The Partnership
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The Partnership

A voice training journey built on Magnus’s second book, AI Don’t Make You Smarter — The Partnership Does. You talk to an AI counterpart, it makes a case, and exactly one thing it says is wrong. Your job is to catch it.

Currently the Stage 0 prototype — one unit, three difficulty bands, scored on verification. Nothing more gets built until that gate passes on real testers.

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3
difficulty bands — visible, plausible, load-bearing
1
planted error per scenario, always authored
0–3
scored against an anchor table, with evidence
On device
speech in, reasoning, speech out

What it does

Becoming a better partner to AI. By voice, one drill at a time.

01

Catch the planted error

Each scenario contains exactly one error. It is authored, never improvised by the model — so the drill is the same drill for everyone, and the score means something.

02

Three bands

Visible, plausible, and load-bearing. The load-bearing band is designed to catch out people who comfortably beat the visible one.

03

Scored on verification

A separate model session grades 0–3 against a published anchor table, citing the evidence it used. Not vibes.

04

By voice

Hold to talk. Speech recognition, reasoning and speech synthesis all run on the phone — the counterpart answers in character, out loud.

05

Nothing leaves the device

No transcript, no audio, no scores are transmitted. There is no server to transmit them to.

06

An honest gate

The prototype records its own evidence — score, whether the tester agreed, time to catch, whether the plant leaked — and exports a go/no-go report. If the scoring is arbitrary, the project stops.

Privacy

Built so there is nothing to leak

The full policy is on the privacy page. The short version:

No accountThere is nothing to sign up for and no password to lose.
No serverThe app has no backend. Your content has nowhere to be sent.
On-device AIGeneration runs on Apple's Foundation Models, on your phone.
Works offlineIt does its job in airplane mode.

Pricing

What it costs

Prototype

Not yet on sale
Stage 0 gate in progress
  • Requires iPhone 15 Pro or newer on iOS 26
  • Apple Intelligence must be enabled
  • Foundation Models does not run on simulators

Questions

Before you ask

Can I try it?

Not yet. It is a prototype being run against a small number of testers to decide whether the concept survives.

What is the book?

AI Don't Make You Smarter — The Partnership Does, Magnus's second book.

About the author

Magnus Oxenwaldt is VP Group AI at Columbus Global. Two decades in enterprise architecture — ERP, integration, customer engagement, and now AI. He hosts the Future Bytes podcast, speaks at executive forums and board off-sites, and writes at oxenwaldt.com.