Roommate fight, a verdict in minutes
A roommate left passive-aggressive sticky notes on the fridge for a week. The other one pretended they didn't exist. Classic standoff.
We built Verdict Buddy at Inithouse as an AI conflict mediator, and this is exactly the kind of thing it handles.
Here's how it works: both sides describe the conflict in their own words. No moderator, no waiting for a friend to pick a side. Verdict Buddy runs both versions through psychology frameworks (Gottman, EFT, NVC) and produces a structured verdict.
The output that surprises people most: a tension score showing how heated the conflict actually is, a breakdown of both perspectives so each person sees their own blind spots, and three concrete actions. Not vague advice, but specific next steps like "agree on a shared grocery list by Sunday."
The whole thing takes about two minutes. No account needed.
What caught us off guard building this at Inithouse: people don't just use it for big fights. They use it for small, low-stakes disagreements. Thermostat settings, whose turn it is to take out the trash, whether the shared Netflix queue needs rules. Turns out those small frictions are the ones that actually pile up.