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About VoteSmash
A consensus intelligence platform.
Why VoteSmash?
Many groups don't find it easy to reach agreements.
Meetings produce summaries written by whoever held the pen. Polls flatten nuance into multiple choice options. The loudest voice tends to win, while the quiet majority never registers.
VoteSmash is built for a different kind of signal. A group comes together around a single lead question, topic and event title. Everyone writes their best claim(s) about it and submits it for everyone to see. Then everyone votes for the claims they genuinely agree with and try to orally persuade others of what they find agreeable or disagreeable in people's claims. What survives that process counts as a consensus for claims that 85% or more of the room can stand behind.
The result is a record of what the group actually thinks through what they voted for and made claims about, with their public name or private pseudonym on it.
What is VoteSmash?
VoteSmash is a structured deliberation platform for virtual boardrooms, classrooms, auditoriums, and communities. Groups come together around a challenging question and topic, share their best claims about it pseudonymously or anonymously, and vote on the claims of others to find what the room actually agrees and disagrees on, and what ‘near misses’ were identified.
Everyone puts their best claim(s) on the table in the plainest and most coherent language possible to see if the room will agree with them. If a minimum viable consensus (MVC) is reached, then all competitors who bought a tour entry ticket and participated receive a small meso-payment as a prize.
The winner(s) come(s) from a process of challenge and deliberation that, while maintaining individual users' privacy of thought, expression and identity in a group setting.
How it works
Tour Profile Survey
A short set of questions grounds the room. Takes two minutes. Earns back up to 30% of the ticket price.
Claims
Make your best claim(s) in up to 200 characters. Clear, plain and compelling language. No jargon. Directly addressing the Tour title, Lead Question and/or Topic. Add a Confidence Rating to track Prediction Accuracy and for a chance to win a prize.
Vote
Read this Tour's claims. Vote: Agree, Disagree, or Needs Work. Claims that reach 85% agreement become a Tour consensus and everybody wins a reward.
Deliberate & Persuade
Challenge claims, refine ideas and respond to objections. Participants in a live event Tour conversation attempt to persuade the Audience and to strengthen various claims until broader agreement emerges. Audience live chat comments welcome too.
Results
What the room agreed on. Rewards for claim winners and all participants present when one or more MVCs was reached. Prize pool distributed to leading or unique participant contributions.
Two ways to participate
Free
- • Join any open tour at no cost as a Cooperator
- • Submit one claim (up to 3 claims for private demos)
- • Vote on however many claims you want (off-chain)
- • Your voice counts towards the consensus
- • Not eligible for rewards & prizes pool
Ticket holder
- • Purchase or redeem a Tour ticket
- • Everything free participants get
- • Submit up to 3 claims (* depends on Tour format)
- • Eligible for the rewards & prizes pool
- • Claims recorded to the public ledger
Writing a good claim
The strongest claims are the ones the room can stand behind. When you submit a claim, you're not arguing a position — you're offering a statement that other people can genuinely agree with.
A good claim submission:
Is concise and clear. It does not exhibit needless repetition. Say what you mean in the fewest words that preserve the meaning.
Builds on widely available knowledge. It draws on evidence, facts, information, experiences, or skills that are accessible even to people without professional or specialized knowledge in the subject area.
Is hard to argue against. No major counterarguments appear readily available. If someone can easily poke a hole in it, it probably needs work.
Appeals to both heart and mind. It offers something for both passionate and fact-based thinkers, which leads to deep thinking about the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the claim.
Where the money goes
When a Tour has a ticket price, the revenue forms a prize pool. 75% goes to participants. 25% goes to VoteSmash.
The first 30% goes to every participant who completes the Tour profile survey questions. This is the earn-back: you get paid for showing up prepared.
Another 30% goes to the authors of winning claims — the ideas that 85% of the room supported. This is the play-to-win incentive: write something the existing Tour audience can stand behind, and you're rewarded.
The remaining participant share covers ambassador rewards to promote Topics & Communities and activity bonuses for voting, unique or valued commenting, and engagement during the session.
Sponsors can add incentive to the pool to attract more claims, voices and votes. Their contributions boost all payouts proportionally bringing more money for participants, same percentages to express themselves on the title, topic and lead question.
Payment rails
Vote Smash supports multiple payment methods. We display payment performance data among fees, speed, and minimum amount for send/receive. It's up to participants to choose how they prefer to pay and participate. The options may carry a different user experience due to off-chain and on-chain economies.
Stripe (Credit Card)
Off-chain
USD$
~3% fee
Instant
CAD$
~3% fee
Instant
On-chain
MNEE$ ERC-20
~$0.50–2.00 fee
~15 seconds
CADC$ ERC-20
~$0.50–2.00 fee
~15 seconds
On-chain
MNEE$ 1Sat
~$0.01 fee
Instant (zero confirmations)
Satoshis
< $0.01 fee
Instant (zero confirmations)
All prices are displayed in USD. The platform aims for easy payment method bridging Web2 and Web3.
Who it's for
VoteSmash works for any group, association, organization or community that needs to move from ideas and opinions to agreement that paves the way for actions.
Classrooms
Students practice constructing and evaluating arguments with the help of teachers to hone and improve claims. The structure keeps discussions productive with concrete results.
Auditoria
A facilitator in an auditorium poses a question, a tour profile survey, and set of basic claims and the room responds. By the end, a clear record exists of what the group agreed on, what was a near miss, and what was rejected.
Communities
National associations, neighborhood groups, student unions, professional associations, online communities and anyone who seeks to surface genuine agreement and better understand disagreement on a shared question and topic.
Boardrooms
Companies and organizations fund tours on topics they care about. They gain unpredictable yet structured insight from real deliberation, not surveys or focus groups, and accessing new market research segments.
The best way to understand VoteSmash is to join or promote & witness a tour.
Get in touch
Interested in running a tour, sponsoring a topic, or just learning more? Send us a note.