For love
You've been deciding whether to leave for six months.
What would Jane Austen tell you to do? What would La Rochefoucauld? Assemble a council of history's sharpest minds, bring them what was actually said, and hear them disagree about whether you stay, leave, or keep waiting.
Two full sessions, free · Private to your account · Nobody reads a sitting
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This council
Jane Austen
La Rochefoucauld
Montaigne
Marcus Aurelius
Nobody else is in the room.
A sitting is private to your account. Nobody reads it. Nothing is published, sold, or used to train anything. Encrypted at rest, keyed to you.
The sharpest minds of their age.
Each advisor is one of the masters of their time, built from the work they left. Not a costume, not a living influencer, and not a panel of strangers who happen to argue.
Built to disagree.
They ask first, hold a position, and refuse to flatter. That is in how they are built.
Why a council
The stress is not the feeling. It is sitting with it alone.
Stay or leave, both cost. You can see the doors. You cannot tell which one is love and which one is habit. The longer you wait, the more they look the same.
01 — The trade
You don't know what to do.
Not because you lack love. Because every option asks you to give something up — the person, the years, the story — and nobody has named it clearly enough to live with.
02 — The comfort
Everyone around you is on your side.
Friends want you to feel better. They will hate whoever you need them to hate. Comfort is not counsel. A room that only likes you will not help you move.
03 — The room
You need the masters of what people actually want.
Austen, Rochefoucauld, Montaigne, Aurelius — the sharpest minds of their age on love, self-interest, and what you can live with. Not friends. They will not take your side. They will still send you out with one action.
This council
This table, for this person.
Austen, Rochefoucauld, Montaigne, Aurelius — history's sharpest minds on what people actually want, and what you can live with. Change them if you want. They will not agree.
Your table 4 of 5 · Ready
The ChairAusten and La Rochefoucauld read the same room and reach different verdicts.
The room
Click a face to seat them. Click again to send them out.
Or sit a ready-made council
A sitting like this
They ask before they answer.
Most AI tells you to follow your heart. A real council wants the facts first. This is how a sitting on whether to stay reads.
Session · 3 advisors seated
An example of how the room reads this. Not a sitting anyone sent in.
How a session runs
Question. Positions. Verdict.
Nobody advises until the facts are on the table. Then the room argues. Then one person rules.
- The Chair
Before anyone speaks: when she asked, what were her exact words? And in the month since, have you been closer, or have you been managing her?
First
The Chair asks.
Two or three sentences from you. Then one or two precise questions back. Nobody advises until the facts are on the table.
- Jane Austen
Kinder is not an answer. It is a way of keeping her in the room while you keep the exit. She asked if this is going somewhere. You have already told her, by the month of care.
La RochefoucauldYou love her. You do not want the life that comes with her. Those can both be true. The cruelty is making her wait so you don't have to be the one who ended it.
Then
Your advisors take positions.
Each reads the situation through their own lens. Two of them will disagree. You can press any of them by name. They hold their ground.
- DecisionEnd it this week. Do not wait for her to ask again.ActionTell her in person. Once. No speech about needing more time.BySunday
Last
The Chair rules.
One decision, one concrete action, one deadline. The next morning the Chair writes, and the room continues.
Read this before you sit down
What the Council is not.
Not therapy.
If you're struggling, please talk to a professional. The Council is for decisions, not healing, and it will say so if your situation needs more than a decision.
Not a yes-man.
Most AI tells you what you want to hear. The Council is built to disagree with you when you're wrong, and to keep disagreeing when you push.
Not generic advice.
Every answer is about your situation, your people, your constraints. If the Council doesn't know enough, it asks. It doesn't guess.
The difference is the room, not a costume prompt. Why this is not ChatGPT →
Pricing
Cheaper than one bad decision.
Two full sessions, free, with everything the room does. Then Member for 5 sessions a month, Plus for 5× that, Patron for 20×. Pay yearly and take 20% off. Patron names go on the wall — first 200.
Free
Try the room
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- 2 full sessions, on the house — no expiry, no refill
- A council of three to five advisors, built from what they wrote
- The Chair asks first, then rules: one decision, one action, one date
- Advisors that disagree and hold their ground — press any of them by name
- Speak or type
- The Chair writes the morning after a verdict
- Every sitting saved, encrypted, and sealed to your account
Member
For a decision a week
$15/ month
Everything in Free, plus:
- More usage — 5 full sessions every month
- Refilled on the first of the month
- Cancel any time
Plus
For the ones who come back
$28/ month
Everything in Member, plus:
- 5× Member usage — 25 full sessions every month
- Seminars — sit with one advisor and go into their thought
- New advisors as they join
Patron
For the ones who keep it open
$78/ month
Everything in Plus, plus:
- 20× Member usage — 100 full sessions every month
- Your name on the wall — first 200
- A say in who joins the Council next
The situation
Bring the one you actually have.
Pick the fight you actually have. Same room. Different table. Then sit with the sharpest minds who already thought it through.
- For workYour coworker just presented your idea as his own.Work →
- For an exYou drafted the text. You haven't sent it.An ex →
- For friendsYou found out from someone else.Friends →
- For familyThey already decided. They're waiting for you to agree.Family →
- For moneyYou still haven't named the number.Money →
- For a secretThey still don't know. You've been deciding whether they should.A secret →
- For a cityYou've been leaving this city in your head for two years.A city →
- For a mentorThe person who made you is the person you have to leave.A mentor →
- For a partnerFifty-fifty. Only one of you is still building.A partner →
- For a reputationIt's going to come out. You haven't decided who hears it from you.Reputation →
Questions
Before you ask the Council.
Can't I just prompt ChatGPT?
You can. You will get one voice, in costume, already inclined to agree with you. The Council seats three to five advisors built from what they actually wrote, makes them disagree, and ends with a decision you have to act on. That is a room. A prompt is not.
Is this real AI, or people?
AI advisors, each built on the actual writings and ideas of the person they're named after. They are built to ask first, disagree when they should, and never flatter. No person is sitting behind the names.
Why these advisors?
Each one brings a way of reading a situation that the others don't. Power, self-control, incentives, reputation, courage, what people really want. Every one of them is in the public domain, and none of them will ever be swapped for a living influencer.
Is my situation private?
Yes. A sitting is private to your account. Nobody reads it — not Theo, who built this, not a staff, not a partner. Nothing you write is published, sold, shared, or used to train a model. It is encrypted at rest, keyed to your account. The model sees a turn only to answer it. You can allow a thirty-day review to improve the room; that is off unless you switch it on.
Will they just agree with me?
No. The Council is built so that advisors hold their positions when you push back. They'll concede a point, never the conclusion, unless you bring a fact that changes it.
When does the full app launch?
The web version you're looking at is live now. Your first two full sessions are free, with everything the room does. After that, Member is $15 a month for five sessions a month, Plus $28 for 5× that (and seminars with one advisor), Patron $78 for 20× — first 200 names on the wall. Pay yearly and take 20% off. The mobile app comes later.