Common Ground has since 2009, been developing the “social knowledge” technology, Scholar, in association with researchers and computer scientists in the University of Illinois. I have played a central role in the design and development of Scholar, taking a leading role in the areas of user interface design and analytics. I am closely involved in agile programming, where we have two-week planning-development-release cycles. I have since 2014 worked closely with the software development team, attending weekly “sprint” meetings, playing an active role as UI and analytics design lead in the JIRA software planning environment. Scholar consists today of five interconnected apps: Community (a hybrid of social media and blogging functions), Creator (a multimodal text editor that supports structured peer review), Publisher (for managing the feedback and workflow), Analytics (which data-mines activity and produces progress reports in the form of visualizations), and Bookstore (where finished works are made available, at no charge, via subscription, or at a per-item price, depending on the business model of the publisher). Scholar today has 24,ooo published works, over 150,000 user accounts, and an average of 25,000 monthly users. Scholar has been funded with the support of $6m in grants from the National Science Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Institute of Educational Sciences in the US Department of Education. Four of these grants have been directly to Common Ground. Three grants have been to the University of Illinois, in which case code is licensed to Common Ground by the University.