For discussion group leads

The best point in your book club already got made. Nobody remembers it.

You run a reading circle, a philosophy night, or a research group. The loudest read of the text wins the room, the quiet member's better point three weeks ago is gone, and every session starts back at zero. UpTrust ranks a comment by the trust earned on the exact subject you are discussing. The hard questions get laid out flat, every side in its place. And the record is still there after everyone has gone home.

Not who talked longest

Trust, but only on this subject

Trust here is tied to a topic, not to a person as a whole. Someone can be deeply trusted on the text you are discussing tonight and not at all on some other subject, and the two ratings stay separate. A confident voice does not get to carry its confidence into a subject it has not earned. Every topic page shows who the room really believes on that exact question.

A topic page listing its conversations and the voices trusted most on that subject
A topic page listing its conversations and the voices trusted most on that subject

The hard question, mapped

Every side gets a fair hearing

Questions is a public list of the things people genuinely disagree about, with each side laid out fairly in one place instead of scattered across old messages. Open one and you find several named perspectives, each given its room, and a synthesis that ties the threads together. Bring a contested question from your reading into the group already mapped, and spend the session arguing about the actual disagreement instead of reconstructing who said what.

The Questions index, showing a big disagreement broken into named perspectives
The Questions index, showing a big disagreement broken into named perspectives

Before the session, and after

The record keeps up with the conversation

Mirror is a private, weekly read on how you come across when you post and reply. Paste a draft take into its Pre-Publish Preview before the meeting and see how it reads before anyone else does. Inside the group itself, channels hold the discussion between sessions: reply in a thread to keep side arguments tidy, use Map to see the shape of a long back-and-forth, and pin the message that actually settled something so it does not wash away in the scroll.

Your weekly Mirror, showing the Clear, Open, and Centered rings
Your weekly Mirror, showing the Clear, Open, and Centered rings
Inside a group, with channels on the left and the conversation in the middle
Inside a group, with channels on the left and the conversation in the middle

I love what you're doing, because one thing people don't always understand is why the head of a free speech organization is always talking about knowledge creation. They're not loosely related—they're the same thing.

Greg Lukianoff, president and CEO of FIRE, in conversation on UpTrust, March 2026. Read the full conversation

Bring the group somewhere the good points stick

Start a group, tag your first discussion with a topic, and see who the room actually trusts on it.

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