Debate Me

State your position. Face the strongest opposing case.

The complete intellectual sparring system. State any position and face the steelman — the strongest possible opposing case, not a strawman. Multi-turn debate with fallacy flags, coaching angles, source checks, and strategic concession. Five formats (Freeform, Lincoln-Douglas, Cross-Exam, Oxford, Socratic). Devil's Advocate Prep drills you for real meetings. Fallacy Gym trains pattern recognition. Rematch targets your documented blind spots. Highlight Reel analyzes patterns across all debates and assigns a Debater Type.

Overview

DebateMe is a complete system for sharpening how you think. At its core: state any position and face the strongest possible counter-argument — not a caricature, but what a thoughtful, well-informed person who genuinely disagrees would actually say. Around that core: five structured debate formats (including Socratic method where the AI only asks questions), a coaching system that suggests angles without writing your arguments, source-checking for any claim, audience judgment that scores persuasiveness rather than correctness, and an argument map that visualizes the structure of your thinking. Outside of debates: Devil's Advocate Prep drills you for real-world meetings with audience-specific objections, and Fallacy Gym trains you to spot logical errors. Everything compounds — your debate log feeds a Highlight Reel that reveals persistent patterns, assigns a Debater Type, and prescribes specific exercises for your weaknesses.

How to use it

  1. 🥊 Full Debate: State position, pick format (Freeform/Lincoln-Douglas/Cross-Exam/Oxford/Socratic), set challenge level, go. Use 🤝 to concede strategically, 🧑‍🏫 for coaching angles, 🔍 to source-check claims, 🔄 to switch sides. Adjust difficulty mid-debate
  2. 📊 Scorecard + Extras: After 2+ exchanges, end for sharpness score, blind spots, fallacy analysis, coaching note. Then unlock Audience Verdict (who was more persuasive to an undecided observer?) and Argument Map (visual tree of your claims with defended/abandoned branches)
  3. 🎯 Devil's Advocate Prep: Enter your position, audience, context, and stakes. Get the 5 hardest questions they'll ask, with angles, landmines to avoid, openers, and worst-case recovery. Jump to a full practice debate from any prep
  4. 🧩 Fallacy Gym: Spot logical fallacies at easy/medium/hard difficulty. Streak tracking. Get specific feedback on why you were right or wrong. Builds the skill that makes you better in actual debates
  5. 🔁 Rematch: From your log, rematch any previous debate. The AI targets your documented blind spots and sets traps for your habitual fallacies. Forces genuine growth
  6. 🏆 Highlight Reel: After 3+ debates, generate a cross-debate analysis — your Debater Type archetype, persistent strengths and weaknesses, most common fallacy with exercises, growth trajectory, and suggested topics to stretch your weakest areas

Example

Scenario: You need to defend switching to remote-first at Thursday's board meeting. The CEO is risk-averse and the company lost revenue last quarter.

What you do: Devil's Advocate Prep: enter your position, describe the board, note the revenue context, set stakes to 'career-defining.' Get drilled on the 5 hardest questions. Then jump to a full debate in Oxford format at Rigorous. Use Cross-Exam format for a round to practice answering tough questions. Mid-debate, source-check the productivity data you're citing. Hit Coach when stuck on the innovation objection. After 5 turns, switch sides to understand the board's perspective. End & Score.

Result: Prep gave you the 'but what about our culture' question you hadn't prepared for, plus a landmine to avoid ('don't mention competitor layoffs'). Debate scorecard: 7/10, blind spot on junior employee development. Audience Verdict: you were slightly more persuasive but lost them during the cost analysis. Argument Map shows you built wide but not deep — lots of claims, thin evidence. Rematch available targeting those exact weaknesses.

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