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The four-output deliberation kit

A deliberation build ships as a kit: the app, a timeboxed facilitation agenda, an outreach plan, and a printable flyer with a QR code. Programs without software are valid deliberation builds too.

What a deliberation build produces, so the software never arrives alone:

  1. The app: the tool that serves the stage(s) named, with ground rules on the page, plain language, a named host, and Export results.
  2. program/agenda.md: a timeboxed facilitation agenda with the tension and the starting prompts written in; small-group formats over open microphones.
  3. program/outreach.md: who invites whom, where flyers go, which doors get knocked, which languages, and the weekly rhythm for whoever keeps organizing between sessions.
  4. materials/flyer.html: a standalone printable flyer with inline styles and room for a QR code to the tool.

Bridge on-land and online in both directions: the flyer carries the block in; a printable summary carries the conversation back to the bulletin board. Say who was heard and who was not wherever results appear, and treat early rounds as growing the corpus, not settling the question.

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