Common Ground

Make the unwritten rules written.

Assignment briefs leave things out. The answers travel by asking someone — a group chat, a friend, a quick word after class. If you don’t have that, you pay for it.

On the left, a brief with three vague phrases marked: “discuss”, “appropriate” and “as discussed”. An arrow leads to three questions on the right, each colour-coded by how much it blocks you and each beginning with the word Ask.The briefdiscussappropriateas discussedQuestions worth askingAskWeigh both sides, or argue one?AskHow many sources is enough?AskWhat was assumed here?
Each question quotes the words that prompted it, and is marked by how much it blocks you: red stops you starting, amber costs you time, blue is worth checking.
Already loaded. No signup, nothing to install.

It never writes your assignment. It reads the brief and hands you questions — it does not do the work, and it does not rewrite your tutor’s words. Nothing you paste is stored: it is sent once to be read — by Google Gemini, or by Featherless if Google is unavailable — is never used for training, and is not kept afterwards.

What this will never do

  • It never writes your assignment. It describes the task. It does not do it.
  • It never rewrites the brief. It points at gaps and hands them back as questions. It does not restate what your teacher meant.
  • It never models you. There is no account, no profile, no score, and nothing about any person is inferred, stored or reported to anyone.
  • It doesn’t replace asking for what you need. This removes one barrier. It is not a reason for anyone to have fewer formal accommodations, and it never argues that it is.

“‘Come and see me if you have questions’ is not a route — it’s an unscheduled conversation with an authority figure where I have to perform not-understanding in real time.”

A friend from college, testing this on 8 August

“The questions were never my problem. Writing the email was. I’ve drafted that email in my head eleven times and never sent it.”

Another friend, testing this on 8 August

If you write briefs, run yours through this before you publish it.

Same tool, same output. Every question it hands back is one a student would otherwise have to find the confidence to ask — and if you answer them in the brief, nobody in the class has to be the one who asked.