User Guide — Crucible
The complete guide to every Crucible mode and feature.
The eleven thinking modes
- Debate — Steel Man, Adversary and Stoic argue your idea in parallel.
- Mentor — seasoned voice that asks the question under the question.
- Critic — names what is broken, missing, or won't survive contact with reality.
- Teacher — Socratic; draws the answer out of you instead of handing it over.
- Friend — presence-first, with persistent memory across sessions.
- Inventor — full Founder Workspace (14 documents, pitch deck, PDF/PPTX exports).
- Therapist — reflective conversation with crisis-language detection and country-localised referrals.
- Research — deep web investigation with every claim sourced and dated.
- Secretary — your personal assistant; tracks tasks, drafts emails and agendas, and handles follow-through.
Also: Council (parallel multi-voice on a single question).