Systems and methods for providing deliberation platforms

A process for managing a deliberation experience system for participant engagement, the process comprising:

• generating a deliberation platform having a plurality of forums communicatively coupled to a plurality of participant user devices, each forum of the plurality of forums including a chat window that displays messages from a subset of participant user devices;
• receiving an indication of a selected issue guide from a manager user device;
• providing an introduction portion and a first topic of the selected issue guide to the chat window of each forum;
• receiving one or more messages in the chat window of each forum from the subset of participant user devices to enable automated moderation of discussion in each forum;
• in response to identifying a question in at least one message of the one or more messages, providing a first response to the question in the chat window of an associated forum of the plurality of forums;
• in response to identifying a prohibited phrase in at least one message of the one or more messages, providing a second response to the prohibited phrase in the chat window of an associated forum of the plurality of forums;
• in response to a subsequent topic of the selected issue guide remaining, providing the subsequent topic to the chat window of each forum;
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• in response to no subsequent topic of the selected issue guide remaining, providing a conclusion portion of the selected issue guide to the chat window of each forum.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of a deliberation experience system, the non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including instructions executable by one or more processors, comprising instructions to:

• generate a deliberation platform including a plurality of forums and a manager dashboard to facilitate monitoring deliberation in each forum of the plurality of forums, the manager dashboard presented on a manager user device;
• receive a first input from the manager user device indicative of assigning a respective set of participant user devices to each forum and communicatively couple the respective set of participant user devices to each forum;
• receive a second input from the manager user device indicative of a selected issue guide of a plurality of issue guides, the selected issue guide including a plurality of discussion topics;
• receive a third input from the manager user device indicative of an allotted time period for deliberation, each discussion topic of the selected issue guide being associated with a respective portion of the allotted time period;
• instruct a computer-automated moderator to initiate a guided discussion on each forum by progressing through each discussion topic of the selected issue guide in each forum;
• and
• collect and present data associated with participant opinions from the respective set of participant user devices on one or more proposed actions of the selected issue guide on each forum.