Consensus swarms do a poor job of unlocking the value of data.

A consensus swarm is one where the swarm can only output things that everyone in the swarm likes.

Different teams have to decide to prioritize features that will benefit some subset of users.

Very few features are obvious wins; the more impact they have, the more likely they are to be for very small audiences.

Consensus swarms need to coordinate to a single answer that everyone on the team can agree with.

This reduces to blandness, or more likely just swirling around, never agreeing on anything.

Many useful use cases are too small a niche for a bespoke app to ever be viable, or for a FAANG PM to bother prioritizing it.

A non-consensus swarm over a cloud of data could find interesting pockets of value.

But as a user, you can't trust a non-consensus swarm of unknown actors to see your data.

What if there was a privacy model that allowed the non-consensus swarm to build things with your data, safely?