01 — Cut
Read and cut in the same pane.
Paste a URL. Read the article. Select, press H / S / W. The card writes itself in Verbatim-compatible formatting.
Verba
for debate
Verba
for debate
Verba is a keyboard-first evidence tool for competitive debate. Paste an article, press H S W, and save a round-ready card in under a minute. An assistant trained on your cards helps you find the right warrant in every round.
The assistant
Verba's assistant is trained on a corpus of over 100k competitive debate cards — plus every card in your library. Ask in natural language, get answers grounded in evidence you can actually read in round, with every claim traced back to a cite.
The assistant indexes a corpus of over 100,000 competitive debate cards plus every card in your library — tag, cite, body, and highlights — with a separate vector store per project so cross-contamination never happens.
/find, /compare, /answer, /block.
Every major open-evidence backfile, camp release, and topic starter. Indexed, embedded, and ready to recall the moment you ask.
Every card you save is embedded on save. No training step, no wait — it's searchable the moment you hit ⌘↵.
Your library indexes only your workspace. We never use your cards to train foundation models. Per-project sharing is explicit and off by default.
The evidence library
Filter by side, topic, or project. Type to search across tags, cites, and body text. Press / from anywhere in the app.
Pressure without an exit ramp produces the behavior it claims to deter
Mahbubani · Foreign Affairs · 3/24
Back-channel talks are live — a deal is possible now
Parsi · Quincy Institute · 2/24
Abstraction of sanctions masks the material violence of the dollar system
Ali · New Left Review · 1/24
Flexibility DA — curtailment collapses crisis response
Zarate · CSIS · 10/23
Taiwan Strait — de-escalation now avoids inadvertent war
Glaser · International Security · 1/24
Treating persons as means collapses the basis for any obligation
Korsgaard · Sources of Normativity · reprint
Threat construction produces the insecurity it purports to resolve
Campbell · Writing Security · reprint
Subsets — affirmative must defend all instances, not just one
[T] Subsets Masterfile · 2024
How it fits together
Paste a URL. Read the article. Select, press H / S / W. The card writes itself in Verbatim-compatible formatting.
One searchable store across every project and tournament. Instant filter by side, topic, cite, date, or body word.
⇧E builds a round doc in priority order. Opens cleanly in Verbatim-style templates. No reformat.
Pricing
For individual debaters.
For teams sharing a backfile.
For coaches, camps, departments.
FAQ
Yes. Import .docx backfiles with highlighting, warrants, and shrinks preserved. Exports open in Verbatim-style templates without reformat.
No. It searches and ranks cards you've already cut. Warrants come from your evidence — the model is configured to refuse invented claims.
Your cards index only your workspace. We do not use them to train foundation models. Per-project sharing is explicit and you can turn it off any time.
Editing works offline. Library sync resumes on reconnect. The assistant falls back to on-device cached embeddings.
$9 per debater per month. First 30 days free. Cancel any time — your cards stay yours.