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ArkhamMirror

CIA's Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, Runs in Browser

Details

External ID
46341493
Source
HN
Company
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Product
ArkhamMirror
Website domain
github.io
Launched
Dec. 21, 2025
Cohort
—
Upvotes
8
Upvotes percentile
0.4217557251908397
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

After adding a fully guided, AI-assisted Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) feature to ArkhamMirror, my privacy-first open-source Investigative analysis platform, I kept hearing the same request: "I just want to try ACH without setting up Docker and databases."Message received. I built a standalone version that runs entirely in your browser.Live tool: https://mantisfury.github.io/ArkhamMirror/ach/ Full ArkhamMirror repo: https://github.com/mantisfury/ArkhamMirrorWhat it does:Implements Heuer's 8-step ACH methodology (the CIA technique for avoiding confirmation bias) Guides you through identifying hypotheses, gathering evidence, building the consistency matrix, and running sensitivity analysis Exports to JSON, Markdown, or PDFPrivacy model:All data stored in browser localStorage Zero network calls after initial page load except to/from your AI provider (if applicable) No backend, no accounts, no telemetry Works offline once loaded Built as part of ArkhamMirror, a 100% local investigative platform I made as a non-coder using AI assistants.Optional AI assistance:Connect your own API key (OpenAI, Groq) for AI-powered suggestions Or use local LLMs (Ollama, LM Studio, local Anthropic through proxy) if you run it locally The AI helps suggest hypotheses, evidence items, and ratings – but you make all decisionsWhy standalone? The full ArkhamMirror platform is powerful but requires Docker + databases. This gives journalists, analysts and anyone who's curious a zero-friction way to try the ACH methodology immediately.Analysts have been stuck with crappy spreadsheets for a long time. Now they (and you) have a free upgrade. Source: https://github.com/mantisfury/ArkhamMirror/tree/main/ach-sta...If you try it out, please let me know what you think.

Enrichment

Theme
browser automation and scraping for AI
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Analytics & BI
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
analysis of competing hypotheses tool
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a browser-based analysis matrix UI implementing the standard Analysis of Competing Hypotheses methodology with optional LLM API integrations.

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Launched 29 days after the earliest competitor.

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