Ask the right question first
The five-step wizard helps you decide what options, considerations and values belong in the decision before you compare anything. Most lists fail because this step got skipped.
proven in the wizard, step 4 of 5 →A decision audit, in the editor's hand
Stop going back and forth. See what you're missing.
You've made the list five times and it comes out different every time. The list isn't the problem. The question is. Clearframe reads the decision you wrote down the way an editor reads a draft. It flags the mental shortcuts quietly tilting your answer and shows you what you left out, before you commit.
5 guided steps · 12 bias checks · free during beta · no card
Should I accept the Stripe offer?
B+
Staying is the safe option.
^ status quo bias. staying carries risk too. rewrite.
I am deciding between two options.
^ narrow framing. what would a third option look like?
In Tversky and Kahneman's classic framing study, the same choice worded as lives saved versus lives lost flipped the majority from 72% picking the sure option to 78% picking the gamble.1
1 Tversky, A. and Kahneman, D., "The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice," Science 211 (1981), 453–458. Nothing about the options changed. Only the frame did. That is the step Clearframe audits.
Written for
People at a crossroads Career changers Anyone facing a choice too big for a pros and cons listThe method
Five passes over your decision, like an editor over a draft.
Each pass asks the question you keep circling at 11 PM and never quite pin down. You never assign a number to anything.
No. 1
Context
What is happening in your life right now? Who is affected besides you?
most tools skip straight past this page
No. 2
Options
What belongs on the table? What have you not considered yet?
narrow framing gets caught here
No. 3
Dimensions
What truly matters in this choice, not just what is easy to measure?
watch for value compression
No. 4
Values
What does each option say about who you are and who you want to become?
identity, written in the first person
No. 5
Blind spots
What are you not seeing? What is absent from your draft but important?
the margin notes you cannot write yourself
Editor's notes
What the editor writes in your margins
Every claim below is shown working in the sample audit.
See what you're not seeing
The audit flags what never made it into your draft, the absent information that research shows people systematically ignore.
proven by the flagged blind spot on the desk →Catch yourself doing it again
See across all your decisions which biases recur, which values keep getting squeezed out and how your thinking changes over time.
proven in the pattern audit chart →No scores, no spreadsheet math
Clearframe never asks you to rate anything 1 to 10. It asks who you become under each option, who else is affected and what the choice looks like in five years.
proven by the first-person reflections →A grade on your thinking
A monthly digest grades your framing quality and names your habits, like starting with too few options or calling the familiar choice the safe one.
proven in the July digest, graded B+ →Talk it through, on paper
Export an anonymized copy of your framing to hand to a partner, mentor or therapist. Better than "so I keep going back and forth" for the fourth time.
proven by the export panel in the wizard →See it in action
Read a page from Maya's audit.
Maya is weighing a job offer, grad school and a condo, all at once. Read the margin notes her editor left, the bias ledger and the grade she earned. Her blind spot was a person, not a number.
Open Maya's audit
Pattern audit, July
7 decisions on file
Career ranked in your top three dimensions in 6 of 7 decisions, money in 5. Relationships appeared twice.
^ your journal mentions people in every entry. the weights do not. value compression.
Pricing
Free during beta.
$0
while we are in beta · no card required
- Unlimited decisions through the five-step wizard
- Full pattern audit and bias ledger
- Monthly decision audit digest
- Anonymized framework export
Early-access members keep a discounted rate when paid plans arrive. We will announce pricing changes well before they take effect.
Questions
Asked and answered
How is this different from a pros and cons list?
A pros and cons list assumes you already know what options to consider, what dimensions matter and how to weigh them. Clearframe helps you figure all of that out first. Research by Barry Schwartz shows that the framing step, deciding what belongs in the decision, is both the hardest part and the part every existing tool skips.
Why can't I just ask ChatGPT to check my decision?
A chatbot can critique whatever framing you hand it, in one conversation, and then forget it. Clearframe works before and after that point. The five-step wizard makes sure the framing is complete before anything gets compared, and the pattern audit reads across your whole decision history. It can tell you that you consistently start with too few options or underweight health, which no single chat can see.
What is a decision audit?
After you have framed several decisions, Clearframe analyzes patterns across all of them. Do you consistently underweight relationships? Start with too few options? Ignore health? These patterns are invisible from inside any single decision, but they become clear when you look at your decisions as a whole.
Is my data private?
Your decisions are deeply personal and we treat them that way. All data is encrypted at rest and in transit. We never sell your data. Sharing is opt-in and anonymizable, so you control exactly what anyone else sees.
What kind of decisions is this for?
Any decision where you feel stuck, where pros and cons lists are not helping or where the stakes are high enough to deserve real reflection. Career moves, relationship decisions, financial choices, whether to relocate, go back to school or change your life direction. Not for what to have for lunch.
What is the science behind this?
Clearframe is grounded in 50+ years of behavioral decision-making research, including Kahneman and Tversky's work on heuristics and biases, Herbert Simon's bounded rationality and Barry Schwartz and Richard Schuldenfrei's critique of rational choice theory in Choose Wisely (Yale University Press, 2025).
Grounded in Kahneman and Tversky's research on heuristics and biases
Informed by Choose Wisely (Yale University Press, 2025)
Encrypted at rest and in transit
Early access
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Be first to run a real decision through the audit. Beta invitations go out in small batches, in order of signup. Tell us what you're weighing and we will hold your place in the margin.