Every tier of Claves runs the same ritual. Your question is put to a council of artificial advisors drawn from rival laboratories. Each answers alone, seeing nothing of the others — so no one anchors, no one follows. Then the answers are laid open, and each advisor confronts the rest: conceding what is stronger, defending what survives, naming what the others missed. On the higher tiers, a fourth mind that held no seat reads the entire exchange and renders a verdict. That is the whole machine. The ladder below decides only two things: who sits at your table, and how often you can convene them.
What happens when you ask
- The Blind Round Every advisor answers your question independently and simultaneously. None can see another's response — independence is the condition everything else depends on.
- Cross-Examination The answers are unsealed. Each advisor reads the others, agrees where agreement is earned, objects where it isn't, and refines its own position under challenge.
- The Verdict On Upper and Max, a fourth model — one that held no seat and argued no side — weighs the full deliberation and renders the Chair Brief: what the council concluded, and how much weight it can bear.
Four rungs, one method
- Free Proves the method. One council of capable open models deliberates your question in full — blind round, cross-examination, the works. No account, no card, no setup. Enough to feel why three independent minds beat one confident one. 10 asks a day
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Mid ·
$14.99$5 / mo — free until Aug 1 Seats the experts. Four specialist councils, each tuned to a different kind of thinking — balanced judgment, open exploration, global perspective, deliberate step-by-step reasoning. Pick the council that fits the question. 20 sessions a day · instant, no key -
Upper ·
$39.99$10 / mo — free until Aug 1 Renders verdicts. Four synthesized councils, seating models from the leading laboratories. Every deliberation now ends in a Chair Brief — a fourth model's written verdict on what the council concluded and where it fractured. 17 full sessions a day · instant, no key -
Max ·
$59.99$15 / mo — free until Aug 1 Convenes the war room. The structured Workbench: frontier advisors produce evidence-ledgered, independently structured analyses, cross-examine, and maintain a standing decision memo across long-running project sessions. Built for decisions that take more than one sitting. Runs on your own OpenRouter key. Up to 30 council sessions a day, no key · Workbench on your key - Your Key Removes the ceiling. Connect your own OpenRouter key to any paid tier and the limits disappear: unlimited sessions, the frontier councils with frontier-class verdicts, per-seat control of every council, and optional web search for live internet-grounded asks — billed at cost, on your key, with nothing marked up. Unlimited · frontier councils · web search
Free proves the method.
Paid sharpens the judgment.
Tries, plainly stated
Every tier includes a daily allowance of full council sessions on our infrastructure — no key, no configuration. The allowance resets every day. Run out mid-thought and a $2.99 reset restores the day on the spot. Connect your own key and the question of allowances disappears entirely; paid BYOK sessions can also turn on web search when the work needs live internet context.
Why it's built this way
A council is only as honest as its independence, and only as useful as your ability to actually convene it.
So every tier ships the complete ritual — nothing is held back but the caliber of the seats. The blind round is never skipped, the cross-examination is never softened, and the daily allowances are set where a serious person doing serious work will rarely feel them. When you do outgrow them, the ladder doesn't ask you to trust us with more spend: your own key, your own account, your own ceiling.
The theory behind the ritual — why independent, diverse judgments outperform any single mind — is argued in full in The Council Thesis.