About Austhink Software

About company

[Austhink Software](http://austhink.com/) was founded in 2004 by Tim van Gelder, an Australian cognitive scientist. Austhink develops software supporting critical thinking and decision making, in both business and education. In its software, it uses argument mapping, the use of graphical techniques for handling complex argumentation. Argument mapping has been shown in extensive research to be very effective in building critical thinking skills.