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Council

Your own decision, read by the documented methods of two to four thinkers.

2 credits·in-depth·about 2–4 min·12 domains

What it answers

The question Council is built for

Describe the decision you face. Pick two to four thinkers from the roster and a mode: a bench that reads it and shows where the methods part, a debate with one round of replies and a close written to rules, or a pre-mortem that takes the decision as made and looks back from a year later. Each reading names the idea it rests on, and the council lists what it took on your word and what it would verify before deciding.

Who reaches for it

Anyone facing a decision that deserves more than one way of thinking about it.

What comes back

7 sections, on every run

These are the headings the result renders, read from the same promise the form makes before you spend a credit. A section that depends on what the record holds is rendered when it can be and never promised here.

01

The decision

02

Each method reads it

Each method Through · Weighs most · Would ask first · Where the method strains
03

Where they part

04

Where they agree

05

What none of them asks

06

Before you decide

07

The line to carry away

What you give it

2 boxes, 1 required

The decision — who must decide what, within what limit
required · up to 600 characters
What the table should know
optional · up to 2000 characters
Try it on: a subject you already hold an opinion about, so you can grade the result against what you know. Each one opens the form filled, in the General domain.
Whether NATO should admit Ukraine before the war endsWhether the UK should rejoin the EU customs unionWhether Taiwan should extend conscription to two years
What it will not do

The lines it holds

A council is modeled from each thinker's writings and teachings; it is an interpretation, never their words, and it never claims what a thinker would have supported. It issues no verdict and no vote, and it introduces no outside fact: the decision is read on what you told it.

Every claim carries its grade

A claim the scan could not source is marked as such rather than dressed up. How the grades work →

Verified or grounded
Reported or attributed
Contested
Open question
Where it runs

Available in 12 domains

A domain may name it in its own words and price it on its own terms; each row is what that domain shows.

General2 creditsDefense2 creditsFinance2 creditsEnergy2 creditsHealth2 creditsPolicy2 creditsTechnology2 creditsClimate2 creditsLearning2 creditsSports2 creditsTravel2 creditsLifestyle2 credits
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Run Council on something you already know

The fastest way to judge the result is to pick a subject you know cold and read it against what you know. The scan names its credit cost before it runs.

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