Hold your ground.
Keep the room.
FlowTalk is a gym for getting your point across. Take a topic, or the conversation you're actually in — the flatmate, the boss, the dinner table — make your case, and the other side answers back. Then a coach judges your structure, logic, evidence and composure.
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54
topics to take on
30
daily lessons
9
arenas
A few of the 54 topics you'll take on
Real discussions
Hold your ground in the group chat
Paste the discussion you're actually in — the flat chat, a DM, an email thread. Get three replies that hold your position without escalating, each with the reason it works. Then run your draft past a pre-send check that catches going personal, tone-for-tone and the apology that concedes the whole point.
The other side answers back
Judged, not graded
Say what you'd genuinely say — no scripts, no multiple choice. The other side pushes back with the strongest honest version of itself. Then a coach debriefs your actual words: what landed, a stronger version of your case, one thing to fix, and a score for structure, logic, evidence and composure.
When it's live
Ask your coach anything
“Rent's going up 12% and I know I'll fold.” “Sunday lunch politics with my uncle.” “I get talked over in every meeting.” Describe it in your own words and get an honest read — including where you might be wrong — a short plan, and one line you can actually say.
Progress you can feel
From Finding Your Feet to Unshakeable
Eight levels, each spelling out what you can do when you get there — from stating a claim in one clear sentence to speaking up alone against a room that's already agreed. Plus streaks, freezes and a practice calendar, built like the habit apps that actually stick.
Timeless
“We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”
Zeno of Citium
Greek philosopher, founder of Stoicism · c. 300 BC
Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, VII
People have been working out how to disagree well for twenty-three centuries. FlowTalk opens each day with one of their conclusions — sourced, never invented — then gives you somewhere to practise it.
One a day
A taste of the daily lessons
Claim, reason, example
“An opinion is a claim without a reason. An argument is a claim with one.”
Instead of
Remote work's just better, honestly. Everyone knows it.
Try
Remote work's better for focused jobs — because you cut the interruptions. My team's bug rate halved the month we went hybrid.
The science · Stephen Toulmin's model of argument (The Uses of Argument, 1958): a claim needs grounds and a warrant. Aristotle's Rhetoric called the compressed version an enthymeme — the everyday syllogism.
With receipts
We read the books on persuasion so you don't have to
Every daily lesson cites the book or study it distils — no vague advice, no invented psychology. 30 of them, one a day.
- Rhetoric — Aristotle
- The Uses of Argument — Stephen Toulmin
- Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
- Never Split the Difference — Chris Voss
…plus the primary research: Rapoport's rules for steelmanning, the presenter's paradox, inoculation theory and the motte-and-bailey.
See the science →Questions, answered
Is it free?
Yes — three topics a day, the daily lesson and coach help are free, every day, forever. Pro removes the daily limits when you want more.
Is this for competitive debaters or for normal people?
Both, on purpose. Most people here just want to be the one who gets their point across — with a flatmate, a boss, at Sunday lunch. Competitive debaters get formal topics, timed rebuttal drills and points of information. Public speakers get the pitch, the hostile Q&A and the room that's already decided. Same engine, same coach.
Does it take a political side?
No, and it's built not to. Whichever side you're not on, the other side gets put as well as it can be put, and the coach judges the skill — structure, logic, evidence, composure — never the position. There's even a drill that has you make the strongest case for the view you disagree with most, because that's where the rep is.
Can I use it on my phone and my laptop?
Yes. Sign in with the same email, Google or Apple account on any device and your streak, history and saved discussions sync automatically. Start on your phone, pick it up on your laptop that evening.
Is this actually backed by research?
Every daily lesson cites the book or study it distils — Aristotle, Toulmin, Kahneman, Haidt, the debate-judging manuals. The practice loop itself is deliberate practice against someone who pushes back, which is how debaters have always trained.
Is my data private?
Your practice lives on your device first and syncs privately to your account. We don't sell it, share it for advertising, or profile you.
The next time it comes up,
you'll know what to say
Two minutes today. Then again tomorrow. That's the whole method.