The software we use is from James Fishkin’s lab at Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab. It is a deliberative polling system. Functionally, it is like Zoom with breakouts of 10 people each (say, 45 rooms at once), but the software facilitates — no human moderator. It reminds quiet people to speak up, limits disruptive interjections to a few seconds, provides real‑time transcripts and runs quick quorum checks to see if groups are ready to move on — like an advanced chess clock that carries conversation guides to their logical extreme.