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AI TOOLS — S-001 · RESPOND · OPEN

Paste it.
Get the reply.

The message that made your stomach drop, and a draft that answers it in a named strategy — in your phrasing, not a chatbot’s. It runs at clearbound.app.

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OPEN

Respond is running at clearbound.app. The screen below is a mock-up drawn for this page, not a product shot — the real one is behind that link. Anyone who owns a volume pays half.

client wrote
"The homepage looks great! While you're in there, could you also refresh the About and Contact pages? Shouldn't take long."
strategy: price
Glad the homepage landed. Happy to take on About and Contact too — they're outside the current scope, so I'll send a change order for the two pages before I start...
copy

MOCK-UP — NOT A LIVE SCREEN

THREE STEPS, ONE MINUTE

Paste.
Pick.
Send.

STEP 01

Paste the message

The client's email, Slack message or text, plus a line of context if it helps — what was agreed, how many times this has happened. That is the whole input.

STEP 02

Confirm the strategy

Respond proposes one of the nine strategies the volumes use, and says why that one. You can move up or down the ladder — the draft is rebuilt around your choice, because the choice is yours to make, not the model's.

STEP 03

Copy the draft

It lands in your phrasing — your greeting, your sign-off, the length you actually write. One click copies it wherever the conversation is happening.

BUILT FOR THE HARD ONES

The messages you
rewrite five times.

Routine replies do not need help. This is for the ones where the wrong sentence costs you money, a weekend, or the relationship.

01

"While you're in there…"

Scope pushes dressed as small favours — yes to the work, no to doing it free.

02

The weekend "quick call"

Off-hours pressure that becomes the new normal the moment you answer it once.

03

The invoice going quiet

Warm on day five, firm by day thirty — without setting fire to the bridge.

04

"Can you do it for less?"

Discount asks and budget squeezes — holding the number without sounding defensive.

05

Feedback with teeth

The angry email, the vague "it's just not working" — de-escalate and redirect in one reply.

06

The one you're avoiding

Raising your rate, resetting terms, ending it — the emails that sit in drafts for weeks.

IN YOUR VOICE

Sounds like you.
Not like AI.

There is a setup step where you paste a few emails you have actually sent. How you open, how you close, how direct you are — the draft is built to that shape, and the strategy changes the firmness without changing the voice.

generic ai

"Thank you for reaching out. I appreciate your continued trust in my services. Unfortunately, I must respectfully decline to accommodate this request within the existing engagement…"

the same strategy, your voice

"Happy to add those pages — they're new scope though, so let me send a quick change order first. Should have it to you by Thursday."

THE FRAMEWORK UNDERNEATH

Nine strategies,
in one order.

Respond does not pick a tone, it picks a strategy — one of the nine the volumes are built on, arranged by how hard they push. Every draft names the one it used, so you can disagree with the choice rather than with the wording.

CLARIFY Get the facts first — Say nothing about your position until you know what is actually being asked. 0
CONCEDE Do it — once, on the record — Give it, and write down that it was an exception. 1
ANCHOR Point back to what we agreed — Quote the agreement and let it do the arguing. 2
TRADE Yes — if something else moves — Take it on, and something else gives: a date, a deliverable. 3
PRICE Yes — at this price — Take it on, with a number attached. 4
DECLINE No — Say you will not do it. 5
ENFORCE Here's what happens now — Trigger the consequence that was already agreed. 6
CLOSE End it cleanly — Settle up and end the relationship. 7
REPAIR Own it and fix it — The mistake was yours: name it and put a fix on the table. —

The number is intensity, not quality. A situation at the limit is not solved by a firmer sentence in the wrong strategy — it is solved by moving up the ladder. The volumes teach the ladder; the app would apply it to the message in front of you.

THE REST OF THE APP

Three tools,
three problems.

Each one is a separate subscription because each answers a different question. All three are open now.

S-002 Read The tone underneath, and which way to answer. $14/mo S-003 Track A score per client, from what you log — never your inbox. $19/mo — All three How the tools, the volumes and the free checks fit together. Overview

OWN A VOLUME? PAY HALF.

The volumes teach
the moves.

Own any volume and Respond is half price for as long as you subscribe. Six separately is $117; the System is $79 and includes all six.

price

Respond is monthly.

Billed month to month, cancel whenever — it is the only part of ClearBound that is rented rather than bought. Own any volume and it is half price for as long as you subscribe.

$9/mo $4.50 with a volume
Get the System — $79 → Start with one — from $16 →

ABOUT RESPOND

Straight
answers.

Can I use it now?

Yes. Respond is running at clearbound.app — make an account and it is there. A subscription unlocks it, and owning any volume halves the price.

How is this different from asking a chatbot?

A general chatbot writes a polite email. The whole point here is the move under the email: which of the nine strategies fits what the evidence and the history actually support, and what that choice costs you. The wording is the easy half.

Is what I paste in safe?

The design rule is narrow on purpose: anything you paste is used to produce the one answer you asked for, and nothing else. Not published, not sold, not used as training data. The privacy policy says this in the terms you can hold us to.

Will I need the volumes to use it?

No. They are separate purchases and each works alone. They do pull in the same direction: the volumes teach the reasoning, the app applies it to a message the volumes could not have anticipated.

How does the half price work?

Own any volume and every app tool is 50% off for as long as you subscribe. Buying a volume now is the way to have it — the ladder starts at $16, and the six-volume System is $79.