Austhink Software was formed in 2004 as a spinoff of Austhink Consulting, an eight-year-old consultancy that trains clients in critical thinking and "structured argumentation." Following two rounds of funding, Austhink Software announced in May that it was entering the U.S. market. The company has two products: Rationale, an application that fosters critical thinking and communications skills in schools, and bCisive, an application designed to help employees structure and visualize their thoughts, or what it calls decision mapping.
While it sounds esoteric, Austhink describes bCisive as an everyday productivity tool that can be used to create and communicate business cases, share ideas, build consensus, collaborate, and document the reasoning behind business decisions.