Ideios
An AI writing partner

For what you
almost said.

Five phases of interview before it writes anything. Three rounds of revision after. Output drafted in your voice, citing the notes you've already saved.

Before a word is written

The interview comes first.

Five phases of careful questioning. Topic, Excavation, Tension, Synthesis, Evidence. They pull what you actually think out of you, in your own words. Not generic AI. You.

Opus 4.7 drafts, critiques, and revises · Sonnet 4.6 runs the interview · Up to 25 turns · Save & resume anywhere

Phase 2 · Excavation
You said your chemistry teacher changed everything. Find the smallest moment that actually changed you. Not the inspirational speech. The smaller thing underneath it.
The day she made me label the variables out loud on a problem I'd been stuck on for a week. I'd written the equations but never named what they were. After that I started doing it for everything. Physics, history, my own arguments. Most things I couldn't write turned out to be things I hadn't named yet.
50
essays · 50 voice samples
The thing single-pass AI can't do

A voice that compounds.

Every essay you write here teaches the system a little more about your sentence rhythm, your opening habits, the kind of clauses you slip in mid-paragraph. By your fiftieth essay, the output is built from fifty essays of you.

Most AI memory is one bucket of prose.
Ideios runs four separate layers: voice · knowledge · task · principle.

Three minds, one draft

It writes, then it argues with itself.

Most AI tools draft once and stop. Ideios runs three Opus calls (Writer, Critic, Reviser), each on top of your voice profile and your library. The output you see is the third pass, not the first.

01 · Writer
Writes in your voice.
Pulls from your library, your voice profile, and the brief built from your interview.
The summer before college I read Adler. He says that underlining is a kind of procrastination. It looks like you're paying attention but the thinking has moved to a yellow line. He proposes a discipline that
02 · Critic
Finds the holes.
Argument clarity, evidence, voice consistency, contradictions vs your past notes, principle violations.
Sentence 2. You open with "He says." That hedge shows up in 4 of your last 5 essays. And the strong phrase, "thinking has moved to a yellow line," is buried where the punch should be. Move it
03 · Reviser
Sharpens the final.
Addresses every critique. Preserves your voice and core argument. Citations stay accurate.
The summer before college I read Adler. His argument hits like a small slap. Underlining is procrastination dressed up as engagement. The page looks dense with attention while the thinking
Memory architecture · v3.2

Four layers. One writer.

Most AI memory is one bucket. Ideios separates four. The writer never confuses your voice with a citation, your principle with a fact, or your scratch rubric with your actual library.

Layer 1 · Style
Your voice.
Past essays, journals, blog posts. Feeds your voice profile. Never cited as a fact.
📚
Layer 2 · Knowledge
Your sources.
Articles, papers, lecture notes. RAG-retrieved by topic. Cited inline with [[title]].
📌
Layer 3 · Task
This assignment.
Rubric, prompt, due-date pressure. Scoped to the current run. Auto-archived after.
Layer 4 · Principle
Your rules.
"Open with a concrete image, never a thesis." Wholesale-injected into every draft. Or: long-form exemplars to emulate, RAG-retrieved by topic.
Drag a node. Watch it settle.

Knowledge that finds its own constellations.

Every essay you write here pulls from past notes and links to new ones. The longer you write, the more the library forms patterns the way real thinking does. Style samples cluster with style samples. Knowledge sources tie to the essays that cite them. Principles thread through every draft they shaped.

Drag any node
Personal essays Academic writing Research Inbox Voice source
Show your work

Every draft comes with a receipt.

Which past notes the writer drew from. Which principles shaped the final. The brief, the first draft, the critic's notes. All preserved. If your teacher allows AI assistance and asks for transparency, you can show your work.

We don't promise undetectability. That's a marketing trap.
We promise the output sounds like you.

Notes used ✦ Reading-practice journal 📚 How to Read a Book ✦ Margin-notes archive
Principles applied ⚖ Open with a concrete moment ⚖ No abstractions until earned

Why I stopped underlining textbooks.

The summer before college I read Mortimer Adler [[How to Read a Book]] and stopped underlining. His argument: underlining is procrastination disguised as engagement. The page looks dense with attention, but the actual thinking has been outsourced to a yellow line.

The discipline he proposes is harder. Write what you'd underline, in your own words, in the margin, before you forget. I still underline now, but only

Try it on the essay you're avoiding right now.

Free to start. One full essay on the house. Interview, three drafts, your voice, your library. No card.

Pricing

Honest price, honest engine.

Every plan is calibrated to a uniform margin so we never have a reason to push you onto a tier you don't need. No upsell traps, no usage clocks ticking against you. Cancel anytime in one click.

Free
$0
3 essays to start, then 1/month
Sonnet single-pass · no Critic/Reviser · no voice profile
Student Premium
$14.99/mo
✦ Voice profile + Multi-agent pipeline
6 essays · 1 research · 100 library items
.edu only · Opus 4.7
Student Pro
$24.99/mo
✦ Voice profile + Multi-agent pipeline
10 essays · 3 research · 500 library items
.edu only · Opus 4.7
Pro
$39.99/mo
✦ Voice profile + Multi-agent pipeline
15 essays · 6 research · 2000 library items
Opus 4.7

Or pay $2.99 per essay if you'd rather not subscribe. Same engine, no commitment.
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FAQ

The honest questions.

Why Ideios?

Because thinking is the thing that's actually at stake. The current generation of AI writing tools are optimized for one thing: producing fluent text fast. That's a fine commodity. It's also the wrong product to build during the moment when an entire generation is learning that they can outsource the hard part of writing without ever doing it.

The hard part of writing isn't the prose. It's the thinking that has to happen before a sentence can land. The shape of an argument. The thing you actually believe versus the thing you've been told to believe. The contradiction you noticed but haven't worked through. None of that comes from a prompt. It comes from being asked the right question at the right moment, and being made to answer in your own words.

Ideios is built around that. Five phases of interview before a draft. Three rounds of revision after. Every essay deepens a memory of how you actually think, so the next one starts from your accumulated voice instead of a blank page. The output sounds like you because it came from you. We're not trying to make AI that thinks for you. We're trying to make a tool that makes you a better thinker.

Who is Ideios for?

Most directly: students who write essays where the voice is supposed to be theirs. Application essays, term papers, lit-crit, op-eds. The moment when you have something half-formed in your head, a deadline, a 1500-word target, and the choice between writing it badly because you're tired, prompting a generic AI and pasting in something that doesn't sound like you, or using a tool that pulls the actual thinking out of you and then writes in your voice from your own library.

Beyond students: anyone whose writing carries identity. Researchers drafting long-form. Knowledge workers turning meeting notes into proposals. Writers building a book one essay at a time. The common thread isn't education level or topic. It's that the who of the writing matters as much as the what.

Who Ideios is not for: people who want SEO content cranked out, marketers running blog farms, anyone whose primary need is volume over voice. We're slower than single-pass AI tools and more expensive per essay. The reason is the Critic and Reviser passes. If you don't care about voice, those passes are wasted on you.

Will the output actually sound like me?

Yes. And it gets sharper the more you write. The system learns your voice from every essay you draft here. Sentence rhythm, opening habits, the kind of clauses you slip in mid-paragraph. By your 50th essay, the output is drafted from 50 essays of your own writing. That's the thing Ideios actually delivers, and the thing generic single-pass AI can't.

Side note on detection. No AI tool on the market can guarantee bypass, and anyone who promises that is selling a fairy tale that ages out the next time detectors update. We don't build around evading detection. We build around your voice.

What if I'm just starting out and have nothing in my library?

Your first essay is the one with the least context, by definition. Many students paste in 1-2 old essays at signup so the voice profile has somewhere to start. Otherwise the system builds the profile from your interview answers, which are first-person prose captured the moment you type it.

Is my data private?

Yes. Your library, voice profile, and essays live in your account row in our Postgres database. Server-only access. We don't train models on your data. Anthropic and OpenAI process your content at API call time but don't persist it beyond standard log retention.

Why monthly billing?

Every draft costs us real money in API fees, embeddings, and infrastructure. Monthly subscriptions match how those costs are incurred. Cancel anytime in one click. No retention dark patterns, no "are you sure?" loops.