An administrator sets up an analysis project.

Participants login, register, and become members of one or more project communities.

Community members establish Criteria for their community and add Alternatives for the project.

Participants weigh criteria as to importance along their own perspective, then score each alternative against the criteria.

Administrators allocate weights to each members's work, to add relative significance to each member's effort.

Projects can have multiple communities, and each community can have a relative weight.

Community members communicate to each other through integrated e-mail or post comments via the CTLite discussion board.

The final results are a ranked set of the Alternatives, listed from best to worst.