Standalone Tools

Single-purpose tools that operate without engaging the full Ora orchestrator. Each tool wraps one of the analytical frameworks in a focused interface — paste an input, get a structured output. Useful in their own right; also a low-friction way to see what the methodology produces before installing anything.

The pages below describe each tool. The tools themselves are separate infrastructure and ship at their own pace; Ora is still being completed, and the standalone tooling layer is downstream of the core system. This hub will populate with live interfaces as each tool reaches the gate for external use.

What "standalone" means here

Ora's full system runs locally and composes the framework library, the persistent vault, the dispatch logic, and the adversarial review pipeline into a single working environment. That is the operating mode the rest of the site describes. A standalone tool inverts the relationship: one framework, one input, one output, accessible from a browser without any local install.

The trade-off is deliberate. Standalone tools cannot draw on the user's vault, cannot accumulate across sessions, cannot route a question through more than one framework when the work warrants it. What they can do is hand a visitor a clean expression of one analytical operation, applied to material the visitor brings, with the output structured the way the framework specifies. For many questions, that is enough on its own. For the questions where it is not, the standalone output becomes a useful piece of orientation toward the framework page or the full Ora install.

Available tools

Propaganda Analyzer

Audits a piece of media — op-ed, advertisement, manifesto, political artifact — for the structural devices of persuasion engineering. Metaphor inventory, framing operations, frame-functions, selection and salience, motte-and-bailey detection. Distinguishes propaganda (intentional persuasion engineering) from argument-with-frame-imports. Existing media-literacy tools focus on fact-checking individual claims; the Propaganda Analyzer focuses on the structural mechanics — the architecture under the claims.

Framework Classifier

Takes a question or problem the visitor wants to think about and classifies which of the Ora analytical frameworks (or combination of frameworks) is best suited to the question, with a brief explanation of why. Ora carries forty-plus frameworks across five super-clusters; knowing which to apply is itself a meta-skill, and one the Classifier removes as a bottleneck for new users.

Values Articulator

A structured interview that helps the visitor elicit their own values. Built on the MindSpec methodology — the same framework Ora uses to build the values substrate for its other operations. Most "values" exercises produce performative lists; the MindSpec interview uses forced-choice scenarios and lived-context elicitation to get past the performative layer. The output is a personalised specification the visitor can keep, modify, and use elsewhere.

Future tools

More tools will be added incrementally to the same hub structure as the underlying frameworks mature into single-purpose interfaces. Personality simulator for chatbot creators, diagram-analysis tool, image work with framework support, and others. Each addition is a small surfacing event for people who may have missed earlier ones rather than a marketing push. The list here grows when something is genuinely ready, not on a schedule.

The framework library — the full collection the standalone tools are drawn from.
The methodology — the architectural treatment of how the frameworks compose into something larger.
Download Ora — the full system, for visitors who want the orchestrator behind the standalone surfaces.