CrossPolly
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Ask sharp.
Get sharp.
Specific prompts get specific applications. Vague prompts get vague ones.
That is the entire trick, and this corridor teaches it in seven posters. Bring a stuck decision; leave with a way to phrase it that 28 unrelated fields can grip.
The pattern that works.
Don’t ask
Ask
Sharp on some.
Useless on others.
narrow in a useful way.
Bring it —
- Strategy and trade-off calls where three framings could each be defended
- “How should I approach this?” — open-ended judgment problems
- Stuck situations where you know all the facts and still can’t see the move
- Questions that want a foreign mental model — creative and critical reasoning
- Pre-decision pressure-testing — hunting the angle you haven’t met yet
Keep it —
- Factual lookups. A dozen has twelve eggs in every field we cover.
- Questions with one right answer — math, definitions, dates
- Debugging. It has never seen your stack trace and never will.
- Regulated advice — medical, legal, financial. Real experts exist; hire one.
- The news. CrossPolly doesn’t browse the web; it remembers research.
Anatomy of an answer.
The right price for information isn’t what it cost to gather — it’s how much better off you are for having it, measured as what an uninformed person would pay to be made equally happy.
Applied to you: stop pricing your tool against feature lists. Price it against the documented moment it changed someone’s choice — what they’d have paid to solve their three-month problem in twenty minutes.
the score
How hard this principle resonates with the situation you described — not a generic relevance number. High scores are load-bearing; low ones are food for thought.
the principle
A domain-agnostic idea, stripped of its home jargon so it survives the trip from its field to your desk — then re-applied to your exact words.
the source
Real academic research, cited by arXiv ID. Verify it, dig deeper, or argue with the application — the receipt is attached.
Questions from the floor.
Q.Where do the principles come from?
A curated corpus of academic research — currently 22,571 distinct principles distilled from peer-reviewed papers across 28 fields. Each one is a domain-agnostic mental model with its source paper attached, so any claim can be traced back to its origin and challenged there.
Q.How is this different from asking ChatGPT?
A general model gives you a plausible answer drawn from inside your own domain — the same shelf you’ve been staring at. CrossPolly scores every principle in its corpus against your specific situation and surfaces the ones with genuine resonance, usually from fields you would never have searched. The point isn’t another opinion. It’s a foreign mental model.
Q.What does it cost?
Current pricing is whatever the ask page says on the day you ask. Two things hold no matter what: no subscription, nothing auto-renews — and no data is ever sold or used for anything beyond running the service.
exit through the gift shop — the gift shop is a $5 pack
Q.Will my prompt be visible to anyone?
Prompts and responses are stored only to improve quality and prevent abuse. Never sold, never used to train external models, never displayed publicly. The full data practices are in the privacy policy.
Q.What if the answers don’t apply?
Some won’t. That is the honest cost of a tool built to surface unexpected angles. Treat each principle as a starting point for your own judgment, not a pronouncement — and let the scores triage: high scorers tend to be load-bearing, low scorers are provocation.
Q.Can I use it for work decisions?
That’s what it’s built for — strategy calls, positioning, hiring questions, prioritization. Just don’t substitute it for domain expertise on regulated decisions (legal, medical, financial). It’s a thinking partner, not an advisor.
Bring it the thing you’ve been stuck on.
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