Politiips — Features Guide

One subscription covers both apps. Whichever plan you pick unlocks features on Politiips (civic accountability) and Tiipstr (reputation & peer reviews) — same login, same billing, two platforms.

Start a 14-day free Engage trial from the Pricing page — no credit card required. Verified Officials get all Business-tier features at no cost across both apps.

Browse all U.S. officials by branch — Legislative (Congress), Executive (Cabinet & agencies), and Judicial (Federal Courts).

A color-coded map of all 50 states. Visualize political control by governor party or see how each state voted in recent presidential elections.

Federal, state, and local candidates can create a free campaign profile on Politiips. Browse candidates, follow their campaigns, and see bios, positions, and updates alongside elected officials.

Creating your own campaign profile:

Rate any official on a 0–10 approval scale and leave a detailed written review. Monitor (the free tier) supports 5 ratings + 3 reviews per month; Engage, Control, and Business are unlimited.

One unified search across the Politiips user base AND outbound public records. Same surface tiipstr uses.

Send a connection request from any user's profile. Once accepted, you can DM each other, see online status, and form group chats together.

Connection requests received:

Connect with other Politiips users and exchange private direct messages or group chats. Available to all signed-in users.

Record and send voice messages in any direct or group conversation.

Create group conversations with multiple connections at once.

PoliChat is Politiips' built-in AI assistant. Ask it anything about U.S. politics, officials, legislation, or how to use the platform.

Competitive political debate, scored by a three-judge AI panel. Three ways to fight: Sparring (you vs another user), Gauntlet (you vs a house AI at your chosen difficulty), and Cockfight (AI vs AI — you pick a model, stake a side, and coach your bird between rounds).

See the latest news articles about any official. Available on Monitor, Control, and Business tiers.

See a congressional member's committee assignments and hearing schedule.

Verified officials can run polls for their constituents. Any signed-in user can vote.

Verified officials can post campaign announcements visible on their public profile.

Every official's profile page has a public live chat room. Rate-limited to 3 messages per minute.

For federal judges, browse recent court opinions sourced directly from CourtListener.

See fundraising totals, spending, and cash on hand for congressional members, sourced from the FEC.

The Settings page is organized into 5 tabs in a left sidebar. Each tab focuses on one area of your account, and the URL preserves the tab so you can deep-link or share.

Your photo and display name appear on every review you write, every chat message you send, and on your tiipstr profile. Update them once and they propagate everywhere.

tiipstr is built on radical transparency. Your profile is always publicly findable, and your reviews — along with all thumbs counts and comments — are always public. There are no settings to hide your profile, score, or reviews. The only privacy controls are for your TiipTok feed.

What stays private: your follower / following / connection lists — only the counts are shown publicly. You can see your own lists in Orbit.

The notification system uses a two-level matrix — master channel toggles at the top, plus a per-event grid grouped by Politiips, tiipstr, and Account.

• 🏛️ Politiips — connection requests, accepted, new DMs, review reactions, comments, campaign updates and polls
• 🔵 tiipstr — peer reviews received, reactions, SCS milestones, invite accepted
• ⚙️ Account — plan changes, support resolved, claim approved/denied

tiipstr is the reputation side of the platform — where real people and businesses build trust through reviews. Every account has a Personal profile, and Business-tier accounts also get a Business profile. People review people, and businesses review their customers, so reputation flows both ways.

The SCS is a 0–5 star score summarizing a profile's reputation — the average of the star ratings on the reviews it has received. It shows on profiles, search, and feeds, and updates automatically whenever a review is added, edited, removed, or reacted to.

A business's public profile shows a People Score— the average personal SCS of the people on its team. It reflects the reputation of the humans behind the business, not just the business's own reviews.

If you're listed as a member of a business, you can anonymouslyrate that business 1–5 in your settings — a barometer of how employees feel about the company. The average shows on the business's public profile as its Culture Score. You can change your rating anytime.

Reviews are the heart of tiipstr. Review another person or a business with a star rating, written feedback, and a relationship rolethat gives readers context ("Reviewed as Customer", "Neighbor", "Tenant"…). Businesses can review their own customers too.

Reviews are social — anyone signed in can give a thumbs-up / thumbs-down and join the comment thread underneath a review.

Following is a one-way, public connection — follow people and businesses to keep up with their posts. Your follower / following counts show on your profile.

TiipTok is the tiipstr post feed — short updates from people and businesses.

Business-tier accounts get a public Business profile with its own name, logo, headline, category, contact info, reviews, and SCS.

Business-tier accounts can earn a Verified ✓ badge by passing identity (KYC) and business document (KYB) review. Verified businesses gain trust with customers and the Business plan stays unlocked automatically.

• Certificate of Good Standing (from your Secretary of State)
• IRS EIN Letter (CP-575 or 147C)
• Articles of Organization or Incorporation
• Operating Agreement or Bylaws

Business-tier accounts can add teammates to help manage their profile and reputation. Team actions appear publicly as the business, so your staff act on the company's behalf — not from their personal accounts.

Roles & what they can do:

Owneris the business creator — exactly one, and the only role that can touch billing. Permissions are enforced on the server, so a Viewer can't perform an action even if a button were somehow shown.

A few conditions:

• Invited members have no access until they accept; pending invites expire after 72 hours.
• Lapsed members (after a billing failure) keep their role's permissions during the grace period until the downgrade sweep.
• Removing a member ends their access immediately and stops any sponsored seat.
• Anyone's personal profile lists the businesses they're affiliated with (and their role) — so reputation ties both ways.

Once verified, your legal business name is locked — it's the name we attested to. Changing it needs tiipstr admin approval.

You can close a business, and a lapsed plan changes how the profile shows — but your review history is always preserved.

Businesses can review a customer who isn't on tiipstr yet. The review is held until that person signs up, then attaches to their new profile.

Track prospects through your sales pipeline and send estimates customers can accept or decline online — no app sign-up required on their end.

Business accounts can connect HubSpot to bring tiipstr reputation into their CRM.

Government officials can claim their profile with a verified badge using a .gov email address.

The Buzz page shows which officials the community is most engaged with — real-time leaderboards for ratings, reviews, and chat activity.

Export your activity data — ratings, reviews, and favorites — as a CSV. Business tier only.

On tiipstr you can run a deeper public-records search through our partner services (BeenVerified, Spokeo) from Records Search in the tiipstr menu.

No — browsing profiles, viewing ratings and reviews, and reading news is completely free with no account required. You only need to sign up to rate, review, favorite, chat, or message other users.

Go to the Pricing page (link in the sidebar) and choose Pro or Business. You can pay by credit or debit card via our secure checkout.

They unified into a Monitor / Engage / Control / Business ladder. Monitor (was Free / Citizen) is $0 forever; Engage (was Pro / Patriot) is $6.99/mo; Control adds the 36-hr response window and pinning at $11.99/mo; Business is $99.99/mo. One subscription covers both Politiips and tiipstr features.

Yes — new accounts get a 14-day free Engage trial automatically, no credit card required. After the first 14 days you can keep Engage free indefinitely by inviting at least 2 people per week (on either app, with or without a review) — we'll remind you when you're short. Stop inviting and don't subscribe, and your account drops back to Monitor.

It's one unified subscription — Free, Pro, or Business — covering both apps. There's no separate tiipstr plan; your tier unlocks features on both surfaces. Verified Officials get all Business-tier features at no cost.

Go to Messages in the sidebar (or Search) and search for the person by name or email. Click Connect to send a connection request. Once they accept, you can open the conversation and start messaging.

Yes — open the recipient's profile and click Recall on the pending request. The request is withdrawn and the timestamp resets so you can Resend later if you want.

No — anyone can find you and send a request (tiipstr is built on radical transparency, so there's no way to hide your profile or pause requests). You control each request when it arrives: Accept, Ignore (they can resend after 24 hours), or Decline (a firm no — they can't resend or re-request).

Settings → Account. Click the camera badge on your avatar, choose an image (JPG/PNG/WebP, max 5 MB), preview, then save. Your new photo replaces your existing photo on every review and conversation within seconds.

Settings → Notifications. The page has master toggles for In-App and Email at the top, plus a per-event matrix grouped by Politiips / tiipstr / Account. Each event has independent in-app and email toggles, so you can (for example) get an email for connection requests but not for review reactions.

Yes — in any direct or group conversation, click the microphone icon next to the text input. Record your message, preview it, then click Send. Voice messages appear as an audio player in the chat thread.

In Messages, click the Groups tab, then click New Group. Enter a name, check off connections you want to add, and click Create Group. Groups support up to 50 members and include voice messages.

Yes — group admins can upload a square photo from the Members modal. Click the camera badge on the avatar or the 'Add photo' link below the group name. The admin is the creator if they're still in the group, otherwise the earliest-joined remaining member.

Hover the bubble and click the trashcan. 'Delete for me' hides it from your view only; both parties get a confirmation popup. Within 15 minutes of sending, your own messages also offer 'Delete for everyone', which replaces the content with a 'Message deleted' tombstone on both sides — including any image or voice attachment.

Politiips auto-unfurls http(s) URLs into a Slack-style preview card with the site name, title, description, and hero image. Works in messages, TiipTok posts and comments, profile reviews and comments, and community posts and comments. If the site doesn't return Open Graph metadata, the URL just stays as a clickable link.

Yes — go back to the official's page and submit a new rating. Your previous score is replaced. Only your most recent rating counts.

A rating is a quick 0–10 approval score. A review includes a 1–5 star rating plus a written comment that other users can see and react to.

Yes — Settings → Privacy → toggle off 'Attribute Politiips reviews to me'. Your reviews still post and contribute to the community average, but your name and photo are hidden on them.

Settings → Privacy → 'Show online status'. Choose 'My connections' (default) to limit the green dot to people you've connected with, or 'Nobody' to hide it entirely.

Go to Settings → Plans & Billing or the Pricing page, then click Cancel subscription. Your access continues until the end of the current billing period.

Congressional data comes from the Congress.gov API. Court opinions come from CourtListener. Campaign finance data comes from the FEC. Executive officials are curated from government sources.

News articles are fetched from GNews.io and cached for up to one hour. The news feed is available on the Pro and Business tiers.

My Reps uses your IP address to estimate your location. VPNs or shared IPs can cause incorrect results. Try searching by name or filtering by state instead.

Your email is never shown publicly. State, party, ZIP, and phone are stored privately and never displayed. Only your display name and photo appear alongside reviews and chat messages — and even those can be hidden via Privacy controls.

After verifying your .gov email, our team reviews your request — typically 1–3 business days. You'll receive an email notification when a decision is made.

Visit politiips.com/for-candidates. Create a free account, verify your identity (a ~2-minute ID + selfie check — every candidate on Politiips is a verified real person), then launch your campaign profile with your platform, Q&A with voters, and followers. The same free offer applies to every declared candidate in every race, regardless of party.

Yes — click 'Continue with Google' on the login or signup page.

Yes. If you signed up with Google, go to Settings → Security → Password and add a password. After that you can sign in either way — with the Google button or with your email and password. Both methods lead to the same account, profile, and data.

While signed in, open Settings → Security → Password, enter a new password (at least 8 characters) twice, and click Add password. Your Google sign-in keeps working, and now your email + password works too. This also means you'll never be locked out if there's ever a Google sign-in hiccup.

On the login page click 'Forgot password', enter your email, and we'll send you a reset link (valid ~1 hour). Open it on any device and set a new password. Note: if your account only uses Google sign-in, you don't have a password to reset — we'll email you a reminder to use the Continue with Google button instead (or set a password first via Settings → Security).

First verify your identity (Settings → Security → Identity — required for all candidates, about 2 minutes). Then go to the Campaigns page from the sidebar and click 'Launch Your Campaign.' Complete the 3-step form: About You, Your Race, and Online Presence. Once submitted, our team reviews it within 1–2 business days. You'll see a 'Your Campaign' banner while it's under review.

Open your campaign page and click 'Claim this campaign.' You'll sign in (or create a free account), verify your email, and complete the quick identity check (about 2 minutes). If you used the private claim link we emailed you, the profile is handed over instantly. If you reached it from a public link — like the campaign URL shared on X — we do a fast manual check that your verified identity matches the candidate before transferring ownership (usually within a day), and we'll notify you in-app and by email once it's approved.

Yes — once your campaign is live you can edit it directly from your campaign profile page using the controls within each section.

Yes. In Step 2 of the campaign form, toggle 'Yes — I'm an incumbent' and paste your Politiips profile URL. This links your voting record, ratings, and existing profile data to your campaign page.

Yes — open any campaign and use the Reviews tab to leave a 1–5 star rating and an optional written review, like a tiipstr peer review. You'll need a verified account (email + a quick identity check). You get one review per campaign (you can edit or delete it anytime), and you can't review your own campaign. The campaign page shows the average rating and every review.

Yes — each campaign page has an 'In this race' list of the other candidates in that contest, with a link to each one's profile, so you can compare the field.

Buzz is your civic-engagement hub. Top of the page shows Live engagement: Active Polls (admin check-ins you can vote on) and Prediction Markets (live political odds from Polymarket). Below that are Activity leaderboards — Most Rated, Most Reviewed, and Most Active in Chat — ranked by your chosen time window (7/14/30 days, custom range, or All-Time). Find it in the left sidebar.

Markets shows live prediction-market odds for U.S. political races and issues — sourced from Polymarket. Each card shows the question, the top outcomes with their market-implied probability (a 60¢ contract price means a 60% implied probability), and the dollar volume traded. Click any card to view or place a position on polymarket.com. Politiips never proxies bets — we surface the data for civic awareness only. Reach Markets from the Live engagement strip at the top of The Buzz.

Yes. Use the pill strip above the grid to scope to a category — All Politics, Elections, Congress, Trump, Supreme Court, Foreign Policy, or Geopolitics. Sort with the dropdown on the right (Most active by volume, or Ending soon by resolution date). Your filter choice is reflected in the URL so /markets?tag=elections&sort=endDate is shareable.

Click Support in the left sidebar. The hub has two cards: User Guide (this page — how-tos and FAQs) and Contact (reach the team directly for account issues, billing, abuse reports, or partnerships). The direct URLs /help and /contact still work too.

When you sign up you get a 14-day free Engage trial. To keep Engage free month after month after the trial — no card on file — invite 2 people per week from the Invite page in the sidebar. As long as 2 of the people you invited each week have joined within the trailing 7-day window, your Engage stays free indefinitely. You can also pay $4.99/mo to skip the invite quota anytime. Note: this waiver does NOT apply to Business plans or to business-sponsored Control seats — those are billed separately.

No. The welcome explainer shows once. After that you may see one short reminder around day 3 and again around day 7 of your trial — but only if you haven't met that week's invite quota yet. Hit the quota and the reminders stop. There's also one urgent reminder in the final ~5 days of the trial.

Polls shows quick civic-engagement check-ins from the Politiips team. Tap any poll to see live results — totals update in real time as votes come in. Most polls also land in your inbox; one click in the email records your vote, no sign-in needed. Reach Polls from the Active Polls tab on The Buzz, or via the email link directly. Toggle between Active and Closed at the top of the page.

Open the poll's results page (/p/<id>, reachable from The Buzz → Active Polls, or any shared link), sign in, then tap any choice. Your pick is highlighted with a 'Your pick' badge and the bars update in real time. You can change your vote at any time before the poll closes — just tap a different choice and the previous one is dropped automatically. One vote per Politiips account either way.

Yes — Business-tier subscribers can connect their HubSpot CRM under Settings → Integrations → HubSpot. Generate an access token in HubSpot under Settings → Integrations → Keys → Service Keys → Create service key (older portals fall back to Legacy Apps), grant the crm.objects.contacts read/write scopes (and crm.objects.notes.write if you see it — optional, just for HubSpot-side audit notes), then paste the pat-na1-… token into tiipstr. We'll surface tiipstr scores on your HubSpot contacts, let you send a preemptive 1–5★ review of customers/prospects to drive reciprocity, invite contacts to join tiipstr, and push tiipstr_score / tiipstr_reviews properties back into your CRM.

A contact is a person or company in your CRM (a customer, prospect, vendor, or other relationship). A deal is an opportunity opened against a contact — every contact can have many deals over time. When the customer accepts your estimate on a deal, the deal becomes a job. Contacts persist; deals come and go; jobs are deals that won. ("Lead" in this product refers to the upstream activity of finding a prospect; once they're in your CRM, the opportunity itself is a deal.)

Customer = you've done work for them (or you're entering them as a previous customer). Prospect = active opportunity. Vendor = supplier, sub, partner — non-customer relationships. Other = anyone else. When you add a new contact: Prospect auto-creates a deal in the pipeline; Customer asks whether to also open a new deal (for repeat work); Vendor and Other never create a deal. Use the '+ New deal' row action on a contact at any time to open a deal against them — if they're a Vendor or Other, we'll confirm bumping them to Prospect first. When a deal hits Job completed, the contact is auto-promoted from Prospect to Customer.

From the CRM, open any deal and click + Create estimate. Add line items (description, qty, unit price), an optional tax rate, and an optional scope / terms blurb. Save & send emails the customer a unique portal link — they don't need a tiipstr account to view it. They can accept (typing their name as signature), decline (with optional reason), or just leave a question. Their decision auto-advances the deal in your pipeline and is recorded on the estimate with a timestamp + signature.

Yes. Each link contains a 24-byte unguessable token (~192 bits of entropy — same posture as Stripe / Resend action links). Links expire after 60 days. You can cancel a sent estimate at any time, which immediately invalidates the link. We do not require the customer to log in — token possession is the authentication.

Yes — Business-tier subscribers can connect Google under Settings → Integrations → Google Business Profile. Sign in with the Google account that manages your business location and we'll import your Google reviews into your review feed, badged 'via Google'. They also appear as a separate Google rating line on your public profile. Reviews resync automatically each day, or click Sync now anytime.

No. Google reviews are display-only — they show in your feed and as their own Google rating line, but they're never blended into your tiipstr credibility score. That score stays a verified, native-only signal, so no one can move it by posting (or buying) reviews on Google.

Yes. Open the review in your Command Center → Reviews and write a response just like any other review. For Google-sourced reviews, your reply is also posted back to Google automatically, so you only have to write it once.

Business profiles are public pages for your business on tiipstr — they show your name, photo, headline, category, contact info, customer reviews, and a credibility score. Customers can leave a star rating + comment after picking the role they know you in (Customer, Client, Patient, etc.), and the score is the running average of those reviews. Business profiles are included with the Business plan ($14.99/mo). To set one up, switch to Business in the profile dropdown at the top of tiipstr (or open Settings → Business → Profile) and fill in your business details. Your public page is at /business/[your user id], and you can share it via the QR code button just like any other tiipstr profile.

Anyone signed in can open your business page and click Add Review. They pick a role (Customer, Client, Patient, Tenant, Student, Member, Visitor, Guest, Patron, or Subscriber), give 1–5 stars, leave a short comment, and pick a 'known since' date. The review goes on your profile immediately and updates your credibility score. The same matrix means a Personal-profile reviewer can review a Business profile, but Business profiles can also send reviews back to Personal customers via HubSpot.

When you invite a HubSpot contact to tiipstr, you can attach a 1–5 star review. It's held privately in our system until the contact signs up and claims their tiipstr profile — at that point they can respond before the review goes public. The default is 5★ because a positive arrival review is the strongest reciprocity trigger for booking the next meeting or earning a return review.

Click Map in the sidebar to open a color-coded SVG map of all 50 states. Switch between Governor Party and past presidential popular vote modes using the dropdown. Hover any state for a tooltip, or click it to open that state's full politician directory.

Go to Settings → Security → Two-Factor Authentication and tap 'Set up two-factor authentication.' Scan the QR code with an authenticator app (Google Authenticator, Authy, or 1Password), or type in the shown key manually, then enter the 6-digit code once to confirm. After that, every sign-in asks for the current code from your app — so even if someone learns your password, they can't get in without your phone. You can turn it back off any time from the same screen.

Once a day you'll see a small card with a motivational quote or an uplifting health, welfare, or feel-good item — spanning physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. It's part of keeping Politiips and tiipstr a calm, kind, and civil space. Each card links to the fuller story (never behind a paywall) and has a one-tap button to share it to your TiipTok feed. It appears at most once a day, and you can dismiss it any time.

You can browse and read everything without verifying. But to take part — writing reviews or ratings, posting, messaging, sending connection requests, or creating a public profile — you'll need to verify your identity once via Didit (a quick government-ID + selfie check, about 2 minutes). Go to Settings → Security → Identity. This keeps the platform's reviews and reputation trustworthy. Accounts that existed before we introduced this are grandfathered and aren't required to verify (but can, to earn the verified badge) — with two exceptions that always require verification regardless of account age: launching a campaign and claiming a public official's profile.

Settings → Security → Identity Verification. Click 'Start identity verification', complete Didit's hosted ID + selfie flow in the new tab, and the page updates automatically when you're approved. If you see a banner asking you to verify, the 'Verify now' link takes you straight there.

It's a two-step compliance check for Business-tier accounts. KYC (Know Your Customer) verifies your personal identity through Didit's hosted ID + selfie flow — the same identity check every participating user completes. KYB (Know Your Business) is an internal review of any one of your business documents (Certificate of Good Standing, IRS EIN Letter, Articles of Organization, or Operating Agreement). Once both pass, your business profile shows a Verified ✓ badge across the platform.

KYC ties the Business profile to a real person who can be held accountable for the business. It's industry-standard for any platform that surfaces business identity (Stripe, Square, LinkedIn for Business, etc.). The KYC step verifies you, the KYB step verifies the entity itself.

Just one of: (1) Certificate of Good Standing from your Secretary of State, dated within the last 12 months; (2) IRS EIN Letter (CP-575 or 147C) confirming your EIN; (3) Articles of Organization or Incorporation (your formation filing); or (4) Operating Agreement or Bylaws. You can attach more than one if you have them, plus optional supporting documents like DBA filings, tax returns, or industry licenses.

KYC is usually instant — Didit returns a decision within minutes. KYB is a manual review by our compliance team and typically takes less than 24 hrs. We'll email you the moment a decision is made.

No. KYC verification is performed by Didit (a regulated identity-verification provider) and we only store the decision and document type, never raw images. KYB documents live in Supabase Storage with no public URLs — only signed links visible to the specific admin reviewing your case. We never share verification data with third parties.

You'll receive an email with the rejection reason and notes from the reviewer. You can fix the issue (often a missing document or an outdated Certificate of Good Standing) and resubmit at /settings/business/verify. There's no limit on resubmissions.

Every personal and business profile's Reviews tab can show an AI Review Summary — a short digest of that profile's public reviews: overall sentiment, recurring themes, and how the reputation has trended over time. Anyone can read it; any signed-in user can generate or refresh it (it counts against the requester's daily AI allowance). A generated summary is saved and served to everyone until new reviews arrive, 30 days pass, or someone clicks Refresh — then the next generation produces an up-to-date one. On your OWN dashboard there's a second, private tab — 'Reviews I've given' — that analyzes your reviewing style: whether you rate critically or generously, and the personality that comes through in your writing. That one is visible only to you, and nobody can run it on someone else. Both need at least 3 reviews.

The Public Pulse (at /pulse and on The Buzz) is a set of open temperature checks — rate the President's job performance, weigh in on ICE, pick your top midterm issue — that ANYONE can answer, no account needed. Because it's open to everyone, those numbers are labeled unverified and kept completely separate from Politiips' verified ratings and reviews. If you answer before signing up, creating an account saves your takes — and once you verify your identity, your Presidential rating is published to your verified record.

Yes — just ask Tiipy. Say things like 'rename my Reviews tab to Feedback', 'hide the Orbit tab', or 'put Messages first' and your dashboard updates instantly. Changes affect only YOUR view — nobody else sees them. The Profile tab can't be hidden (it's how you reach Settings), and pricing, billing, and other people's pages aren't customizable. Say 'reset my customizations' anytime to go back to the defaults.

Rooster (in the sidebar) is Politiips' political debate arena. Pick a position and argue it — against another user (Sparring), against a house AI at your chosen difficulty (Gauntlet), or stage an AI-vs-AI Cockfight where you pick a model, set it loose on your side of the question, and coach it between rounds. Every debate ends with a verdict from a three-judge AI panel — the Empiricist, the Logician, and the Rhetorician — who each score both sides 0–100 on argument quality. Majority takes it.

Two ladders, both starting at 1200 ELO. Your Debater rating moves when YOU argue: full weight in Sparring (human vs human), half weight in the Gauntlet (vs the house AI — Bantam, Middleweight, and Heavyweight birds are rated 1100/1300/1500, so beating harder birds climbs faster and farming easy ones goes nowhere). Your Handler rating moves only in Cockfights where another user handles the opposing AI. Wins, losses, ties, streaks, and forfeits all show on your record — miss your 24-hour turn clock and the match is forfeited.

No. The judges score argumentation quality — logic, responsiveness to rebuttals, evidentiary discipline, persuasion — and are explicitly instructed NOT to rule based on whether they agree with the position. A verdict is not a fact-check and not an endorsement of either side, and AI debaters argue positions they're assigned — their output is never any AI vendor's actual view. Debates in progress are private to their participants; finished debates join the public record.

Three birds: Claude (Anthropic), ChatGPT (OpenAI), and Gemini (Google). By default, roles rotate — across your debates every model cycles through arguing FOR, arguing AGAINST, and judging, so no model is permanently the arbiter. Prefer a specific matchup? Expand Model selection when creating a debate to pin your bird or the judge panel. In a Cockfight each handler picks their OWN bird — you choose yours when staging, your opponent chooses theirs when they accept — and models that are debating never judge that debate (the panel is drawn from whichever vendors aren't fighting). In an exhibition (no opposing handler) you stage both birds yourself.

Monitor (free): 3 debates + 1 cockfight per month. Engage: 10 debates + 5 cockfights. Control and Business: unlimited debates + 20 cockfights. Cockfights are metered separately because every round is AI-generated on both sides. Challenges you delete before anyone accepts — and call-outs that get declined — don't count against your allowance.

Every debate is scored by the same three-judge panel: the Empiricist judges evidence quality (are claims supported, specific, and falsifiable?), the Logician judges logic (validity, fallacies, and how directly each side answers the other's arguments), and the Rhetorician judges persuasion (framing, clarity, and rhetorical craft). Each judge scores both sides 0–100 independently and makes their own call; the majority of calls decides the winner (2–1 or 3–0), and scores within 5 points on a judge's card count as even. Important: these are three distinct personas with different scoring criteria — that stays true even when you choose 'All three judges: Claude' (or ChatGPT, or Gemini). A single-model panel still produces three independent scorecards through three different lenses, not one opinion repeated three times.

The challenged party chooses the weapons. When you accept a Cockfight, you can take the open side with your own bird (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Auto) — or choose 'Fight it yourself' and argue against the challenger's bird with your own words, no AI on your side. Bare-knuckle fights are cross-format, so they move both ladders at half weight: your Debater ELO settles against the bird's notional 1300 rating (same as a Middleweight Gauntlet), and the challenger's Handler ELO settles against your debater rating. You argue on the normal 24-hour turn clock; their bird replies automatically, shaped by any corner card its handler stages. The judge panel excludes the one vendor that's fighting.

Yes. Every TiipTok post has a 🐓 'Fight it' action. It takes you to Rooster with the post's text preloaded as the position — sharpen it into a clear, debatable claim before you start (you can edit it freely), then pick your matchup, side, and models as usual. The debate stays linked to the post it stemmed from: when the judges rule (or someone forfeits), the verdict is automatically posted back to that TiipTok post as a comment, with the result, the judges' tally, and a link to the full fight.

Yes — when creating a Sparring or Cockfight challenge, use 'Call someone out' to search for a user by name. A call-out is invite-only: it never appears on the public board, the person gets a notification, and only they can accept it. They can also decline (you get your monthly slot back) — or agree with your position, which resolves the call-out amicably without a fight. Leave the field empty and your challenge goes to the open board for anyone to accept. You can delete any challenge of yours that hasn't been accepted yet.

Hit 🤝 Agree. On an open challenge, agreeing backs the challenger's position — challenges show how many people agree, the challenger gets a notification, and the fight stays open for someone who actually disagrees. If you were personally called out and you agree, the call-out resolves without a debate: the challenger is told you agree with them, no ELO moves, and their monthly slot is refunded. Not every disagreement needs a fight — sometimes the honest answer is 'you're right.'