From citizen voices to a shared idea.
Bema turns scattered ideas into clear, well-supported proposals. The pilot is non-binding: it carries the signal to the competent authority to listen and respond.
See Cardedeu liveLike a flight aggregator, but for citizen ideas.
Bema gathers a community’s dispersed knowledge and turns it into useful signal. Ideas are judged on content, never on who says them: overlaps merge, moderation is drawn by lot, and sustained support is what counts.
Collect
Open a channel so local knowledge and concrete needs can surface.
Distil
Remove repetition and noise to preserve the useful core of each idea.
Converge
Concentrate support on clear proposals — a genuinely shared intelligence.
Immediate reaction, identity, virality, conflict.
Judgement: context, synthesis, and collective usefulness.
From idea to action, in five steps.
Each mechanism corrects a specific democratic failure.
Propose
One well-considered proposal a month, with guides that help you structure the problem, solution and beneficiaries.
Discover
AI surfaces similar proposals: join forces instead of fragmenting support.
Moderate
Seven random citizens evaluate the proposal blindly, without knowing who wrote it.
Build conviction
Support sustained over time weighs more than last-minute surges.
Escalate
With enough consensus, the proposal reaches the administration with its full trail documented.
The proposals list is available after sign-in.
Five answers to known failures.
Scarcity as value
Limited quotas and attention budgets force reflection and eliminate spam.
Structural depolarisation
Proposals are evaluated blindly: judged on merit, not authorship.
Sortition democracy
Rotating citizen panels chosen by lot — no self-appointed gatekeepers.
Influence without false promises
Bema makes consensus visible and escalates it; the administration takes on the commitment, if it wishes, explicitly.
Simple surface, hidden robustness
A clean interface up front; brigading detection and audit trails behind it.
Bema carries forward the principles of the Athenian Assembly — sortition, equal voice, merit — while correcting the exclusions of the original.
Discover the full visionDemocracy is a practice, not a product.
Join the pilot and help define it — starting with your community.
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