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GENERATIVE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

AI has a blind spot.
It doesn't know what your people know.

Generative AI is powerful — but it's trained on data, not on the collective knowledge of your team. CrowdSmart's Generative Collective Intelligence (GCI) is an entirely new AI paradigm that integrates human intelligence with Generative AI. It unlocks the distributed expertise inside your teams, turning it into decisions you can act on with confidence — at any scale.

A new wave of AI

Generative AI makes everyone equally smart.
GCI makes your organization smarter than any model.

GCI turns your team's distributed expertise into decisions you can act on — working alongside your AI agents, using your existing AI models, and getting smarter with every session.

GENERATIVE AI
Generates plausible text

Predicts the next likely token from training data

Trained on historical data

Generic knowledge, not current context

One model, one voice

Single perspective, no structured disagreement

Confident even when wrong

No provenance, no reasoning chain, no uncertainty

Creates possible ideas to consider

Ideas and options are not curated

GENERATIVE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
Generates collective insight from deliberative conversations

Orchestrates human and AI reasoning to surface shared intelligence

Built on your organization's expertise

Private data, your people's knowledge, your context

Many minds, structured disagreement

Cognitive diversity preserved, not averaged away

Transparent reasoning with full provenance

Every insight traces to specific reasons and contributors

Trusted decision intelligence

Ideas are reviewed and priorized for a specific decision

Broad range of use cases

GCI is consistently accurate across multiple categories

Investing in innovation

Orchestrated 30+ evaluators simultaneously. Identity-blind peer review eliminated politics. Bayesian belief networks surfaced non-obvious risk.

Titan Fund

High-stakes decision making

AI agents and human experts reasoned together under adversarial conditions. Deliberation Conductor ensured maximum cognitive diversity in argument coverage.

NATO

Organizational transformation

Unlimited participants, zero pre-training. Anonymous contributions created candor. Persistent models of institutional thinking evolved over time.

Alera Group

Envisioning new futures

Structured collective foresight at scale. Diverse perspectives were synthesized into actionable shared vision.

90_10 Institute

Proven predictive power

Startup success predicted at nearly 2x industry standard.

1.9x
CrowdSmart-evaluated startups survived at nearly twice the rate of the industry benchmark.
CrowdSmart
71%
Carta 2018 cohort
38%
Based on 21 companies evaluated over 7 years.
CROWDSMART COHORT EXAMPLE

GCI co-created a leader in Edge AI - Syntiant

In 2017, CrowdSmart's collective evaluation scored Syntiant at 93% pROI — years before the market caught up. Today Syntiant has deployed 100M+ edge AI processors across 4 continents and is approaching a $1B valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO.

8.44x
projected return multiple
93%
pROI predicted in 2017
2017
CrowdSmart evaluation: 93% pROI. 30+ expert evaluators.
2019
Series B. Intel Capital, Microsoft M12 invest.
2023
$56.4M Series C. 100M processor deployments.
2024
$150M Knowles acquisition. NatSec100 listing.
2027
IPO track. ~$1B valuation.

Based on CrowdSmart's evaluation of 21 companies over a seven year period.

How GCI works

Neuroscience. Information physics. Spectral graph theory. Combined for the first time.

How your organization's knowledge becomes a decision. Click each stage. Hover over technical terms for plain-English translations.

01
Frame the question
Context Manager
02
Contribute reasoning
Semantic embedding
03
Deliberation Conductor
Fisher-Rao distance
04
Peer review & bridges
Dynamically learns from interactions
05
Collective insight
Continuously learns what is resonating

The scaling problem

CrowdSmart's GCI radically reduces collaboration complexity. Collaboration is no longer limited to small groups.

Drag the slider to see how collaboration complexity grows exponentially, as people are added. CrowdSmart helps groups of any size invent and align.

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TRADITIONAL COLLABORATION

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CROWDSMART

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Scientific foundation

Developed with the pioneers of collective intelligence

A peer-reviewed framework built with researchers at Michigan, MIT, BCG, and Xerox PARC.

Scott Page
University of Michigan
Cognitive diversity theory.
Author of The Diversity Bonus
Alex Pentland
MIT Media Lab
Social physics.
Computational social science
Martin Reeves
BCG Henderson Institute
Strategy science.
Biological systems thinking
John Seely Brown
Xerox PARC · Amazon Board
Organizational learning.
Co-founder, Common Good AI
Tom Kehler
CrowdSmart · UC Berkeley
50+ years in AI.
Founder of IntelliCorp (first AI IPO)
Kim Polese
CrowdSmart
Technology entrepreneurship.
AI and organizational innovation
Read the paper on Amplifying Human Co-Creativity arXiv 2505.19167 — Generative Collective Intelligence → BROOKINGS paper Three Principles Growing an AI ecosystem that works for people and planet Can AI Fight Corporate Groupthink? An Interview with Kim Polese The Irreplaceable Value of Human Decision-Making in the Age of AI Martin Reeves AI’s missing ingredient: Shared wisdom Sandy Pentland Predicting Startup Funding Momentum A 2018 Paper on Predicting Startup Survivability

You already have the intelligence.
CrowdSmart unlocks it

Integrate Agentic AI with your team's expertise

Easy to get started. No pre-training required.

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