We solved the impossible tradeoff: how to get depth, scale, and engagement together. Now organizations can hear from 100 stakeholders in a single session — and actually align them.
Depth without representativeness.
Scale without context.
Engagement limited to vocal participants.
The richness of a focus group. The reach of a survey. The shared experience that creates real buy-in.
Doug Griffen pioneered electronic brainstorming in 1991, facilitating 5,000+ sessions for Fortune 500 companies and government agencies over the next 30 years. The approach worked — but it had a ceiling. Around 20–30 participants, the technology and the facilitation broke down.
"I knew the methodology worked — I'd seen it transform how organizations made decisions for three decades. But I also knew we were leaving insights on the table. What if you could hear from 100 people? 500?"
In 2021, Doug partnered with his son Sam — a software engineer specializing in real-time collaborative systems — to rebuild the platform from scratch. Live infrastructure that could carry 1,000+ concurrent participants without losing the moderation quality that made the methodology work in the first place.
That's what Converge is: a methodology that's been refined for thirty years, encoded into infrastructure that didn't exist when Doug started.
Co-Founder & CEO
Pioneered electronic brainstorming in 1991. 30 years refining group facilitation at scale. 5,000+ sessions for KPMG, Ipsos, government agencies, and Fortune 500 strategy teams. Built Converge as a practitioner addressing real limitations — not as a tech founder chasing a category.
Co-Founder & CTO
Leads technical development. Background in real-time collaborative systems and consumer applications. Manages the infrastructure supporting 1,000+ concurrent participants with sub-second latency. Focuses on making serious research capabilities feel as easy to use as a consumer product.
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