Audits the reasoning: not the source, not the facts, the argument itself
Arguments,
examined.
The Whetstone is a publication: briefings that map where the strongest positions on a contested question stand, with a structural audit of every position's reasoning: named fallacies, unstated assumptions, terms doing hidden work.
The same engine is free to run on anything at the Audit: Read mode audits what someone else wrote, Create mode points it at your own writing before your readers do.
- Bias tools
- rate the source.
- Fact-checkers
- rate the claim.
- The Whetstone
- audits the reasoning.
The experts who got us here are now telling us not to trust our own eyes. At what point do reasonable people simply stop listening?
Ad Hominem
Attacks the messenger's standing rather than engaging the claim: "the experts are compromised, therefore wrong" doesn't follow.
Every briefing position carries a card like this. How the audit works →
What a briefing is
One contested question. The strongest positions on it, quoted verbatim from real sources and mapped on an axis named for what actually divides them, not left vs right. Each position is followed by a structural audit card. Then the part no other outlet gives you: the assumption both sides quietly share, and an editor's view that takes a position openly and states the devil's advocate against it.
The same engine, three ways
The Audit · Read
Audit any argument
Paste text or a URL and read the structure behind it. Free, no account required.
Open the Audit →
The Audit · Create
Stress-test your writing
The same engine on your own draft: counterarguments, citation audit, evidence check, revision tracking, inline highlights. Sign in only to keep your work.
Work on a draft →
Chrome extension
Audit as you read
Select a claim on any page and audit it in place. Highlights overlay the page itself. Coming to the Web Store.
Coming soon
Plans and limits: Pricing →
The method, in the open
The lenses, the labels, the verbatim-quote discipline, and what the engine deliberately won't do are documented on the method page, and every prompt and schema behind them is in the public repository.