Decisions fail when you misread
how stakeholders connect ideas.

We measure how people organize information in their heads: their mental models. Surveys tell you people's opinions. We show you how they're thinking about the problem. Do they see it as one thing causing another in a line? Or do they see a complex web of interconnected causes? That difference matters because you can't convince someone by arguing against their mental structure.

A mental model is how someone internalizes cause-and-effect relationships in their head. It's their personal theory of how things work. For example, one person might think "more regulation → less pollution → better health." Another might think "more regulation → higher costs → job losses → worse health." Same topic, completely different mental models. Understanding these differences is key to effective communication and policy design.

Three things. (1) What concepts people connect: do they link "climate change" to "fishing" or not? (2) How they connect them: does A cause B, or do they affect each other? (3) How complex their thinking is: simple chains vs. feedback loops. The output is a map of their thinking, plus statistics showing whether different groups think differently.

(1) Join the waitlist. Get Causality is in closed beta, no billing yet. (2) Create a survey with our drag-and-drop builder, or import existing data. (3) Share a link and participants draw their mental models in their browser (no app install). (4) Platform aggregates responses into analyzable networks automatically. (5) Run analyses with one click: centrality, clustering, group comparisons. (6) Export publication-ready visualizations and statistics.

Anyone who needs to understand stakeholders before making big decisions: consultants doing stakeholder analysis for clients, companies launching new products or policies, governments designing public policy, and researchers studying how people understand complex issues. All of them currently guess at how stakeholders think. We measure it.

It is a full survey tool: build, distribute, and collect standard surveys, and analyze the results (descriptive stats, reliability, correlations, group comparisons, cross-tabs) right in your browser. The difference is what else it captures: surveys ask the questions you think matter; we also let people tell us what they think matters and how it all connects. Example: a survey asks "Do you support climate policy?" and gets 60% saying yes. We show you why: some see economic benefits, others moral duty, others system collapse. Same opinion, completely different thinking. You need the why to design messages that work.

Traditional FCM analysis can take weeks between getting survey responses and having results, with most of that time spent on data cleaning, reformatting, and writing R scripts. Get Causality automates this workflow. Import your data, select your analyses, and get results in minutes instead of weeks. The platform aggregates 100,000+ participant responses into comparable group networks for demographic comparison, with automated visualizations.

At public launch the Free plan will include the model builder (up to 50 concepts), 1 survey, basic single-model analysis, and CSV/PNG export, built for students, small pilot projects, or evaluating the platform. We're in closed beta right now; join the waitlist for early access and a founding rate.

We support most common FCM data formats. You can import survey exports (CSV or JSON), standard FCM JSON files, Excel adjacency matrices, or just paste directly from a spreadsheet. The platform automatically detects your data format and handles the conversion, so you don't need to manually reformat anything.

40+ analysis methods across four categories. Network Analysis: centrality, clustering, structural equivalence, motif detection, QAP tests, group comparisons. Machine Learning: ML ensemble, SHAP explainability, latent class, cross-validation. Causal Discovery: PC algorithm, GES, LiNGAM, scenario modeling. Predictive: GAN-based synthetic data, RL policy optimization, intervention simulation. All with automated visualizations, interpretation guides, Word/PDF reports.

Yes. All data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest (AES-256-GCM). Passwords are hashed with bcrypt. A built-in PII filter automatically strips personally identifiable columns from uploaded data before it reaches any analysis pipeline. Two-factor authentication via TOTP or email codes. IP allowlists. GDPR compliant with full data export and account deletion. Custom data-handling agreements available for IRBs with specific requirements.

Enterprise and Team tiers add institutional SSO (SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect), per-institution 2FA enforcement, WebAuthn/FIDO2 passwordless login, trusted device management, comprehensive audit logging, and intrusion detection alerts. All security events logged with user ID, IP, and timestamp for IRB and compliance review.

You can pay monthly (cancel anytime) or annually. All plans include feature updates as we add them. Contact us for current pricing, including enterprise and multi-seat options.

Yes. Explore the live demo above with example models — no account needed. When you're ready, join the beta waitlist for early access and lock in a founding rate for two years after public launch.

Yes. We appreciate (but do not require) a citation. Suggested APA: Prasky, E. (2026). Get Causality: Browser-based fuzzy cognitive mapping research platform [Software]. https://get-causality.com. BibTeX and in-text formats in the Terms of Service.

All analyses run entirely in your browser. Your data never leaves your machine for computation. The platform uses Web Workers and in-browser WebAssembly (Pyodide), with WebLLM/WebGPU for language-model features, to perform network analysis, machine learning, and causal discovery client-side. This means no data is sent to external servers for processing, which simplifies IRB compliance and data governance.

Yes. Professional and Team plans include shared team access with role-based permissions. Team members can view surveys, run analyses, and export results from a shared workspace. Enterprise plans offer unlimited team members with SSO integration.

Just reach out. For general questions, email [email protected]. To schedule a demo for your team, contact [email protected]. Paid users get technical support with a 24-hour response time. Beta users get priority support and direct access to our development team.