Harmonica
Fiscal Host: The Social Change Nest
Open-source AI agents for superfast sensemaking and deliberation.
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Lifetime Harmonica Pro — unlimited usage with your own model (BYOM), all Pro features, no monthly metering. Only 26 spots. Regular price: $499. Read more
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Bringing expert knowledge into community conversations — open-source avatars grounded in verified...
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Turning Harmonica session outputs into public-facing, navigable knowledge assets — dashboards, vi...
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-£275.00 GBP
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+£299.00GBP
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-£350.00 GBP
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Today’s balance£3.16 GBP
Total raised
£1,554.22 GBP
Total disbursed
£1,551.06 GBP
Estimated annual budget
£674.00 GBP
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News from Harmonica
Updates on our activities and progress.
Harmonica 0.4: a runtime for facilitation
Harmonica began as an AI interviewer — 1:1 chats in isolated sessions. Version 0.4 turns it into a runtime: something that takes a facilitation method and runs it reliably in multiplayer mode. You write the logic once (the stages,...
Published on June 12, 2026 by Artem
Looking back at 2025
We just published our end-of-year newsletter and wanted to share the highlights with our supporters here. TL;DR: 2025 was hard. Our technical lead quit in June. We're still pre-revenue. We made two major pivots. There were...
Published on December 24, 2025 by Artem
About
What is Harmonica?
Harmonica is an AI facilitator that conducts structured conversations with communities at scale, turning collective input into navigable sensemaking assets.
An AI facilitator conducts structured 1:1 conversations with each participant asynchronously, asking follow-up questions and adapting to their reasoning. It then synthesizes responses into structured data — themes, key perspectives, areas of agreement and tension — translating many voices into actionable insights.
The full pipeline: Collect (AI-facilitated conversations via web, Telegram, or messaging apps) → Synthesize (structured data from conversations) → Share (reports, dashboards, and open datasets).
Who it's for
Civic organizations, governance researchers, facilitators, and leaders who need to hear their communities but lack the infrastructure to do it at scale. Running a structured sensemaking process currently requires expensive consultants or months of manual work. Harmonica makes proven sensemaking protocols accessible as reusable session templates that any organization can deploy.
Traction
500+ sessions, 4,000+ conversations, 260+ users. Deployments include multilingual stakeholder engagement across four continents (CMI.fi), governance mapping with structured extraction into public knowledge bases (Metagov), and formal adoption of governance recommendations (Scroll DAO).
Key features
- Bring Your Own Model — connect your own AI provider or run local models
- Anonymous participation — sessions can be configured so participants stay anonymous
- Self-hostable — open-source core (AGPL) at github.com/harmonicabot
- Templates — reusable sensemaking protocols for common use cases
- Multi-channel — web, Telegram bot, messaging apps
- REST API and MCP server for integrations