The sample read started as a meal planner for parents of picky toddlers, and the first thing it did was tell that idea back as one story. Every read opens this way, so you see what you're proposing in one sentence and what you haven't shown yet. You get it on every plan, before you've even made an account.
Fig. 1 · What it looks like on the sample read
The sample's story came back as one sentence, "You offer parents of picky toddlers a tool that plans a week of dinners from five accepted foods for $5 a month."
Under the sentence sit the lines the idea rests on, and every one of them carries the label "your assumption", because nothing in this section has been checked yet. The sample has three such lines, among them "Parents use the same weekly menu" and "Parents will pay $5 a month for the meal planner." You won't see "no source says this" here. We haven't looked for anything yet, so there's nothing we could have failed to find.
Fig. 2 · How we read your words
We read the text you typed, or the site you pasted if you've built it. The story has six slots, which hold the problem, who has it and pays, what they use for it today, what you'll build, what it costs, and where these people are and the language they write in. The last one decides where every section after this one looks: a café in Sibiu is searched for in Romanian, in the rooms Romanians use, and its competitors' prices are read in lei.
Where your words imply a slot, we fill it in and mark it as read from what you wrote. Where they leave it open, we ask one question with a few answers you can tap, and "I do not know" is always one of them. Tapping it counts as an answer, and the sections after this one go and look for what you didn't know. If the site you pasted is your own, we also look for the prices it prints, on its pricing page as well as the homepage.
Fig. 3 · Confirming the story
You confirm the story before we go and look for anyone. Everything after it is measured against the version you confirm. When page three starts, we write what would make us say no from this story and freeze it before anything there is scored. How we judge shows how that line works.
Before you confirm, you can tap any slot and correct it, and the correction is marked as yours. After you confirm, the story stays as it is. Tapping a slot then opens a box where you say the change in one sentence, and the change starts a new read next to this one.
Fig. 4 · What it costs and how to change it
This section takes a small share of your window, the same five-hour window everything else draws on. It runs again whenever you change the idea, because every change starts from a new story. Iterating explains which other sections run again with it and which ones come over from the earlier read at no cost.
The next section, who has the problem, searches for the people in your story. If it finds that they describe the problem differently from you, it says so in one line under its running head, with what you said beside what we found.