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Gist distills any arXiv paper, Supreme Court opinion, or 2-hour YouTube video into five slides you can comprehend in 30 seconds — then tells you why the author is wrong, and why they might be right anyway.

Argument. Counter-argument. Steelman.

It's a graduate seminar in your web browser.

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Not summaries. Understanding.

Adjustable Depth

First slide: one sentence — the irreducible core. Swipe for context, complications, and evidence. Stop anytime. You control the depth.

Anti-Slop

Most AI summaries are slop. Gist gives you PhD-level frameworks — dramatic structure for stories, logical structure for arguments.

Think Deeper, Faster

The strongest counter-argument to every position and the best steelman of the author's case — a seminar in your browser.

Why it works

The shortest path from source to understanding.

Gist starts with the irreducible core, then lets you open the argument layer by layer without losing the original.

Core first

One sentence tells you what the source is really saying before you spend more attention.

Depth on demand

Open context, evidence, complications, and objections only when they are useful.

Steelman included

See the strongest counter-argument and the best version of the author's case.

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