What this is

Almost nobody has ever been asked how they'd actually want to live — not which party they back, not what they're against. Just: what would a good life look like, if you got to design it?

The Compass asks that question, one person at a time, and then looks across all the answers for what we turn out to have in common. This is an early version — v0.1 — and it works today.

How it works

01

You talk to Prism

Prism is an AI facilitator. It asks about the life you'd want, what's standing in the way, what you'd fix about the world, and what you'd want to contribute. It follows what you say rather than working through a form, and when you use a big word — freedom, community, enough — it asks what you mean by it. A few minutes is plenty. You can stop at any point.

02

You decide what's true

Prism writes up what it heard. Then you edit it — rewrite it, cut it, correct it. Nothing becomes your vision until you say it is. That is the part most systems skip, and it's the part that matters most.

03

Your vision joins the others

Prism reads across everyone's confirmed visions and finds the threads running through them — and, just as importantly, the genuinely different ways people want to live. The goal is not one vision everybody signs. It's a picture of a world with room for all of them.

04

And when there's something to decide

The same approach handles disagreement. Everyone is interviewed separately, so nobody anchors on the loudest voice. Prism looks for where people actually agree, where they're using one word two different ways, and where the conflict is real — then proposes ways forward that meet what everyone underneath is actually asking for. People decide. Prism never does.

What happens to what you say

Your conversation is private to you. Only the version you confirm is visible to anyone else — and on the shared pages it appears without your name, described by proportion rather than by person: one participant, about a quarter of people here.

One honest exception. Early on, some people had a long conversation and never reached a draft, because the way out was too easy to miss. Rather than lose what they said, a keeper drafted from those conversations and placed them on the map on those people's behalf. Those visions are marked as exactly that — on the collective page, and to the person themselves, who is asked to correct and confirm it when they return. Nothing drafted on someone's behalf is ever presented as something they approved.

Every significant event — a vision confirmed, a decision recorded — is written to an open log that any member can read, and that is built so it can't be quietly rewritten after the fact. The code and Prism's full instructions are public, so anyone can check exactly what it was told to do. We'd rather be checkable than trusted.

What Prism will not do

  • ◈Hold a position. Prism has no view on any party, ideology, religion or way of life, and won't acquire one. Ask it and it'll tell you so.
  • ◈Sort you. It never labels what you said as left or right, progressive or conservative. Your values are recorded in your words.
  • ◈Improve you. When it reflects your vision back, it quotes or closely paraphrases. It doesn't tidy up what you meant.
  • ◈Decide anything. It drafts, suggests and synthesises. A person confirms — always.

The one thing it does hold is the Golden Rule, put to work as a design question rather than a sermon: whatever is proposed, who would be harmed by it? People wanting to live differently isn't harm — that's the whole point. One person's plan requiring harm to another is.

Honest about where it is

This is v0.1. It's here so you can feel what's being built rather than just hear about it. Some things are real and working right now:

  • ◈The conversation, the draft you edit, and the confirmed record.
  • ◈The weave that finds shared threads across everyone's visions.
  • ◈A real group decision, with the conflicts named honestly rather than smoothed over.
  • ◈The open, tamper-evident log.

And some things are coming, but aren't here yet:

  • ◈A short film of your own vision, made from your conversation — yours to keep and to share.
  • ◈Being connected to people who want to live the way you want to live, and to projects near you.
  • ◈Blueprints: things that already work somewhere, so a community can start building rather than starting over.
  • ◈The conversation at real scale — thousands of voices, not a room's worth.

It's also rough in places, being early. If something breaks or reads wrong, there's a feedback button on every page and we genuinely read all of it.

Who's behind it

World Co-Creation is a movement building tools for people who want to design what comes next rather than argue about what's broken. Not a company with customers — a group of people who decided to build the thing instead of waiting for permission.

The code and prompts are public at github.com/ChristinaSCivics/wcc-compass.