Perspective Now Knows Who Its Thinkers Are

Every thinker in Perspective now links to a profile with a portrait, a Wikipedia summary and every take they have given. Plus saved question pages, shared Verafy credits and a header that works on a phone.

Oct 27, 2026PerspectiveVerafy

Perspective is for questions with no right answer. You ask something like "Is there free will?" and it convenes a council of AI models to lay out how different eras, traditions and regions answer it, side by side. It is part of Verafy.

This week I shipped the changes that turn it from a page of answers into something you can explore.

The Perspective front page, with the headline One answer hides the argument, a short explanation, an ask bar with the placeholder Is there free will?, and suggested questions under Try.

The front page. Ask a question, or start from one of the suggestions.

Every name is a link

Before, a thinker's name was just text on a card. Now every name is a teal link with a small bust icon, and it opens a profile at /thinker/ followed by their name. The links appear everywhere a thinker does: council cards, the picker, compare rows, featured teasers, agreements and fault lines.

The Council section showing 12 perspectives with era filters for All, Ancient, Medieval, Modern and Non-Western, and cards for Epicurus, Aristotle and Lucretius with their names as links.

A council of 12 perspectives. Each name opens that thinker's profile.

A profile has a portrait, or a monogram when there is no portrait, a link to Wikipedia, a short summary marked as coming from Wikipedia, and the thinker's saved takes grouped by question. I cache the Wikipedia summaries so a profile does not depend on a live call. Common short names redirect to the right page, so /thinker/buddha lands on /thinker/the-buddha. Profiles are in the sitemap and each one has its own share card.

The Aristotle profile page with a portrait of a marble bust, the label Greek philosophy, Ancient, Greece, a Wikipedia link, and a paragraph summary followed by the note Summary from Wikipedia.

Aristotle's profile. On the live site it collects 37 saved takes.

The takes come only from councils that were actually run and saved. Nothing on a profile is written fresh for the profile.

Fault lines read like sentences

The fault lines section is where the council disagrees. It used to cut bullets off mid-thought. Now each bullet ends on a complete sentence, and the thinker names inside it are links too.

The Fault lines section of a council, with bullets naming Aristotle, Epicurus, Lucretius and Kant as links and describing where their answers split.

Where the council splits, with each name linked to its profile.

Pick your own council

The picker filters by era, tradition and region. You select the thinkers you want, then compare them, ask for more, or contrast one view against the rest. Each card shows the claim, a plain paraphrase, and the source it came from.

The philosopher picker with filters for Era, Tradition and Region, two selected cards for Augustine of Hippo and Ibn Tufayl, each with a tradition tag, a claim, a paraphrase, a source and a Contrast this button, plus Get more and Compare buttons.

Two thinkers selected from the Abrahamic group, ready to compare.

The tag on each card now sits in normal flow, so a longer name like Augustine of Hippo no longer breaks in the middle of a word.

Questions are saved

Each question now has its own page at /q/ followed by the question. Asking the same question again reuses the saved council instead of running a new one. There is a /questions index with 52 starter questions, and all of it is in the sitemap, so a good answer can be found and shared.

One header, one balance

Perspective now uses the same header as the rest of Verafy: the mark, the name, a Beta tag, Perspectivepedia, a quiet link back to Verafy.ai and one credits pill. Credits are shared across verafy.ai, Bias Detector, Swarm Explorer, Fact Checker and Perspective, so one balance works everywhere. A fresh council costs 25 credits. Under 1100px the menu comes first and the header holds together down to 320px.

Three phone screenshots of Perspective. The first shows the front page and ask bar, the second shows the Council with 12 perspectives and era filters, and the third shows the Aristotle profile with Jump to question links.

The front page, a council and a profile at phone width.

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