OPEN CAPTURES
Try SenseMaker directly
The best way to understand what SenseMaker® does is to experience it.
These two Captures are permanently open and free to participate in. Each takes about five minutes. Your story is anonymous.
SENSEMAKER live
You share a real experience. You interpret it yourself. And in doing so, you contribute to a growing dataset that reveals patterns across many people's everyday realities.
If you'd like to see the findings as they emerge, leave your email address at the end. Your contribution stays anonymous — your address is stored separately and never linked to your response.
We’re gathering the most telling micro-tensions of modern working life. Share your experience – anonymously – via our SenseMaker® Collector. Once we have enough input, we’ll look at the patterns that emerge and explore how to work with them.
How it works:
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Share a real experience from your working day – anonymous, ~5 minutes
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You provide the context – we analyse your interpretation
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We identify patterns and invite you to explore them with us
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Spot shared tensions
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Discover potential levers for action
Working with contradictions is part of every working life.
Question everything — but stick to the rules.
Do more, cut expenses. Build trust - be efficient.
The Dilemma Mirror collects these everyday tensions — anonymously, across organisations and roles.
As patterns emerge, we share findings and invite contributors to brief online sessions to explore what they reveal and how to work with them.
THE DILEMMA MIRROR
Share your favourite Workplace Dilemma here
THE AI - Culture (German)
Share your
AI experiences here
Organisations are making decisions about AI faster than they can understand what it is actually doing to their people.
This Capture surfaces the lived experience beneath the official narrative: where people feel overwhelmed or energised, where learning is happening and where blind spots are forming, and what fears or uncertainties — about redundancy, responsibility, or getting things wrong — sit alongside the enthusiasm.
Policy tells you what the organisation has decided. This tells you what people are actually navigating.
Want to see the results?
Once we’ve gathered enough contributions, we’ll share what’s taking shape and invite you to brief online sessions to reflect on the findings.
Leave your email here if you’d like to be notified:
Your responses remain anonymous and are not linked to your address.
Data security information here
What is the SenseMaker®?
SenseMaker® is a narrative-based data collection and analysis tool developed by the Cynefin Company. It helps uncover what’s really going on in organisations – beneath strategies, surveys or surface-level impressions – and provides grounded insights for practical work.
What makes SenseMaker® different?
SenseMaker® combines the depth of individual stories with the structure of quantitative data. Unlike traditional surveys or interviews, it’s not designed to confirm existing assumptions. Instead, it invites people to share real experiences and interpret them themselves.
This shifts the focus from expert analysis to participant sensemaking. No algorithms, no external coding – the interpretation stays with the people who were actually there.
How can the results be used?
Each data point is tied to a lived experience. In aggregate, these stories reveal patterns, outliers and weak signals that often remain invisible in conventional formats. This makes it possible to see what’s happening, under what conditions, and where there’s scope for movement.
Where is SenseMaker® used?
SenseMaker® is used globally – in companies, public institutions, NGOs and multilateral organisations. If you’d like to see examples, just get in touch. We’re happy to share cases from our own work or from the wider Complexity community.
Is my submission anonymous?
Yes. No personal data is stored. The collector runs on a secure EU-based server and complies with GDPR. If you choose to leave your email to be notified of results, it’s stored separately and not linked to your submission.
All our SenseMaker® projects are delivered under an official licence from Cognitive Edge / The Cynefin Company, and are carried out in close collaboration with, and supported by, their core team.