What Fundacja Optimum Pareto does

Fundacja Optimum Pareto is a Polish non-profit foundation (fundacja), established in Kraków on April 29, 2014 by Wiktor Łoś and Jakub Zygucki, that develops and applies collective argumentation mapping technology to strengthen rational public discourse and democratic decision-making. Its core product is Swarmcheck, a proprietary web-based dialogic decision support system that combines natural human intelligence with collective and artificial intelligence through computer-based argumentation mapping, underpinned by the foundation's original S.P.O.K.O. methodology (Coherent, Singular, Declarative, Concrete, Economical). Around Swarmcheck, the foundation runs a portfolio of educational offerings — the Fake OFF online disinformation course (Warsaw high schools), the Dookoła nauki scientific thinking workshops (3- and 7-day formats delivered in Warsaw, Poznań, Żory, Legionowo, Wrocław County, and Podlaskie), the Zew rozumu board game for argumentation training, and an annual Komputerowe Wspomaganie Argumentacji (KMA) conference.

The foundation generates revenue through two principal streams: (1) individual donations (one-time and recurring monthly of 30–200 PLN) processed via TPAY.COM, PayPal, traditional bank transfers, and the FaniMani Foundation Autopay integration — with donors receiving Swarmcheck access, dedicated discussion space, and personal assistance as a benefit; and (2) public-task contracts and grants from Polish government entities, including the City of Warsaw, City of Kraków, City of Rybnik, Marshal's Office of Mazovian Voivodeship, Radom district, and the National Institute of Freedom – Center for Civil Society Development (PROO-5 program). It serves a multi-segment customer base of local government/public administration, NGOs and civil society organizations, students and educators, and — emerging from 2025 partnerships — the Effective Altruism and AI safety research communities as well as the decentralized science (DeSci) ecosystem. The team is led by Marcin Woźaniak (Chairman), Jakub Zygucki (Vice-President, founding co-founder), and Łukasz Wilisowski (Board Member, lead developer), with specialists drawn from Jagiellonian University philosophy programs and the Cracow School of Economics in argumentation logic and meta-argumentation roles.

Name

Fundacja Optimum Pareto

Legal name

Fundacja Optimum Pareto

Website

https://optimumpareto.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Fundacja Optimum Pareto is a Kraków-based Polish non-profit foundation that builds Swarmcheck, a proprietary argumentation-mapping platform for collective decision-making, and delivers critical-thinking educational programs to municipalities, NGOs, students, and emerging AI safety research communities, funded by donations and public-sector grants.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civic Deliberation Services

NAICS

Other Similar Organizations (except Business, Professional, Labor, and Political Organizations) (813990), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development (925120)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Governance Frameworks & DAO Tooling (modules, templates, standards) (FSAPAHAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Coordination & Contributor Management (tasks, bounties, roles) (FSAPAHAD), Infrastructure Planning, Capital Programs & Project Delivery Offices (PMOs) (BPAIALAJ), Grants, Funding & Budget Allocation Platforms (FSAPAHAE)

Keywords

• Civic deliberation services
• Argumentation mapping software
• Critical thinking education
• Public consultation facilitation
• Dialogic decision support

Headquarters

HQ city

Kraków

HQ country

Poland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: One-time and monthly donations from individuals. Donation options include preset amounts (200 zł, 100 zł, 50 zł, 30 zł) or custom amounts. Donors receive access to Swarmcheck application, dedicated discussion space with other donors, and personal assistance in using the system.
2. Public Task Funding: Funding from Polish government entities for specific public tasks. Sources include: City of Warsaw (Fake OFF project), City of Kraków (NGO cooperation handbook, cooperation plan), Marshal's Office of Mazovian Voivodeship (NGO sector study, digital transformation in Radom district), National Institute of Freedom - Center for Civil Society Development (PROO-5 program for international conference participation).
3. Bank Transfers and Online Payments: Traditional bank transfers accepted (IBAN: PL96 2030 0045 1110 0000 0384 9180). Online payments processed through TPAY.COM (Krajowy Integrator Płatności S.A.) supporting cards, BLIK, and online payments. Monthly donations processed via Autopay through FaniMani Foundation partnership.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Fundacja Optimum Pareto operates Swarmcheck, a proprietary dialogic decision-support web application that uses computer-based argumentation mapping to combine natural human intelligence with collective and artificial intelligence for multi-stakeholder decision-making. Around this core, the foundation runs educational programs (Fake OFF online course, "Dookoła nauki" workshops, "Zew rozumu" board game) and delivers civic deliberation, public consultation, and participatory budgeting services to Polish municipalities, voivodeships, schools, and NGOs.

Product overview

Fundacja Optimum Pareto operates a portfolio of products centred on the Swarmcheck Application — a web-based dialogic decision support system that uses proprietary computer-assisted argumentation mapping to combine natural human intelligence with collective and artificial intelligence. Swarmcheck serves as the core platform for multi-perspective, rational group decision-making. Around this core, the foundation offers complementary educational products: the Fake OFF online course for critical thinking and disinformation combat targeting Warsaw students, the 'Dookoła nauki' workshop series for scientific thinking, and the 'Zew rozumu' board game for argumentation training. A proprietary KMA (Computer-Assisted Argumentation) methodology underpins all Swarmcheck-powered activities. Donor supporters receive early access to the Swarmcheck App with dedicated collaboration spaces.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Swarmcheck: A dialogic decision support system combining natural human intelligence with collective and artificial intelligence for argumentation mapping
• Fake OFF
• Dookoła nauki (Around Science)
• Komputerowe Wspomaganie Argumentacji (KMA)

Products and services

• Swarmcheck Application Proprietary web-based dialogic decision support system that uses computer-based argumentation mapping to combine natural human intelligence with collective and artificial intelligence, enabling transparent multi-perspective collective decision-making, expert-moderated group discussion, and reusable argument databases. Offered to individual donors as a benefit and used by the foundation to deliver its civic deliberation services.
• Fake OFF Free online course of 21 short video lessons teaching argumentation skills and critical thinking to combat disinformation, accompanied by a competition with prizes for Warsaw upper-secondary school students and digital badges awarded on completion.
• Dookoła nauki (Around Science) Free remote and in-person workshops developing scientific thinking competencies, including critical thinking, scientific methodology, and information credibility evaluation. Available in a 3-day cycle and an extended 7-day cycle targeting upper-secondary school students.
• Zew rozumu (The Call of Reason) Board game designed to teach argumentation effectively, with successive levels where players learn to recognise arguments and fallacies, counter-argue, and discuss using argumentation mapping.
• Computer-Assisted Argumentation (KMA) Methodology Services Proprietary methodology combining collective argumentation mapping with artificial and collective intelligence to support decision-making in public policy, business, science, and education, delivered through facilitation, consulting, and the annual Komputerowe Wspomaganie Argumentacji conference.
• Argument Mining Algorithm Automated NLP-based feature for Swarmcheck that extracts arguments from continuous text sources such as scientific articles, social media discussions, and speech-to-text transcriptions and converts them into reusable argumentation maps; also supports fact-checking for decision processes.

Quantifiable outcome

• Krakowski Panel Transportowy: 43 binding recommendations adopted with 80%+ panelist support
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered strategic, core and supporting.

• DeSci.Berlin/Molecule/BioDAO EcosystemstrategicTechnology or Integration · 1 June 2025Participation in DeSci.Berlin 2025, the most important European conference on Decentralized Science. Presented argument mapping tool as infrastructure for decentralized science organizations. Identified integration opportunities with existing DeSci platforms.
• University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) - School of Collective IntelligencestrategicStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2025Collaboration at the 2025 Collective Intelligence Assembly in Rabat, Morocco. FOP conducted argumentation mapping workshops with School of Collective Intelligence students using Swarmcheck. Discussions on AI in democratic deliberation and collective intelligence research.
• Future Industry Platform Foundation (FIPF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Future Industry Platform Foundation (Fundacja Platforma Przemysłu Przyszłości) for the Radom digital transformation project. FIPF experts provide individual consulting sessions for local entrepreneurs in the industrial and agricultural sectors. Knowledge gained contributes to digital transformation handbooks for the Radom district.
• Fundacja Pole DialogucoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Fundacja Pole Dialogu as co-operators and moderators of the Krakowski Panel Transportowy (Kraków Transport Panel). Both foundations collaborate on facilitating citizen deliberation on sustainable transport policy.
• FaniMani FoundationsupportingChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership for processing monthly recurring donations through Autopay. FaniMani Foundation provides payment infrastructure and transfers all collected funds monthly to FOP's bank account.
• Polish Educational InstitutionscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with schools in Warsaw, Poznań, Żory, Legionowo, Wrocław County, and Podlaskie Voivodeship for 'Dookoła nauki' critical thinking workshops. Includes cooperation with Jagiellonian University and Cracow School of Economics.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Loomio: Cooperative-owned collaborative decision-making platform for groups and organizations. Comparable on collective decision-support, though heavier on proposal/voting than structured argument mapping.
• Kialo: Argument mapping and structured discussion platform. Most direct competitor on argumentation mapping methodology — same S.P.O.K.O.-style reusable argument structures and decision-support focus.
• Remesh: AI-powered conversational research platform for real-time group insights at scale. Comparable on AI-augmented collective intelligence, though targets enterprise/market research rather than civic deliberation.
• Pol.is: Open-source machine learning-assisted deliberation platform used by vTaiwan, Mozilla, and others. Comparable on scalable consensus-finding from large group discussions, representing a more ML-driven alternative to Swarmcheck's argumentation mapping approach.
• Decidim: Barcelona-based open-source participatory democracy platform used by municipalities and civic organizations worldwide. Most direct comparator to Swarmcheck's civic deliberation use case, with a larger user base and broader feature set.
• Consul (Madrid): Open-source civic participation platform powering Decide Madrid and used by hundreds of cities. Directly comparable as a public-sector deliberation tool, though focused on proposals/voting rather than argumentation mapping.

Broad incumbents

• Citizen Lab: Commercial civic engagement and online deliberation platform used by governments in Europe and North America. Comparable broad incumbent serving the same municipal client base with established commercial scale.
• NationBuilder: Commercial civic engagement and community organizing platform. Broad incumbent in the civic participation space, though narrower on deliberation than on mobilization and campaigns.

Emerging players

• g0v (vTaiwan): Taiwanese civic tech community responsible for vTaiwan and other participatory platforms. Comparable on civic deliberation methodology, particularly for AI-assisted policy consultation (Audrey Tang's work).
• Citibeats: AI-powered citizen insights platform for municipalities and governments. Comparable on AI-driven civic signal extraction, though less focused on structured argument mapping and more on sentiment analysis.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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