All groups need to generate, align and execute on strategic decisions as group decision-making is at the heart of collaborative projects. Ensuring that all decision makers are equipped to participate effectively is a major collaboration challenge and good sense-making is a critical pre-requisite to making good decisions that are perceived by participants to be fair.

[**Our research for the RnDAO CoLab Fellowship funded by Arbitrum**](https://blog.harmonica.chat/before-the-proposal) (written between Jan-Mar 2024) showed that DAO members desperately seek alignment but often struggle to generate essential strategic artefacts that articulate their intent such as OKRs, purpose statements, RFPs, etc. These collective intelligence artifacts are essential because they serve as a scaffolding for decision-making. However, they are often co-created by small groups of people needing high context (i.e. initial sense-making). This relies heavily on the facilitation skills of governance leads or someone responsible for strategy. This facilitation of sense-making takes too much time and effort both before and after the proposal – normally 1-2 months of hard work - to engage people and process their inputs.