Society
Society (formerly named Council) is the institution-simulation and debate-audit workspace — not a second Canvas, but a focused place to:
- Define an institution's structure: committees, desks, agents and hierarchy
- Run investment questions against that institution and watch a structured, multi-round debate unfold
- Observe disagreement, rebuttals, votes and consensus — live, as they stream
- Export auditable decision processes for compliance and internal review
What lives here
- Institution templates — ready-made compositions with real public rosters, including the Federal Reserve FOMC (12 voting members), the Bank of England MPC (9 members), and multi-pod fund structures, plus a dozen archetypes (hedge fund, asset manager, bank trading desk, …). Apply a template, adjust it, save it as your own.
- Three views — Structure (the org chart), Topology (the influence network around any member), and Live debate (the streaming discussion with rebuttal threads, vote chips and a consensus card).
- Agent profiles — members carry biographies, cognitive-bias profiles and voice styles that shape how they argue. Outputs are approximations of public reaction functions, never predictions of a named person.
- Decisions that flow downstream — a completed debate emits a structured decision (stance, confidence, asset views, risk appetite) that Canvas nodes consume: portfolio weights tilt, signal directions adjust, risk overlays tighten or relax.
Why Society is separate from Canvas
| Dimension | Canvas | Society |
|---|---|---|
| Primary object | Analysis / strategy / execution graphs | Institutions / committees / agents / topics |
| Time structure | Single graph edit-and-run | Continuous topic history per institution |
| Core value | Build executable financial analysis graphs | Make AI collaboration, disagreement, consensus and export fully visible and auditable |
The two connect: drop an institution node onto a Canvas graph and the full committee debates inside your analysis, with its decision wired to downstream nodes.