Put one thought at the top: a plan, a decision, a doubt. Hang what speaks for it on the left, what speaks against it on the right. A second voice thinks along: it reads your line of thought, argues back, and names what you missed. You keep what holds, and Punctum writes the report you send on.
02 / The second voice
Ask it about any point. It reads that point and the whole path above it, then answers with points you had not made: what backs you up, what argues back, and the fact or the question you were missing. It writes in your language, in its own marked hand, and it can be wrong. You keep what holds; only what you keep counts.
03 / How it goes
01 · Thesis
A plan, a decision, a doubt: one sentence you want to think all the way through.
02 · Points
For stands left, against right, a note in the middle. Every point can be argued in turn.
03 · Second voice
It reads the point and the path above it, and answers in its own marked hand.
04 · Report
The strongest points on each side, what is still open, and a conclusion you make your own.
04 / The report
When you are done, Punctum distils the whole tree into a memo: the thesis, the strongest points on each side, what remained open, and a conclusion. Every line points back to the points it came from, so whoever reads it sees how you got there. A manager can send it upward as it is.
05 / Why Punctum
Counterpoint is the old craft of setting independent voices against each other until they make one piece. Before writing software, Maarten Tolhuijs studied it at the conservatory in Alkmaar, and it gave C-Point Labs its name. An answer on its own may well be right; there is nothing to check it against. Punctum gives every answer a second voice.
Why C-Point?One voice
Two voices
06 / Start