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.
What the evening reflection feels like.
Counsel Journal is a separate, standalone $4.99 USD/month subscription · the evening reflection layer that some users run alongside Counsel.day Decision, others run on its own. It is the same sealed-read mechanism applied to the texture of a week instead of a single staged decision.
Thirty to a hundred-and-eighty seconds. Sealed.
Open the Journal. Type or tap the microphone. Speak about today · what worked, what didn't, what you noticed. Tap "Seal tonight's entry." The entry vanishes from view for seven days. You cannot re-read it. The seal is the entire point: future-you reads what tonight-you actually wrote, not what you wish you had.
A verdict opens the week.
Three to five things that kept working. One or two that strained. The throughline. One specific question for the week ahead. Written in a real human voice, grounded in your own words across the past seven days, citing the actual evenings the patterns appeared on. Not a mood chart. A paragraph.
The shape of the month.
Once every month, on the first Monday, a themed verdict reads the past four weekly verdicts together and names what the month was actually about. The shape of it, not the moments. This is the layer that no other journal app touches · streaks, mood emoji, daily prompts all work at the day. Counsel Journal works at the week and the month.
Your first Solo decision is free.
Counsel Journal is $4.99 USD/month, cancel any time. Pricing for both at Pricing.