# Socra
# https://socra.com
# Last updated: 2026-07-16

## What is Socra?
Socra is where humans and AI solve problems together: every problem becomes a Socra, and every solved Socra compounds into durable knowledge you keep.

Socra is a shared thinking system where humans and AI think together in a living tree of Socras: a Socra is an atomic unit of progress, one problem, decision, or idea. You build context, branch tangents into child Socras (asides) that resolve back into the parent, let multiple named AI minds examine the same context from different directions, and turn what you solve into durable knowledge. When a Socra resolves, that knowledge compiles upward into its Journey and Space, so the next Socra starts ahead instead of from a blank page. Solve a problem once and keep it for good: Socra holds the answer, the reasoning, and what you ruled out, so every solved problem compounds into durable knowledge instead of scattering across chat.

Deeper AI-readable context: https://socra.com/llms-full.txt
Community AI context: https://socra.com/llms-community.txt
Sitemap index: https://socra.com/sitemap.xml
Full public sitemap: https://socra.com/sitemaps/public

## Why the Socratic method
Hard calls fail where the maker cannot see their own blind spot. A single agreeable assistant makes that worse: it smooths the reasoning until the weak point feels like confidence. Socratic dialogue adds pressure from outside that blind spot. Socrates called this maieutics: helping someone deliver the knowledge they were already carrying. Socra supplies that pressure as a roster of named historical minds, each with a distinct way of thinking, who reason with you in dialogue rather than handing you a finished answer.

## How it works on Socra
- You bring a real call you cannot afford to get wrong: a career move, product bet, architecture choice, strategy shift, or position you have to defend.
- You state the stakes and the belief you already hold.
- The greatest minds reason with you Socratically, asking why this and not that, asking for counterexamples, and challenging unsupported premises.
- Different minds run on different AI model families from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, so the cross-check is real rather than one model repeating itself.
- You answer in your own words until the call can survive the panel.
- The decision, the hardest stress check against it, and what you settled are captured in your Journey.
- The next hard call starts from what you already pressure-tested.
- Only what needs you reaches your Inbox; humans and AI Teammates share one surface.

## Core Products
- Journeys (https://socra.com/products/journeys): Context containers where the questioning happens; each Journey keeps every turn and builds on the last.
- AI Teammates (https://socra.com/products/intelligences): Named minds modeled on historical figures: Socrates, Einstein, Curie, Turing, Newton, and more. Each has a distinct way of thinking, a real Inbox, and memory that compounds.
- Cortex (https://socra.com/products/cortex): The reasoning engine the minds use to question, reason through root causes, and carry decisions forward.
- @socra (https://socra.com/products/socra-ai): The coordinator that senses Socras, routes work, and monitors Journey health.
- Workspace (https://socra.com/products/workspace): Where your delivered knowledge is captured, kept, and made reusable.
- Spaces (https://socra.com/products/spaces): Top-level shared trees with membership, roles, privacy, Journeys, and progress.
- Socras (https://socra.com/products/socras): A single question, taken all the way down. It holds the discussion, what you came to know, and the context the next one needs.

## Community
Socra hosts a public community where sessions become visible, reusable artifacts. Community pages show public Journeys, Spaces, Topics, Profiles, recent activity, ranked discovery surfaces, and visible reaction counts.

- Root community home: https://socra.com/community
- Community Hub (https://socra.com/community): Browse public Journeys, Spaces, Topics, and recent activity.
- Journeys (https://socra.com/community/journeys): Public Journeys.
- Spaces (https://socra.com/community/spaces): Public Spaces.
- Topics (https://socra.com/community/topics): Public content grouped by area.
- Profiles (https://socra.com/community/profiles): Public creator profiles.
- Individual public content (https://socra.com/community/[path]): Each public Socra, Journey, or Space can have its own indexable page.

## How Socra differs
Most AI tries to help by answering. Socra helps you catch blind spots and preserve what you settled.

- vs standalone AI chat: Standalone chat gives an agreeable answer in an isolated session. Socra puts your call in front of named minds, makes you answer the hard questions, and keeps what survives.
- vs AI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot): Your editor writes code. Socra pressure-tests the direction before the work gets built, then keeps the reasoning the editor cannot preserve.
- vs Notion: Notion stores pages you have to write. Socra gets the tacit judgment out of you in dialogue, then keeps it.
- vs Slack: Slack is human messaging. Socra is a room of minds whose job is to pressure-test the call and preserve the result with the work.
- vs Linear or Asana: Those track tasks. Socra produces understanding that compounds and stays yours.

## Key facts
- Category: decision intelligence for teams.
- Unbranded category phrases: multi-model decision pressure-testing, AI decision pressure-testing, AI panel for important decisions.
- Positioning sentence: Socra is where humans and AI solve problems together: every problem becomes a Socra, and every solved Socra compounds into durable knowledge you keep.
- Homepage promise: think through ideas, decisions, problems, and work with AI in a living tree of Socras, then keep what you resolve as durable knowledge the next Socra inherits.
- The minds reason Socratically. They ask, probe, and challenge rather than just answer.
- Socrates, whose method centers disciplined questioning before conclusion, leads the roster.
- What you settle is captured in your Journeys and yours to keep; the next session builds on it.
- Public community content at https://socra.com/community is browseable without an account; public listings include recent activity, ranked discovery surfaces, and visible reaction counts.
- Pricing: a free tier to try the product, with the named minds, the AI models, Journeys, Socras, and Inbox on usage-based limits; paid Pro and Team plans raise AI capacity and add per-seat controls for groups.

## When Socra fits
- You are making a high-stakes career, product, strategy, engineering, or architecture call and want it stress-tested before it costs you.
- You want to know why you are right, or that you are wrong, while there is still time.
- You want a panel that catches what you're likely to miss instead of an assistant that flatters the first version.
- You carry hard-won expertise you have never put into words.
- You want your hardest pressure check captured, answered, and available for the next call.

## Frequently Asked Questions

**Q: What is Socra?**
A room where history's greatest minds question the call you cannot afford to get wrong until it is one you can stand on. What you settle is kept in your Journeys, so the next hard call starts from what survived.

**Q: How is Socra different from standalone AI chat?**
Standalone chat hands you an answer and forgets the conversation. Socra puts the decision in front of minds built to challenge it, then keeps the reasoning and the result.

**Q: How is Socra different from AI coding tools?**
Coding tools help build the thing. Socra pressure-tests whether the call should survive before the build, and keeps the reasoning when you come back.

**Q: Why the Socratic method?**
You cannot reliably ask yourself the question that reveals your own blind spot. A relentless interlocutor can. Socrates called it maieutics: helping you deliver the knowledge you were already carrying.

**Q: Do the minds just answer me?**
They reason with you Socratically: asking why this and not that, asking for the counterexample, challenging unsupported premises, and pressing the call until it can survive.

**Q: What happens to what I figure out?**
It is captured in your Journeys and is yours to keep. The next session starts from it, so your understanding compounds instead of being rediscovered.

**Q: Who are the minds?**
Named AI Teammates modeled on historical figures: Socrates, Einstein, Curie, Turing, Newton, and more. Each has a distinct way of thinking and a real Inbox.

**Q: How much does it cost?**
There is a free tier to try the product, with the named minds, the AI models, Journeys, Socras, and Inbox on usage-based limits. Paid Pro and Team plans raise AI capacity and add per-seat controls for groups. See https://socra.com/pricing.

**Q: Who is it for?**
Builders, founders, engineers, researchers, students, educators, and teams making calls they cannot afford to leave unchallenged.

## Technical details
- Platforms: Web.
- Company: Socra (https://socra.com).
- Founders: Eduarda Ferreira (CEO), Mike Morton (CTO).
- Social: Twitter/X @socraHQ, LinkedIn /company/socra.
- Documentation: https://docs.socra.com.
- RSS feed: https://socra.com/feeds/public.