CARDINALCARDINAL
SHARPEN YOUR DEBATE.
Cut cleaner cards, flow every drop, and answer arguments with an edge — the whole debater's arsenal, sharpened into one place.
Free to start · Pro $10/month or $75/year · See pricing
ONE ARSENAL. EVERY ROUND.
Every tool a debater needs to walk in sharper than the other team.
AI Card Cutter
Paste an article and a tag — Cardinal finds the strongest passage and highlights the exact words you read aloud.
FreeSearch
Type a claim. Cardinal searches the web and opencaselist, then cuts ready-to-run cards from credible sources.
FreeFlow
Flow the round in a grid. The AI flags dropped arguments with an arrow and an ✕ — or mark them yourself.
FreeRe-Highlighter
Re-cut a card's highlighting, or paste an opponent's card to expose its contradictions and turns.
FreeWord Count
Upload a doc and count only the highlighted words you actually read aloud — know your speech length.
★ ProRhetoric Mode
Turn any card into a smooth spoken sentence — the evidence stays word-for-word, only the delivery gets polished.
★ ProThe Archive
Pre-made kritiks, topicality, theory, framework, spark and wipeout — ready to browse, copy, and run.
★ ProMy Cases
Organize cards into files and contentions, then export a whole case to a single Word doc.
★ ProPractice Rounds
Run live rounds with synced timers, prep clocks, chat, and an AI judge that hands back a rubric ballot.
★ ProJudge Prep
Paste a paradigm for a cheat-sheet, or look up a judge's Tabroom record — how often they vote Aff vs Neg across their history.
★ ProAI Coach
A conversational coach that pulls real cards from your library and Archive to build cited blocks.
★ ProBe the first to review Cardinal
Cardinal is brand new. Tried it? Leave a review — yours could be the first here.
Join the community
Swap strategies, share cards, and get help from other debaters in our Discord.
Join our Discord →