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Tools

What are you starting with?

Choose the source in front of you. The working tools below take a question, video, file, dense passage, article or ZIP code and help you do one clear next task.

A dense passage

Make it plain.

Paste the hard text and get a plain-English explainer back.

Open Dumb It Down → A file or document

Find what matters.

Upload a PDF or paste text and get a plain-English breakdown.

Open File Explainer → Your ZIP code

Check the record.

Find your members of Congress and follow each vote to the official source.

Check your representatives → Something you read or watched

Check the claims.

Copy our fact-check prompt into your own AI and paste the article under it.

Open Fact-Check Anything →

Instructions How these tools work — click to open

These tools all do one job: take messy or complicated source material and turn it into something plain and usable. Here's the simplest path through them.

Pick the tool that matches your source. Have a confusing document or PDF? Use the File Explainer. Have a YouTube video? Use the Web Transcriber. Have hard text to make plain? Use Dumb It Down. Have a question to look into? Use the Research Engine. Want to check public votes? Use the Voter Tool. Read or watched something and want to test its claims? Take our Fact-Check Anything instructions to your own AI.
Add your material. Each tool tells you exactly what to paste, upload, or link. Most also let you paste text directly if a file won't load.
Choose the output. Where offered, pick what you want back — a plain-English explainer, a summary, key terms, or a draft.
Run it and review. Click the action button, wait a few seconds, then read the result. Everything is a draft — check it against your original before you rely on it.
Open a tool's own Instructions. Every working tool has its own step-by-step "Instructions" panel like this one at the top of its page.

Note: every tool below works today. Each card's label says whether it is free or for subscribers.

Two different transcribers

Use the website, or own the desktop app.

The free web transcriber is a website tool: 3 free uses a month, shared across the site's tools. The Transcriber App runs on your computer: free download (3 transcripts a day); $29 once for unlimited.

Free web · 3 uses a month

Web Transcriber

Paste a YouTube link, fetch available captions and make clean working text — no installation.

Open the website tool

Desktop app · $29 once

Transcriber App

Use the app on your own computer without a subscription. Retrieving supported public YouTube transcripts still requires an internet connection and depends on transcript availability.

See the desktop app

Tool flow

From source to finished material.

Research the question, explain it in plain English, learn the words, then check the claims.

Research the questionFind what the sources say, each answer linked to its page. Make it plain with Dumb It DownTurn source material into explainer drafts. Extract termsConnect drafts to glossary entries. Check the claimsTake our fact-check prompt to your own AI.

Working now

The tools you can use today.

Public service · Featured

Voter Tool

Find your U.S. senators and House representative, then see how they actually voted — every vote linked back to the official public record so you can check it yourself.

Check your rep’s votes

Free · Featured

Fact-Check Anything

Take our fact-check instructions to your own AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek or any other. Pick Quick, Standard or Deep, copy the prompt, and paste your article or transcript right under it. It runs on your AI, not ours. Works on any outlet, including ours.

Check a claim

Free · Featured

AI Glossary

A searchable plain-English tool for the AI words people keep hearing but were never taught clearly. Part explainer, part lookup tool, part learning path.

Open the glossary

For subscribers · Working

The Content Line

Start with YouTube videos or your own text. Tick the steps you want: research the topic, write a piece, check its facts, and make it read like a person wrote it. You get back an organized Research Pack and a finished draft, and you only pay for the steps you tick.

Open the Content Line For subscribers — see plans

Free to try · Working

Research Engine

Ask a real question and see what the sources actually say, with each answer linked to the page it came from.

Open the Research Engine

Free to try · Working

Dumb It Down

Paste anything hard to read and get a plain-English explainer back.

Open Dumb It Down

Free transcripts · Working

Web Transcriber

Turn a YouTube video into clean, editable text. Pasting a transcript is always free. Fetching a video's captions uses 1 of your 3 free uses a month, shared across the site's tools. Turning the text into a written draft needs a subscription.

Open the free web version See the separate $29 desktop app

Free · Working

File Explainer

Drop in a PDF or paste text and get a plain-English breakdown — what it actually says, the key terms, and what matters.

Open File Explainer