{
  "name": "roadmap",
  "description": "All 66 original brief items and their implementation scope.",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Cite “Charitology (charitology.org)”.",
  "generated": "2026-10-26",
  "data": {
    "origin": "The user supplied Claude’s original mega list in this chat on October 25, 2026. The text below is preserved as the historical brief; current behavior follows STYLE.md and the later system-focused framing.",
    "entries": [
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "the-open-problems",
        "group": "Research",
        "originalTitle": "The Open Problems of Charitology",
        "originalBrief": "a public list of the biggest unanswered questions in doing good, like Hilbert’s famous list of math problems. Fund people to solve them. This is your most memeable flagship.",
        "adaptation": "All 23 problems are published and open for work. Prizes wait on the Question Bounties program."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "moral-frameworks-program",
        "group": "Research",
        "originalTitle": "Moral Frameworks Program",
        "originalBrief": "compares how different value systems rank causes (utilitarian, rights-based, justice, religious, community-first) and shows where they agree.",
        "adaptation": "Live comparison and deliberation software uses eight draft framework sketches and 17 cause areas. Independent review by people who hold each view remains a milestone."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "methods-lab",
        "group": "Research",
        "originalTitle": "Methods Lab",
        "originalBrief": "compares the ways of giving itself, such as direct cash, policy advocacy, research funding, local mutual aid, volunteering, impact investing and prizes.",
        "adaptation": "Live scenario and experiment-planning software is available. Its ranges are user assumptions, not empirical estimates; staffed comparative research and published findings remain milestones."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "cause-census",
        "group": "Research",
        "originalTitle": "Cause Census",
        "originalBrief": "maps every cause area by scale, neglect and solvability.",
        "adaptation": "Live cause filters and evidence-capture software are available. Existing mappings are editorial hypotheses; a complete global funding or depth census has not been produced."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "evidence-reviews",
        "group": "Research",
        "originalTitle": "Evidence Reviews",
        "originalBrief": "systematic reviews of every major intervention.",
        "adaptation": "Live protocol and study-extraction software links the draft Intervention Database. The workspace does not run literature searches or publish independently reviewed systematic reviews."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "replication-program",
        "group": "Research",
        "originalTitle": "Replication Program",
        "originalBrief": "re-runs famous charity impact studies to see if they hold up.",
        "adaptation": "Live replication-planning software saves immutable local versions and exports protocols. Browser timestamps are not public registration; studies, participant safeguards and independent replications still need people and resources."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "field-verification",
        "group": "Research",
        "originalTitle": "Field Verification",
        "originalBrief": "on-the-ground audits that check charities do what they claim.",
        "adaptation": "Field work needs funding, local research partners and ethics review. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "failure-lab",
        "group": "Research",
        "originalTitle": "Failure Lab",
        "originalBrief": "studies charities that failed or did harm, so others don’t repeat them.",
        "adaptation": "Live case browsing and postmortem software are available. Archive entries remain drafts; cross-case findings and independent field investigations still need researchers and evidence."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "history-of-charity",
        "group": "Research",
        "originalTitle": "History of Charity",
        "originalBrief": "what actually worked across centuries, like smallpox eradication, the Green Revolution and Carnegie libraries.",
        "adaptation": "Live filters, a source-linked timeline and a comparison notebook cover the current 13 draft cases. Broader historical coverage and independent source review remain open."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "forecasting-tournaments",
        "group": "Research",
        "originalTitle": "Forecasting Tournaments",
        "originalBrief": "people predict which interventions will work, and you score them over time.",
        "adaptation": "Questions and forecasts are added by pull request and shown on the Forecasting Platform. Each forecast is scored when its question resolves."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "red-team",
        "group": "Research",
        "originalTitle": "Red Team",
        "originalBrief": "a standing team whose only job is attacking Charitology’s own recommendations.",
        "adaptation": "Every entry page has a “Challenge a claim” link that opens a prefilled GitHub issue labeled red-team."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "the-charitology-fund",
        "group": "Funding",
        "originalTitle": "The Charitology Fund",
        "originalBrief": "one fund that always gives to the current best estimate of what’s best.",
        "adaptation": "The fund needs a legal entity, a fiscal sponsor and independent governance before it can exist. It accepts nothing now, so please don’t send money."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "charity-incubator",
        "group": "Funding",
        "originalTitle": "Charity Incubator",
        "originalBrief": "launches new charities to fill the gaps the research finds.",
        "adaptation": "Incubation needs funding, a legal home and experienced mentors. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "question-bounties",
        "group": "Funding",
        "originalTitle": "Question Bounties",
        "originalBrief": "cash rewards for answering specific open questions.",
        "adaptation": "Prize money needs a legal home, either a legal entity or a fiscal sponsor, and independent judges. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "the-charitology-prize",
        "group": "Funding",
        "originalTitle": "The Charitology Prize",
        "originalBrief": "an annual award for the best charity, research or idea.",
        "adaptation": "An award needs prize money, an independent jury and a legal home. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "certified-charitologist",
        "group": "People and education",
        "originalTitle": "Certified Charitologist",
        "originalBrief": "a credential for donors, nonprofit staff and advisors.",
        "adaptation": "A printable nonaccredited course completion record is available from the shared ten-unit course progress. The proposed professional credential, independent exam and two-reviewer portfolio process do not operate."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "charitology-fellowship",
        "group": "People and education",
        "originalTitle": "Charitology Fellowship",
        "originalBrief": "trains the next generation of researchers.",
        "adaptation": "Fellowships need funding and host institutions. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "university-chapters",
        "group": "People and education",
        "originalTitle": "University Chapters",
        "originalBrief": "student clubs that spread the idea on campuses.",
        "adaptation": "A local chapter-launch workspace includes six facilitated session agendas, responsibilities, tasks, draft constitution and invitation, handover prompts and JSON/CSV/Markdown exports. No recognized chapters or university partnerships are claimed."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "principles-course",
        "group": "People and education",
        "originalTitle": "Principles of Charitology course",
        "originalBrief": "a free online course, the “Charity 101” of the field.",
        "adaptation": "Ten-unit browser course with full textbook readings, twenty explained knowledge checks, saved practice notes and capstone, JSON backup and a printable nonaccredited completion record. No independent assessment is claimed."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "donor-advisory",
        "group": "People and education",
        "originalTitle": "Donor Advisory",
        "originalBrief": "guidance for major donors and family foundations.",
        "adaptation": "Advising needs trained advisors, a legal home and partners licensed for tax, legal and investment questions. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "nonprofit-advisory",
        "group": "People and education",
        "originalTitle": "Nonprofit Advisory",
        "originalBrief": "helps existing charities measure and improve their impact.",
        "adaptation": "Advising needs trained advisors, evaluation partners and independent funding. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "charitology-summit",
        "group": "Reach",
        "originalTitle": "Charitology Summit",
        "originalBrief": "an annual conference.",
        "adaptation": "A summit needs a host, a venue, funding and a legal home. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "local-charitology",
        "group": "Reach",
        "originalTitle": "Local Charitology",
        "originalBrief": "applies the methods to local giving, like “the best charity in your city.”",
        "adaptation": "A local research workspace records a geographic scope, sourced needs and activities, tentative depth descriptions and listening questions, then exports a methods-first brief. It is not a completed city census or a rating service."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "time-charitology",
        "group": "Reach",
        "originalTitle": "Time Charitology",
        "originalBrief": "the best use of volunteer hours, not just dollars.",
        "adaptation": "A working volunteer planner compares direct service, travel, preparation, skills and staff support, checks weekly capacity and logs actual hours and observations. Optional personal-cost arithmetic never estimates social value. An organization survey and placements are not operating."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "corporate-program",
        "group": "Reach",
        "originalTitle": "Corporate Program",
        "originalBrief": "helps companies redesign workplace giving and matching.",
        "adaptation": "A workplace matching calculator compares capped equal-gift scenarios, administration costs, budget shortfalls and participation sensitivity, alongside an editable policy and review checklist. It does not process gifts, payroll or establish company pilots."
      },
      {
        "collection": "programs",
        "id": "policy-program",
        "group": "Reach",
        "originalTitle": "Policy Program",
        "originalBrief": "applies the research to government aid budgets.",
        "adaptation": "A policy brief workspace compares a stated baseline and options, sourced claims, equity and participation, uncertainty and follow-up tasks. Optional discounted monetary scenarios show their assumptions without ranking options or claiming government adoption."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "values-compass",
        "group": "For donors",
        "originalTitle": "Values Compass",
        "originalBrief": "a quiz on what you care about, which then shows your best-matched charities. This is how you make “all ways” personal.",
        "adaptation": "Matches cause areas to your stated values. It does not recommend or rank named charities."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "portfolio-builder",
        "group": "For donors",
        "originalTitle": "Portfolio Builder",
        "originalBrief": "spreads your giving across causes when you’re unsure which values are right.",
        "adaptation": "Split a giving budget across causes when you aren’t sure which moral framework is right, compare two ways of doing it, and see how much they agree."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "charity-lookup",
        "group": "For donors",
        "originalTitle": "Charity Lookup",
        "originalBrief": "search any charity and see its Charitology rating.",
        "adaptation": "Searches the starter Charity Index and links to public registries. Depth labels are hypotheses, never ratings."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "browser-extension",
        "group": "For donors",
        "originalTitle": "Browser Extension",
        "originalBrief": "on any donation page or GoFundMe, it shows the rating and higher-impact alternatives.",
        "adaptation": "Live as a developer install for Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Store packages, listing copy and privacy documentation are prepared; store submission and approval are pending."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "impact-calculator",
        "group": "For donors",
        "originalTitle": "Impact Calculator",
        "originalBrief": "shows “what $100 does here vs. there.”",
        "adaptation": "Scenario estimates only where a published, dated intervention model exists. Different outcome units are not made interchangeable."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "compare-tool",
        "group": "For donors",
        "originalTitle": "Compare Tool",
        "originalBrief": "puts any two charities side by side.",
        "adaptation": "Compares interventions and their evidence, with no aggregate score or charity ranking."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "giving-dashboard",
        "group": "For donors",
        "originalTitle": "Giving Dashboard",
        "originalBrief": "tracks your lifetime giving and its estimated impact.",
        "adaptation": "Logs gifts, causes and self-described depth. It does not measure realized impact."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "charitology-wrapped",
        "group": "For donors",
        "originalTitle": "Charitology Wrapped",
        "originalBrief": "a shareable year-end recap of your giving, Spotify Wrapped-style. Very memeable.",
        "adaptation": "Turn a year of logged gifts into a card you can share, showing where your giving acted and the kind of giver it makes you, with or without the dollar amounts."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "one-click-split",
        "group": "For donors",
        "originalTitle": "One-Click Split",
        "originalBrief": "give once and have it automatically divided across your portfolio.",
        "adaptation": "The split planner is live. True one-click payment needs a licensed donation partner."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "legacy-planner",
        "group": "For donors",
        "originalTitle": "Legacy Planner",
        "originalBrief": "builds charitable giving into a will or bequest.",
        "adaptation": "A browser worksheet with sample language to discuss with a qualified adviser. It does not draft or execute a legal will."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "disaster-response-guide",
        "group": "For donors",
        "originalTitle": "Disaster Response Guide",
        "originalBrief": "when a disaster hits, shows where money helps most, fast.",
        "adaptation": "Sourced general guidance and a three-phase planner; no live disaster-specific charity recommendations."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "gift-giving",
        "group": "For donors",
        "originalTitle": "Gift Giving",
        "originalBrief": "donate in someone’s name as a present.",
        "adaptation": "Creates a printable or downloadable card. The actual donation happens through the charity."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "impact-measurement-toolkit",
        "group": "For nonprofits and funders",
        "originalTitle": "Impact Measurement Toolkit",
        "originalBrief": "templates that help charities track their results.",
        "adaptation": "Build a theory of change from the problem and its source to outcomes and indicators, with feedback from the people served, a comparison plan and a stop rule. Keep several drafts and export them as Markdown or JSON."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "cost-effectiveness-model-kit",
        "group": "For nonprofits and funders",
        "originalTitle": "Cost-Effectiveness Model Kit",
        "originalBrief": "open-source spreadsheets anyone can use and audit.",
        "adaptation": "An open browser model with reproducible simulations and CSV export, rather than a hosted spreadsheet."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "grant-evaluator",
        "group": "For nonprofits and funders",
        "originalTitle": "Grant Evaluator",
        "originalBrief": "a scoring framework for foundations reviewing proposals.",
        "adaptation": "Review a proposal on nine dimensions, from source depth to risk of harm, keep unknowns as unknowns, compare your saved proposals side by side and export a review memo."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "due-diligence-checklist",
        "group": "For nonprofits and funders",
        "originalTitle": "Due Diligence Checklist",
        "originalBrief": "a step-by-step vetting guide.",
        "adaptation": "Check an organization against 25 questions on legitimacy, money, results, learning, its place in the system and red flags. Unknowns become questions to ask, and the report downloads as Markdown."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "ai-charitologist",
        "group": "For everyone",
        "originalTitle": "AI Charitologist",
        "originalBrief": "a chat assistant that answers giving questions from your knowledge base.",
        "adaptation": "Live as retrieval over the Record. The generative layer is designed and will cite the Record for every sentence."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "public-api",
        "group": "For everyone",
        "originalTitle": "Public API",
        "originalBrief": "lets developers build your ratings into their apps and donation platforms.",
        "adaptation": "Publishes the Record and data as static JSON. It has no charity ratings."
      },
      {
        "collection": "tools",
        "id": "forecasting-platform",
        "group": "For everyone",
        "originalTitle": "Forecasting Platform",
        "originalBrief": "the home for the forecasting tournaments.",
        "adaptation": "Forecasts are proposed by public pull request; resolved questions are scored with Brier scores."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "encyclopedia",
        "group": "Flagship references",
        "originalTitle": "The Charitology Encyclopedia",
        "originalBrief": "the wiki of every cause, intervention and concept.",
        "adaptation": "26 searchable concept entries with source lists, review labels and downloadable reading dossiers. Entries remain editorial drafts pending contributor review."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "charity-index",
        "group": "Flagship references",
        "originalTitle": "Global Charity Index",
        "originalBrief": "a database of charities worldwide with financials and ratings.",
        "adaptation": "16 transparent classification records with multi-filter browsing, registry links and research dossiers. Classifications remain draft hypotheses, not charity ratings."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "interventions",
        "group": "Flagship references",
        "originalTitle": "Intervention Database",
        "originalBrief": "every intervention with its evidence strength and cost-effectiveness.",
        "adaptation": "15 sourced intervention records with six filters, side-by-side field comparison and research dossiers. Costs retain their original outcomes and caveats; review remains pending."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "cause-atlas",
        "group": "Flagship references",
        "originalTitle": "Cause Atlas",
        "originalBrief": "a visual map of the world’s problems and how much funding each gets.",
        "adaptation": "A working cause browser with linked intervention evidence. Worldwide funding is not estimated."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "gap-map",
        "group": "Flagship references",
        "originalTitle": "The Gap Map",
        "originalBrief": "where the world’s charity money goes compared with where the need is.",
        "adaptation": "Financial baseline charts and a local depth census with classification coverage, undo and validated backups. No global depth estimate is claimed."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "state-of-charity",
        "group": "Annual publications",
        "originalTitle": "State of Charity Report",
        "originalBrief": "the yearly “state of the world” for giving.",
        "adaptation": "A complete Edition 0 baseline with financial definitions, project coverage, unknowns and a downloadable report."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "charitology-100",
        "group": "Annual publications",
        "originalTitle": "The Charitology 100",
        "originalBrief": "the top charities list.",
        "adaptation": "A working nomination and method-review lab. No named-charity ranking is approved or published."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "progress-report",
        "group": "Annual publications",
        "originalTitle": "Open Problems Progress Report",
        "originalBrief": "which open problems got solved this year.",
        "adaptation": "Where every open problem stands, whether open, partly answered or solved, updated as results come in."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "evidence-library",
        "group": "Research archives",
        "originalTitle": "Evidence Library",
        "originalBrief": "every relevant study, tagged and summarized.",
        "adaptation": "An automatically assembled bibliography of cited sources, not every relevant study."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "failure-archive",
        "group": "Research archives",
        "originalTitle": "Failure Archive",
        "originalBrief": "post-mortems of charities and programs that didn’t work.",
        "adaptation": "8 searchable failure and mixed-result cases with lessons, sources and research dossiers. Inclusion does not estimate failure rates or judge the people involved."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "case-studies",
        "group": "Research archives",
        "originalTitle": "Historical Case Studies",
        "originalBrief": "philanthropy’s greatest wins and losses.",
        "adaptation": "13 searchable cases with result, place and depth filters, full source lists and reading dossiers. This is a bounded draft collection, not a representative sample."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "disagreements",
        "group": "Research archives",
        "originalTitle": "Disagreement Register",
        "originalBrief": "where experts disagree and why. Publishing this openly builds trust.",
        "adaptation": "8 searchable disagreements with positions, cruxes, sources and discussion dossiers. The collection remains editorial and open to correction."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "country-profiles",
        "group": "Research archives",
        "originalTitle": "Country Profiles",
        "originalBrief": "needs and best options, country by country.",
        "adaptation": "217 country/economy data profiles and a local research desk. Locally coauthored narrative profiles remain a separate milestone."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "open-datasets",
        "group": "Research archives",
        "originalTitle": "Open Datasets",
        "originalBrief": "all cost-effectiveness estimates, uncertainty ranges included.",
        "adaptation": "Every Charitology dataset as open JSON, plus the public datasets the field builds on."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "journal",
        "group": "Thought and teaching",
        "originalTitle": "Journal of Charitology",
        "originalBrief": "peer-reviewed research, which makes it a real academic field.",
        "adaptation": "Real proposed-method papers and a manuscript desk. Independent peer review is not completed."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "traditions",
        "group": "Thought and teaching",
        "originalTitle": "Giving Traditions Library",
        "originalBrief": "the philosophy of giving across cultures and faiths, including Zakat, Tzedakah, Dāna and tithing.",
        "adaptation": "8 searchable traditions with practice, origin, lens, sources and reading dossiers. These draft sketches cannot represent a whole living tradition."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "principles",
        "group": "Thought and teaching",
        "originalTitle": "Principles of Charitology",
        "originalBrief": "the field’s founding textbook.",
        "adaptation": "The complete ten-chapter textbook, full reading and print edition, download, search and private reading notebooks."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "lexicon",
        "group": "Thought and teaching",
        "originalTitle": "The Lexicon",
        "originalBrief": "a glossary of the field’s terms.",
        "adaptation": "A searchable glossary with cross-references, definition study mode and CSV export."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "myths",
        "group": "Thought and teaching",
        "originalTitle": "Myth-Busting Series",
        "originalBrief": "corrects misconceptions such as “low overhead means a good charity.”",
        "adaptation": "8 searchable belief analyses with verdict and condition filters, sources and discussion dossiers. Verdicts describe claims; contributor review remains pending."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "methodology",
        "group": "Thought and teaching",
        "originalTitle": "Methodology Handbook",
        "originalBrief": "exactly how Charitology rates things, fully transparent.",
        "adaptation": "A public handbook for evidence, depth, review and corrections. No charity rating method has been approved."
      },
      {
        "collection": "record",
        "id": "podcast-and-newsletter",
        "group": "Thought and teaching",
        "originalTitle": "Podcast and Newsletter",
        "originalBrief": "the outward-facing voice.",
        "adaptation": "Six actual MP3 episodes, transcripts and podcast RSS; a published letter and dedicated RSS. Email delivery is not configured."
      }
    ]
  }
}