TWO PRODUCTS · ONE SEALED-VOTE METHOD

Decide slowly. See the pattern.

Counsel.day Decision settles a hard joint question over a season of sealed votes. Counsel Journal reads your evenings back to you · weekly, then monthly. Pick the one that fits.

DECISION TOOL

Counsel.day Decision

For the question one conversation cannot resolve.

  • One private vote each evening · 7 to 90 days, you choose
  • Sealed votes · neither side sways the other
  • One verdict at the close · five-layer analysis · one conversation to follow
From $9.99 USD per decision · first Solo decision free
REFLECTION JOURNAL

Counsel Journal

For the everyday signal of a season.

  • One minute every evening · type or speak
  • Sealed for seven days · you can't re-read it
  • A verdict every Monday · plus a monthly themed verdict on the first Monday of every month
$4.99 USD / month · cancel any time
HOW EACH WORKS

A picture of each.

Both products work the same way at the database layer · sealed votes that you cannot re-read, opening on a fixed schedule with a verdict that reads the whole arc. The shape of the schedule is what differs.

Decision · thirty sealed evenings · both verdicts open on day 30
How the mechanism works Two horizontal lanes, one per partner. Each lane carries twenty-nine sealed daily-vote ticks coloured by which way the partner leaned that evening · forest green for yes-days, wine for no-days · so each lane shows a believable mix that sways day to day. The final day thirty tick is the partner's verdict tick, followed by a YES or NO badge and the verdict word in Newsreader. Partner A reaches YES with the word Go in forest green; Partner B reaches NO with the words Lean No in wine italic. Top labels read DAY 01 QUESTION POSED on the left and DAY 30 VERDICT REVEALS on the right. DAY 01 · QUESTION POSED DAY 30 · VERDICT REVEALS PARTNER A YES Go PARTNER B NO Lean No THIRTY SEALED EVENINGS · NEITHER PARTNER SEES THE OTHER'S VOTE · BOTH VERDICTS OPEN AT THE SAME INSTANT ON THE FINAL DAY
Journal · seven sealed evenings · Monday morning verdict reads the week
How the Counsel Journal works One sealed evening entry per night for seven nights, then on Monday morning a verdict ships that reads the past week of unsealed entries together · three to five recurring positives, one or two strains, one paragraph throughline, one specific question for the week ahead. NIGHT 01 · MONDAY EVENING NIGHT 07 · SUNDAY EVENING MONDAY · VERDICT YOUR EVENINGS MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN SEALED SEALED SEALED SEALED SEALED SEALED SEALED MONDAY VERDICT What the week was about 3 - 5 POSITIVES 1 - 2 STRAINS THROUGHLINE A QUESTION FOR NEXT WEEK SEVEN SEALED EVENINGS · NOT RE-READABLE UNTIL THEY UNSEAL · MONDAY MORNING THE VERDICT READS THE WEEK
The observation that started the product

On the schooling question James and Alexandra could not settle at the dinner table, the answer was obviously yes on Tuesday and obviously no on Thursday. The difference between Tuesday and Thursday was not new information; it was them. Tuesday was the evening after the open evening at the city school. Thursday was the evening after watching their son spend three hours sliding down a hill in the countryside on the back of the dog.

Both signals were real. Neither was the answer. A decision worth losing sleep over deserves the whole arc, every Tuesday and every Thursday, for as long as the question needs.

Step 01

Compose the question

One of you opens a decision, chooses a duration anywhere from a week to ninety days, and pairs your partner with a single magic link. Setup takes under two minutes.

Step 02

Vote each evening

Each evening you tap one of four buttons, alone, with the option of a sentence. You see whether your partner has voted; never which way they leaned.

Step 03

Read the verdict

Both verdicts publish at the same instant on the final day. Beneath them, an analysis of every note you both wrote, naming the actual axis of your disagreement.

From a couple who used the product

"We had been arguing about this for eight months. When the verdict opened, we read it, had the right conversation for the first time, and bought a place we hadn't even considered."

Decision
An invitation

Start with the one that fits the evening you're in.

A hard joint decision? Start a Counsel.day Decision · your first Solo is free; set the duration, we hold you to it. Want the everyday signal of a season? Subscribe to Counsel Journal · $4.99 USD/month, cancel any time. Both, in time? Of course.

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