Get Insights to Make Better Decisions Compare pros and cons of your options. Get experts, team members and customers to tell you what matters.
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Start with the Question you're Deciding On
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Invite People who can Give Good Advice
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Gather Suggestions & Perspectives
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Understand how your Options Compare
What's Unique?
- Gather Perspectives
- Gather input and insights about each of your options.
- Get Suggestions
- Your "helpers" can suggest alternative options and decision criteria.
- "Construct" a Best Option from Rationale
- Poll, survey and discuss your decision to "build" a best option.
- Quantifiably Compare Options
- Voting on the importance of pros and cons for each option builds an "option strength" score.
- Build a Summarized Report
- Bullet point-sized input generates a summarized report of each option in realtime.
- Choose your Crowd
- Gather inputs from Customers, Team Members, Advisors, Friends, an Audience, or the CrowdMind network.
- Hosted Software as a Service for Sensitive Data
- Create private, hosted "groups" to brainstorm personal, or business decisions without the need to install any software.
- Share your Outcome
- Automatically publish to the web, or embed the results on a blog or website to show readers and customers (coming soon!)
- Understand Options with Existing Web Content
- Sift through content on the web to help understand your options (Amazon Reviews, Twitter, Wikipedia, Pictures, Videos, Data/Charts and more - coming soon!)
What might you use this for?
- Collaborate with Co-workers
- Gather decision insights using the best thinking of your coworkers - e.g., strengths and weaknesses of a business strategy, choose between designs, etc
- Make your Business Pitch
- Compare yourself to key competitors - explaining their weaknesses, and your advantages
- Gather Perspectives from your Network
- e.g., Will the new Apple tablet be disruptive? What's the best Twitter app on the iPhone?
- Find the Best Choice for a Personal Decision
- e.g., Where should we go on our honeymoon? What handbag should I get for the summer? Which neighborhood should I move to in Chicago?
- Create SEO'd Content with your Followers
- Use your blog, twitter, or facebook network to turn your conversation into an answer for someone on the web
Team
The CrowdMind team is co-located between Richesh's parent's basement in D.C., and Blake's living room in Atlanta, GA. We get on a Skype video chat to cowork everyday!
We love working on CrowdMind, and love it even more when we hear feedback! Leave some feedback with the link at the top of the page if you want to tell us something, or email us at cm at crowdmind.com.
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Blake Byrnes - Cofounder, CEO, Developer
Blake spent the first part of his career as a Manager with Accenture. He loves to come up with ideas, and worries that working at home with his golden retriever puppy has tainted his future ability to work in an office. His work at Accenture helped produce 19 patents pending spanning Mobile and Server technologies.
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Richesh Ruchir - Cofounder, CTO, Developer
Richesh has held Technical Architect positions at Accenture and Booz Allen Hamilton. Rich's unofficial claim to fame is kicking himself for having built, invented and then let sit his own Digg and Flickr. As a consultant, he provided technical expertise to industry leading clients such as Goldman Sachs, and Kaplan



