Scenario. A thirty-person design firm is deciding whether to take a lucrative contract with a company several team members feel uncomfortable about. The founder, Asha, could call a vote — but she already knows what a vote would look like, and she suspects it would paper over the fact that different people are objecting for very different reasons, some of which she shares and some of which she doesn't. She wants a process that surfaces what each person actually cares about in this decision, not just yes or no, and produces something she could bring back to the team as a shared artifact they'll recognize themselves in, whatever she decides.

Challenge: Design a deliberative elicitation process for a group decision that surfaces what participants value — with the context and tradeoffs behind each position — rather than compressing deliberation into a vote or consensus, and distinguishes articulations reflecting deeper engagement with the domain from idiosyncratic preference. Produce the elicitation procedure, its interface to the actual decision, and the participant-count and value-revision rules.