense‑making + Polis) for bridging conversations. Work is underway to roll out similar bridge‑making in all 435 U.S. congressional districts. The goal is to show it’s faster than regular polling, as rigorous , and far more generative — because, while standard polls force you into a few bits (YIMBY vs. NIMBY), deliberative methods are generative, transformative and deliberative .