Harmonica
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Imagine trying to finalize an important proposal, but every time a meeting is scheduled, half the team can’t attend, and the discussions get stuck in endless back-and-forth messages. Ultimately, crucial voices are missed, and reaching alignment feels impossible.*\n\n*Harmonica was created for precisely this challenge. It runs async workshops using GenAI to elicit responses from participants, synthesize & cross-pollinate them, and generate useful outputs (e.g. proposals, OKRs, roadmaps). No more missed voices or delays—just smooth, transparent coordination.*\n\n![image!](https://skilled-lime-cow.myfilebase.com/ipfs/QmQqafR9VeZVYEgXBjEcgMgc6woWkrNohtaLbnPGcC5xCj)\n\n## **About Harmonica**\n\nHarmonica is an open-source software (SaaS) designed to enhance sensemaking within teams and communities by facilitating async workshops. Using GenAI and conversational UX, Harmonica engages participants into 1:1 dialogues to gather and synthesize responses, thereby speeding up the co-creation of artifacts like proposals, OKRs, RFPs, roadmaps and other strategy documents without the need for sync workshops, surveys or forum discussions. This reduces conflict and improves engagement by allowing participants to express candid opinions, identify tensions and achieve alignment more efficiently.\n\n![image!](https://skilled-lime-cow.myfilebase.com/ipfs/Qmav8c65sf91FxFR7pRqyvZv6LynQjNXYFRjnqwJQq5AT8)\n\n## Who's the targeted user group and what's the need/problem being addressed?\nThe project primarily targets OSS communities and DAOs 🏛️, where efficient sensemaking is crucial for self-governance. By providing async facilitation tools, Harmonica enables teams and communities to collaborate more effectively, ensuring that all participants can contribute meaningfully to discussions, proposals, and strategic planning.\n\nEnsuring that all stakeholders can participate effectively is a major challenge in online collaboration and governance, and making sense of reality, as well as identifying tensions and outliers, is a critical pre-requisite to making good decisions with high legitimacy.\n\n[Our research for the RnDAO CoLab Fellowship funded by Arbitrum](https://blog.harmonica.chat/before-the-proposal) (written between Jan-Mar 2024) showed that core teams, delegates and gov leads all desperately seek alignment but often struggle to generate essential strategic artefacts that articulate their intentions such as proposals, RFPs, OKRs, roadmaps, etc. These artifacts are essential because they serve as a scaffolding for community management and governance. Today, they are usually created by small groups of people with high context, often based on surveys or workshops. This makes their sensemaking (1) heavily dependent on their facilitation skills, (2) extremely time-consuming. Facilitation of sensemaking takes too much time and effort before and after submitting proposals – normally 1-2 months of hard work, to engage members and process everyone's inputs.\n\n![image!](https://skilled-lime-cow.myfilebase.com/ipfs/QmfLSAViuRahgZhGEMrAWtY16CX2Ru8dDrVSxuyQVrp2fU)\n\n## **What will we use the funds for?**\n\nThe next milestone for Team Harmonica consists of a few interconnected features, which we designed based on the user feedback that we've been collecting since our soft launch in early November 2024.\n\n- Workspaces (team management and multi-session sensemaking)\n- Better cross-pollination\n- Re-designed session creation flow and session results\n- Enable users to create and share their own templates, using cross-pollination and daisy-chaining,\n- Uploading additional docs (e.g. meeting transcripts)\n- Allow other agents to connect to Harmonica's MCP server\n\n\n## **Meet the Team!**\n\n- Artem Zhiganov (Product Lead): Artem is a governance expert with a background in product marketing. Previously governance lead at Protein Community (SC02 cohort), researched DAOs and co-ops for his MSc thesis, consulted tech companies, and led product marketing of a music streaming app. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhgnv)\n- Anton Mikhailov (Backend + LLM Ops): With 15 years of experience, Anton has a strong background in full-stack development and team leadership. He is the founder and CTO at Codee Studio and holds an MSc in Computer Science. Recently developed a passion for enhancing LLM performance using RAG and multi-agent systems. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-mikhailov-2279baa7/)\n- Jonas Kuhn (Frontend): Developer with a strong interest in deliberation, governance, voting - because that's what can enable us to align our incentives with our values, and that's what our civilization needs to thrive and not destroy itself. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonas-kuhn-99526350/)\n- Andrea Gallagher (Advisor): Andrea brings 25 years of expertise in information architecture, interaction design, and UX strategy, making her a vital resource for guiding Harmonica's design and user experience strategies. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreagallagher/)\n\n\n## Milestones: Harmonica 1.0\n\nThe next milestone for Team Harmonica consists of a few interconnected features, which we designed based on the user feedback that we've been collecting since our soft launch in early November 2024.\n\n- Workspaces (team management and multi-session sensemaking)\n- Better cross-pollination\n- Re-designed session creation flow and session results\n- Enable users to create and share their own templates, using cross-pollination and daisy-chaining,\n- Uploading additional docs (e.g. meeting transcripts)\n- Allow other agents to connect to Harmonica's MCP server\n\n\n## How did we use the funds from the past Gitcoin Round?\n\nThanks to GG22 grant, we were able to deliver on our promises with the new version of Harmonica. These features make it even more powerful and versatile tool for collective sensemaking:\n\n- Using a mix of several models (Claude + Gemini + GPT 4o Mini)\n- Generates better summaries thanks to Gemini\n- Generates better prompts thanks to Claude\n- It can now generate follow-up questions based on responses from other participants (cross-pollination) which enables indirect deliberation\n- It is now much easier to manage different prompts using internal admin panel\n\nTest the new version by creating a session: https://app.harmonica.chat/create", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectGithub": "harmonicabot", "projectTwitter": "harmonica_chat"}