Flowstate

The plan

Search stays free. The round doesn't run itself.

Search is built on other schools' open work, so it stays free. The AI costs real money every time it runs, so free gets a taste of each tool and Pro gets enough for a season.

Free cuts 1 card every three days. Pro cuts 7, writes 15 frontlines, answers 20 questions, and flows 15 rounds a month.

Best value

Yearly

Everything on Pro, all season. Saves $19.89 against paying monthly.

$99.99$119.88

$8.33 a month, paid once

  • 7cards cut every 3 days
  • 15rounds flowed a month
  • 15frontlines and extensions every 3 days
  • 8card checks every 3 days
  • 20assistant questions every 3 days

Paid securely through Stripe. Cancel any time in Settings.

Monthly

The same thing, one month at a time. Stop whenever the season does.

$9.99/ month

Cancel any time

Free

No account fee, no trial to forget about, no card.

$0
  • 1 card cut every three days
  • 2 frontlines or extensions every three days
  • 3 assistant questions every three days
  • A finished sample round to look through
  • Search, showing 40% of the results
  • Rhetorica, timed at your speed

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Search & evidence

131 on Pro
  • Keyword and meaning at once

    Free

    Two searches run together. One matches your words, one matches cards that say the same thing differently. The results get merged.

  • Several ideas in one search

    Free

    Put commas between them. “grid, blackouts, hospitals” looks for all three and ranks cards that hit more of them higher.

  • Knows the topic's shorthand

    Free

    Type GD and it finds golden dome. Type DC and it finds data centers. The synonyms come from what teams write on the caselist.

  • Results arrive in folders

    Free

    Cards are grouped under the contention they belong to. Near-identical copies stack instead of filling the page.

  • Filter by school, tournament or caselist

    Free

    Type it or pick from a list of what actually exists in the database.

  • Filter by side, topic and source

    Free

    Pro, Con or both. This month's resolution or an older one. Your uploads, the caselist, or cards you cut yourself.

  • Works from the keyboard

    Free

    Slash puts the cursor in the search box. Arrows or j and k walk the results. Escape gets you out.

  • Card strength, out of ten

    Free

    Three things decide it: how many teams carry the card, how hard the database leans on its source, and how many teams already prep answers. The reasons are shown.

  • Where a card has been read

    Free

    Each one carries the school, team, tournament and round it came out of.

  • Copy lands in Word cut

    Free

    Underlining, highlighting, your font and your tag size all survive the paste. Google Docs too.

  • Your format everywhere

    Free

    Calibri, Arial or Times. Tag size 11 to 18pt. Your highlight colour. Set it once and every card on the site uses it.

  • The whole result list

    Pro

    Free search shows 40% of what matched. Pro shows all of it.

  • Starred cards

    Free

    Star anything worth keeping. It lands on one page, and the case builder pulls straight from it. Free keeps seven, Pro keeps as many as you like.

The blockfile

61 counted · 4 on Pro
  • Every contention teams run

    Free

    Built by reading every round file on the caselist for labels like “C1: ___”, “1AC – ___” and “A2 ___”.

  • And what they answer it with

    Pro

    The blocks and frontlines teams read against each argument, collected from every school.

  • How much of the field runs it

    Pro

    Every row has a bar, scaled against the most-run argument. The list reads as a ranking.

  • Who runs it, and where

    Pro

    Open an argument to see the teams, the tournaments, and the file each card came from.

  • Does this card fit?

    1 free · 8 pro

    An AI check on whether a card belongs under the contention it was filed under. The reasoning is saved with it.

  • The original round files

    Pro

    Open the Word documents the cards were cut out of.

Cutting cards

92 counted · 0 on Pro
  • Cut from a link

    1 free · 7 pro

    Paste the URL, say what you need it to prove.

  • Cut from pasted text

    1 free · 7 pro

    For anything behind a login or a paywall, paste the article instead of the link.

  • The author's words, exactly

    Free

    The AI hands back positions in the original text. It never writes prose of its own, and the server throws out anything that isn't an exact match.

  • Cut the way a person cuts

    Free

    Measured against 1,500 real caselist cards. About 8% of a card ends up highlighted, in short pieces, spread the way debaters actually do it.

  • Picks the side

    Free

    It knows this month's resolution, says whether the card is Pro or Con, and says why.

  • Cite in your format

    Free

    Author, quals, date, title, publication, URL, date accessed. Your initials go on the end.

  • Says what the card can't do

    Free

    If the article doesn't support the argument, it tells you instead of stretching the tag.

  • Catches cards you already have

    Free

    A duplicate gets linked to the one in your database rather than added twice.

  • Import your Verbatim files

    Free

    Headings become pockets, hats, blocks and tags. Underlining, bold and highlighting come through untouched.

In the round

121 counted · 10 on Pro
  • A sample round to look through

    Free

    Free accounts can open a finished round, cards and all, to see how a flow comes together before they buy anything.

  • One sheet, every speech

    Pro

    Pro case, Con case, both rebuttals, both summaries, both final focuses, in the order they happen. Keeps thirty rounds.

  • Cards on the flow

    Pro

    A card shows up in the box as its tagline. Hover it and the card opens, cite and the words you read out.

  • Flow by voice

    Pro

    It listens and writes the transcript in your browser. The audio never leaves your machine.

  • Hears debate words

    Pro

    Chrome offers five guesses per phrase. It keeps the one using this round's vocabulary, then repairs the rest by sound, so “territorium” comes back as moratorium.

  • Turns a speech into a flow

    Pro

    The transcript comes back abbreviated and in order, with each contention's parts nested under it.

  • Answers as you flow

    Pro

    Finish one of their lines with Enter and a short answer lands in your next speech, with the card from your blocks that backs it.

  • Your next speech, sized to the clock

    Pro

    Ninety seconds into a speech, your next one gets written into its box. Summary is a 30 second extension, 90 seconds of frontlines and a minute of weighing. Final focus is the same in two minutes.

  • Second rebuttal, split properly

    Pro

    Two minutes on their case and two minutes defending yours, because that's what second rebuttal has to do.

  • Shows what they dropped

    Pro

    Arguments with nothing answering them later in the round get listed under the speech that made them.

  • Speech timers

    Pro

    Every PF speech and prep time, loaded and counting the one you picked.

  • Ask mid-round

    3 free · 20 pro

    In-round mode answers in seconds and names the card by its cite. No preamble.

Writing the speech

113 counted · 1 on Pro
  • Build the case from your cards

    Free

    Name a contention, add cards, put them in reading order. It compiles the case. It doesn't write it for you. Free keeps one case, Pro keeps ten.

  • Both sides in one file

    Free

    A Pro case and a Con case live in the same file. Each keeps its own contentions and its own length.

  • Length as you go

    Free

    Spoken words and reading time at your pace, per contention and for the whole case, against what a case should run.

  • Start from what teams run

    Pro

    Open a contention off the caselist and pull from the cards teams actually read under it.

  • Frontlines

    2 free · 15 pro

    One block per response they made, with the move named. Turn, no link, non-unique. Strongest first.

  • The fifteen-second version

    Free

    Every frontline ends with what to say when prep is gone and you get two things.

  • Extensions

    2 free · 15 pro

    Re-establish the argument by cite, rebuild warrant to impact, answer their answers, weigh it, and end on one line.

  • Pull it off your flow

    Free

    Take what they said straight from a saved flow, including the round you're sitting in, instead of typing it again.

  • By card, by paste, or by name

    Free

    Work from a card in your database, a card you pasted in, or just its name. It says what it couldn't check without the text.

  • Never invents evidence

    Free

    Every citation points at a card that exists. Where nothing supports a line it says so and names what to go cut.

  • Ask your own evidence

    3 free · 20 pro

    Questions answered out of your card database, citing what they used.

Speaking

40 on Pro
  • Only the words you say

    Free

    Paste cards, get back the highlighted text in reading order. Cards with no highlighting fall back to the underlining.

  • Taglines kept as headings

    Free

    Bold tags, half-bold tags and bold cite lines all come through, because you read those out too.

  • Word count and speaking time

    Free

    Timed at your own words per minute, so a block's length is a number instead of a guess.

  • Word or Google Docs

    Free

    Both paste formats are understood, including Word's own highlighting markup.

Your account

40 on Pro
  • Google or an email link

    Free

    No password to invent.

  • Everything saved

    Free

    Cases, cut cards, blocks, flows and chats follow you to any device you sign in on.

  • Preferences that stick

    Free

    Font, tag and body size, highlight colour, speaking speed, default side and topic, your initials, light or dark.

  • Your work is yours

    Free

    Private unless you say otherwise. Nothing you upload or cut is shown to anyone else.

Free is genuinely useful. Pro is the rest of it.

Search the caselist, read the blockfile, time your speech. None of that costs anything. Pro is for when you want the round prepped for you.