Frequently asked questions

Yes — during early access, everything is free: practicing a round, debating a friend, and running a classroom warm-up, all with no sign-up. Paid plans are coming, but nothing is required to use the trainer today.

Plans launch soon. During early access everything is free. When paid plans launch: Student is $3/month, Teacher is $8/month, and School is $299/year. See full pricing on the ShouldaSaid Classroom page.

No. You can practice a round, debate a friend, or run a class with no account. Logging in with an email is optional and only used to keep your ballot history across devices.

Pick today's motion or write your own, choose Proposition or Opposition, and write your case. An AI opponent argues the other side over three rounds — opening, rebuttal, closing. Answer their strongest point before you add new ground; the judge notices.

Then an AI judge reads all three rounds and returns a ballot: a decision, a score, and one line on why you scored what you scored.

On the World Schools debate rubric, adapted for a written round. Content is scored out of 40 — argument quality, evidence, rebuttal. Strategy is scored out of 20 — structure, priorities, engaging the key clash. That's a total out of 60.

We don't score Style, the third World Schools criterion, because it's about delivery — voice, tone, gesture, presence — and there's no delivery to judge in a written round.

Yes. Create a room from any motion and share the link — no account needed on either side. You both argue your own side across three rounds, and each of you gets your own full ballot back, judged the same way as a solo round.

Yes. A teacher sets a motion and shares a join code; every student argues it from their own device and gets an individual ballot the moment they submit. The teacher sees a roster and class standings on one screen. See ShouldaSaid Classroom.

English, German, Arabic (fully right-to-left), and Spanish. You can argue in any of the four and the AI opponent and judge respond in the same language.

Your motion and speeches are sent to Anthropic's API to generate the AI opponent's replies and the judge's ballot, and stored so you can revisit past ballots. We don't sell your data. Full details in our Privacy Policy.

Yes. ShouldaSaid works on any device with a browser — no download required. It's also installable as a PWA on iOS and Android: on iOS, tap the share icon and choose "Add to Home Screen"; on Android, tap "Install app" in Chrome.