24 AUG 2026
Tingvar vs AskVerdict
Both put several AI personas against one decision. AskVerdict does it in writing, so the personas take turns. Tingvar does it out loud, so they cut each other off and so can you.
Where they are ahead of us
On almost everything except the product. Read from www.askverdict.ai/sitemap.xml and www.askverdict.ai/docs on 23 August 2026: 169 URLs declared in their own sitemap, a 58 page documentation tree, a REST interface, a TypeScript library, a command line tool and streaming schemas. It also has a trust surface with a data processing agreement and a sub-processor list, a status page, a changelog, and the option to bring your own model key. We will not match that content surface at launch and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
One of their pages is better than anything we had before we copied it. A calibration page that explains a method and reports insufficient data to plot the curve, read from www.askverdict.ai/calibration on 23 August 2026. That is a page that concedes something, and it is the reason a reader believes the rest of the site. Our evidence page is built on the same principle and it exists because of theirs.
Their writing also already ranks on the argument we are making. If you are choosing on how much has been published about a category, they win that comparison and it is not close.
One material difference, and it is the medium
AskVerdict is text. A read of 195 of their pages found no page about voice, and every use of the word on the site is a metaphor. That is not a criticism of the writing. It is a fact about what the product can do, and it has one consequence that matters: in text there is nothing in progress, so nothing can be cut off. Their personas rebut each other in completed written turns and you read the result afterwards.
In a room, one persona holds the floor at a time and your voice takes it from whoever has it, mid sentence. That is the whole of what the second product buys you over the first, and if it is not worth anything to you then AskVerdict is the better choice today.
Row by row
| Tingvar | AskVerdict | |
|---|---|---|
| Modality | Live audio room | Text. A read of 195 pages found no page about voice |
| Can you interrupt it | Yes. Speaking takes the floor from whoever holds it | There is nothing in progress to interrupt |
| Can the agents interrupt each other | Yes, and the room decides who holds the floor | No. Their agents rebut each other in written turns |
| What separates the agents | What each optimises for, plus a published blind spot for each | Six personas, described by role |
| Published blind spots | Yes, one per persona, on /personas | Not published. Their own /personas returns 404 |
| Published latency figure | Median 1471 ms, 95th percentile 1986 ms, from 122 readings in us-central1 on 19 August 2026 | Not published |
| Public API | Not at launch | Yes. REST, a TypeScript library, a command line tool and streaming, across 58 documented pages |
| Case studies | None. Zero real human sessions have taken place | Seven, and none of them names a company or a person |
| Trust surface | A trust centre, a sub-processor list naming the model vendor, and a pre-signed data processing agreement | A data processing agreement and a sub-processor list of five vendors, none of them a model vendor |
| Comparison values without JavaScript | Server rendered text in every cell | Their feature matrix values and fifteen pricing answers are rendered by script and are absent without it |
| Hero positioning | One statement, and no test of it at launch | Four hero variants ship at once, with a rotating line that matches none of them |
| An empty metric published as empty | Six defined metrics with targets and no values, on /evidence | Their calibration page reports insufficient data to plot its curve |
When to use each
Reach for AskVerdict
- You want to run this from your own code, today, against a documented interface.
- You want a written record to circulate rather than an argument to sit through.
- Your procurement process needs a trust surface that already exists.
- You want to read the output later rather than be in the room now.
Reach for Tingvar
- You want to be interrupted, and to interrupt.
- You want to hear where two advisers split, at the moment they split.
- You want each persona's blind spot published rather than inferred.
Questions about this comparison
How is Tingvar different from AskVerdict?
AskVerdict's product is text and Tingvar's is speech, so their personas cannot interrupt each other and you cannot interrupt them, because there is nothing to interrupt. Where they are ahead of us, stated here rather than left for you to find: AskVerdict ships an API, an SDK and a command line tool, and publishes seven case studies. We have none of those. What we have is a spoken room you can cut into and a measured latency figure.
How we compare
Every claim about another product on this site is a fact that product publishes about itself, read from its own pages on the date below. Where a product publishes nothing on a point, the cell reads not published, because an absent published fact is not an absent capability. Our own weaknesses are in the same table, in the same column style.
Compared on 23 August 2026
Sources
| Claim | Read on their own pages at | Read on |
|---|---|---|
| Text only, with no page about voice across 195 pages | www.askverdict.ai, full corpus read | 23 August 2026 |
| 169 URLs declared in their own sitemap, a 58 page documentation tree, a REST interface, a TypeScript library, a command line tool and streaming schemas | www.askverdict.ai/sitemap.xml and www.askverdict.ai/docs | 23 August 2026 |
| Seven case studies naming no company and no person | www.askverdict.ai case study pages | 23 August 2026 |
| A calibration page that explains a method and reports insufficient data to plot the curve | www.askverdict.ai/calibration | 23 August 2026 |
| Their own /personas, /faq, /support, /trust, /enterprise and /refund-policy return 404 | Direct requests to each path on www.askverdict.ai | 23 August 2026 |
| A sub-processor list of five vendors, none of them a model vendor | www.askverdict.ai sub-processor page | 23 August 2026 |
| Feature matrix values and fifteen pricing answers rendered by script and absent without it | www.askverdict.ai/pricing, fetched with scripting disabled | 23 August 2026 |
| Four hero variants shipping at once, with a rotating line matching none of them | The shipped JavaScript bundle of www.askverdict.ai | 23 August 2026 |
Right of reply
If you work at one of these companies and something here is wrong, email corrections@tingvar.com. We correct it within 1 business day and log the correction publicly.
Correction log
- 26 August 2026 The documentation tree was published at two different sizes on this page, one in the text and one in the source ledger below. Both now read 58 pages, which is the number of pages under their own /docs on the date beside every claim here.
The part you cannot read about
Whether being argued at out loud is worth anything is not something a comparison table can settle. Hear the four voices