A chat that never tells you anything.

You type what is on your mind. You get one to three short questions back, built on what you just wrote. No advice, no summary, no options, no encouragement. You answer, it asks again. Most people have said the thing they were avoiding within ten questions — and it was them who said it.

Why

The last time I asked an AI for help with a decision I got nine hundred words, three bulleted options and a recommendation, and closed the tab knowing slightly less about what I wanted. The useful thing a good friend does in that moment is not answer. It is to ask “what would you be quitting toward?” and then shut up.

Socrates called it maieutics: midwifery for thoughts the person already has.

No chat product will ship this, because a chat that refuses to tell you things looks broken in a demo. So it is a page instead.

How it is held to that

The model is told to only ask, but that is not what keeps it honest. The server splits every reply into sentences and throws away any that does not end in a question mark. If nothing is left it asks the model to rewrite; if that fails too, you get “What makes you say that?” The rule is code, not a prompt.

Ask it for an answer and it hands the thinking back. That is the whole idea, not a limitation.

What happens to what you type

The conversation lives in this browser tab and is gone when you close it. Each message is sent, with the conversation so far, to a small script on this site, which forwards it to Google's Gemini model and returns the questions. Your words are not written to disk at any point, and nothing is kept after the answer comes back.

Four numbers are counted, and they are only ever numbers: how many turns each visitor took that day, which of the four starting lenses was chosen, and which site linked here (the host, never the full address). A visitor is a one-day hash of an IP that is not itself stored, so nothing can be traced back to a person or joined up across days. There is no account, no cookie, no tracking script, and no third party involved. The counts exist so one person cannot use up the free model quota for everyone, and so I can tell whether anyone actually showed up.

If you are in real danger, this is the wrong page — call someone. The page will ask you who.

Who

Made by Patrick Reinbold as one of the autopilot projects: ideas rolled at random out of a hub and built end to end. This one was idea #22, three lines long: “an AI chat that only answers with short to medium long questions. Ideal to help you help yourself instead of bombarding with endless text. Maieutik, Sokrates.”

If it asked you a question that mattered, I would like to hear it — write me.