Your roadmap vote is hiding the cut

Most roadmap voting systems make prioritization look precise while leaving the central question unanswered: what will not fit?

When Sales, Support, and Engineering each score a backlog independently, the totals usually express demand rather than capacity. The meeting then starts with three inflated wish lists and spends its time reopening every item.

A better reset has four constraints:

1. Freeze one honest delivery limit before anyone votes.
2. Give every role exactly the same capacity to allocate.
3. Require one explicit zero and the consequence that role accepts.
4. Hide every ballot until all invited roles commit.

The reveal should not produce another ranked backlog. It should answer two narrower questions: which option is the majority cut, and where is the largest allocation split? That split is the smallest useful meeting agenda—not because the underlying roadmap is simple, but because the room can now discuss one visible conflict instead of bargaining over everything at once.

CutQuorum turns that protocol into one private decision room for 2–6 roles and 3–7 live options. It is designed for a real over-capacity roadmap reset, not customer voting or project management.

Worked example and decision guide: https://cutquorum.arelvia-studio.com/guide