ArkhamMirror
CIA's Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, Runs in Browser
Details
- External ID
- 46341493
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- ArkhamMirror
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Dec. 21, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4217557251908397
- Tags
- —
- 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.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 26 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 27 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 29 days after the earliest competitor.
- Echo · hn · 2026-07-23 · 484 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- hypoarena · github · 2026-09-30 · 544 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- MAGA or Not? Political alignment scores for people and companies · hn · 2026-03-22 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Agentic Data Analysis with Claude Code · hn · 2026-03-10 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- CoAutoResearch · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice · hn · 2026-08-10 · 215 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- منهجي الذكي Manhaji AI · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- Huzzah · hn · 2026-08-20 · 384 upvotes · similarity 0.32
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a analytics & bi tool for Legal yet.