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Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, the 48 Laws and four more — individualized advice, not a lecture.
You bring one problem: a negotiation, a rival, an alliance, hiring or firing, setting a price, or getting out. You say where the power sits — you hold the stronger hand, you are evenly matched, or they do. Then seven advisors, each speaking for one of the best strategy books ever written, advise you until one ruling stands.
What you leave with is a plain-English plan, not a lecture. Copy the advice, print it or save it as a PDF, keep the situation to come back to, or export the lot as Markdown, CSV or JSON. Consultants call this a strategic framework engagement. It is seven opinions and a verdict.
For owners, freelancers and anyone staring at a decision with real money or real relationships on the line. You do not need a war college — you need the argument you cannot have alone.
1. Say where the power sits. Three buttons: I hold the stronger hand, we are evenly matched, they hold the stronger hand. That one answer changes everything that follows, because good advice for the strong hand is terrible advice for the weak one.
2. Say what you are up against. Six situations: a negotiation, a rival, an alliance, hiring or firing, setting a price, or getting out. Pick the one closest to yours.
3. Seven cards come back. One card per advisor. Each one tells you, in a sentence or two, what their book would have you do in that exact spot — not in general, in that spot. Six situations times three power positions times seven advisors is 126 separate pieces of advice in the app; you see the seven that fit yours.
4. One card gets marked. The app does not leave you with seven opinions and a shrug. For every combination there is a ruling — a short plain paragraph on what to actually do — and one advisor marked “Follow this one.” When you are weak in a negotiation, the game theorist gets the nod. When a rival is circling and you are strong, it goes elsewhere. The pick changes with the ground.
5. Make it your case. On Version 2 you put in your own details — write the situation in your own words, save it as a case, and reopen it later. The sheet stops being a generic answer and becomes your file on your problem. Version 3 puts your own name at the top.
6. Take it with you. Copy the whole hearing as text, print it or save a one-page PDF, download it as Markdown, CSV or JSON, or copy a share link that carries the entire situation inside the link itself.
The output is called the hearing, and it reads like one: the situation and the power position at the top, the ruling under “What to do,” the named pick, and then all seven advisors — name, school, what they said, and their one-line motto.
Depending on your version, that sheet leaves the screen as: copied plain text, a clean one-page printout or PDF, a Markdown file, a CSV, a JSON file, or a share link you can send to a partner so they open the exact same hearing. Saved situations sit in a list you can reopen — three of them on Version 2, as many as you like on Version 3.
The seven advisors. Each speaks for one book or school, and each has a motto that tells you their whole angle. Sun Tzu, from The Art of War: “Win before you fight, or do not fight.” The 48 Laws, from Robert Greene: “Position beats effort. Always.” Game Theory, payoffs and moves: “Play the board, not the person.” Frame Control, social dynamics: “Whoever reacts less, leads.” The Prince, from Machiavelli: “Be judged by results, not intentions.” The Don, from Corleone: “Patience, favours, and no feeling in it.” And The Marquis, desire and the unsaid: “Want is the lever. Find what they want.”
The six situations. A negotiation (money, terms, or a contract on the table). A rival (someone coming for your ground). An alliance (joining forces with someone who has their own agenda). Hiring or firing. Setting a price and holding it. Getting out — retreat, cut losses, or walk away clean.
The ruling. A plain paragraph on what to do, written for your exact combination, with one advisor marked to follow. This is the part consultants would call a synthesis. It is a verdict.
All three positions at once. On Version 3, any card opens up to show what that advisor would say in all three power positions — what changes if the hand shifts your way, and what changes if it shifts against you. Useful before a talk where you honestly do not know who holds the cards.
Saved situations. Save a case with your own note, come back to it, keep a file of the calls you have made. Three saves on Version 2, unlimited on Version 3.
Exports and the share link. Copy as text and print or PDF from Version 2. Markdown, CSV, JSON and the share link on Version 3. The share link carries the whole situation inside the link — there is no server holding your case.
Your name on the sheet. Version 3 puts a name of your choosing at the top of the printout, so the hearing can go in front of a partner or a client looking like it belongs to you.
The app's own footer says it best: advice, not instructions. You are still the one who has to live with it. These are the distilled positions of seven books, applied to eighteen combinations of situation and power. That is a real thing and a useful thing. It is not a lawyer, a therapist, or someone who knows your industry.
The advice is written down in advance, not generated while you wait. That is a feature — it means the counsel is considered, consistent, and works with no connection — but it also means the app rules on the shape of your problem, not on the names in it. Your details sharpen the file; they do not change the books.
Two of the seven — The 48 Laws and The Prince — are famously short on mercy. The app quotes them straight because watering them down would make them useless. Whether to take that kind of advice is, as the footer says, yours to live with.
Saved situations live in your browser's storage on your device. Clear the browser and they are gone. Nothing syncs anywhere.
Is this an AI chatbot? No. The advice was written from the books ahead of time — all 126 pieces of it — and your two answers pick which seven you see and which one is marked. Nothing is made up on the fly.
Does anyone see my problem? No. Your situation, your notes and your saved cases stay in your browser. Even the share link works by folding the situation into the link itself, not by uploading it.
What if my situation is not one of the six? Most fights with money or relationships on the line map onto one of them — a price dispute is a negotiation, a difficult partner is an alliance. If yours genuinely does not fit, this is the wrong hammer.
Which advisor is usually right? There is no usually. The whole point is that the pick moves with the ground — the marked card when you are strong is often the opposite of the marked card when you are weak.
Can I cancel? Yes, whenever. It is 99¢ a month at the bottom rung, not a mortgage, and during the beta it is free anyway.
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