What you'll see across the period.
A Counsel.day decision is not a single screen or a single transaction · it is a season of evenings. Below is what you actually do, and what you actually see, from the night you open it to the morning the verdict opens.
One prompt. Four buttons. A line, if a line occurs.
At your evening time, Counsel.day sends a single prompt · email by default, or a phone push if you have installed the app to your homescreen. You tap one of four buttons · Strong yes, Lean yes, Lean no, Strong no. Optionally you add a short note, anything from a sentence to a paragraph. The vote is sealed within milliseconds.
The button you tapped, and the note if you wrote one, become permanently unreadable to anyone, including us, until the close.
Sealed status. A strip of days. Nothing more.
Each day the decision page shows a horizontal strip of days · one tick per evening. Yours fills in as you vote; your partner's status is shown only as VOTED or NOT VOTED, never the direction. You see the count, the rhythm of who is keeping pace; you do not see what they are saying.
The reason is structural. Once you see your partner's lean, your own becomes a reaction. Counsel.day exists to capture each of you as you actually are across the period, not as you posture toward each other.
A daily note. A countdown. Restraint by design.
Below the strip you see a one-line reflection that changes daily · a quiet note about the work of considered decisions, taken from thirty literary sources or written for the product. You see the day number and the count of days remaining. You see when the next vote opens.
You do not see how the verdict is trending. You do not see your partner's notes. You do not see your own past notes either · the temptation to revise yesterday's note in light of today's mood is the exact temptation we are blocking.
A sealed envelope. A single button.
At your timezone's reveal time on the final evening, every participant sees the same screen: a sealed envelope, a button reading OPEN THIS RECORD. The envelope opens; two record slips slide out · the written verdict paragraph for each of you. Beneath the slips, in sequence, the trajectory, the themes clustered from your own words, the synthesis paragraph naming what you were actually arguing about, and the one specific question for the conversation that follows.
Everything in the analysis is yours to keep. Export it as a PDF or as JSON; we don't store the exported copy.
The conversation happens. Now you can have it.
The product comes before the conversation, with the data laid out plainly. The conversation itself still has to happen · between the two of you, around a table, in your own words. What Counsel.day gives you is the better starting line: you know where you each actually landed, you know what was on your minds across the period, and you have a specific real question to begin with.
The decision stays with you. The structure was ours.