Frequently Asked Questions

The right end of the horizontal axis on your Mental Map. Represents thinking through systems, logic, data, causality, patterns, and structure. Rits that land on the Analytical side tend to ask "how does this work?" rather than "how does this feel?"

The average of all your Rit Distance scores over time. Shows whether you tend to think in surprising, unconventional ways (high avg distance) or stick closer to conventional answers (low avg distance). A higher score means the AI's perspective shifted further from what a standard answer would have been — a sign of genuinely lateral thinking.

A question or topic posted by a team admin that every team member responds to individually — each with their own Thinking Mode and perspective. Members submit their Rits without seeing each other's answers until the reveal. This prevents groupthink: everyone thinks independently first.

The full workflow around Challenges: create → rit independently → reveal → Collision Report. Available on the Team plan.

Approaches your question with the naivety and directness of a five-year-old. Strips away the assumptions adults take for granted. Asks "but why?" one level deeper than feels comfortable. Often reveals the most fundamental premise you forgot to question.

An AI-generated analysis produced after a Challenge reveal. Shows how team members' perspectives clustered, which viewpoints are underrepresented, and where structural divergences exist — for example, when sales and engineering land in opposite quadrants of the Mental Map. Exportable as PDF.

A Rit that goes deeper into an existing node. Instead of starting fresh, you take an existing Rit and ask the AI to explore it further — the same question, pushed one level deeper. Deep Rits are connected to their parent node in the Mental Map. Free users get 1 Deep Rit per node; Pro users get 5; Team users get 5.

The left end of the horizontal axis on your Mental Map. Represents thinking through feelings, relationships, trust, fear, beauty, and meaning. Rits that land on the Emotional side tend to ask "how does this feel?" or "what does this mean to me?"

Upper-left quadrant. You feel about the world. Questions like "Why do people suffer?", "What makes a culture?", "Is morality universal?" land here. This quadrant holds thinking that is both Emotional in nature and Universal in scope — feeling into humanity at large.

Responds to your question as if an intelligence from another civilization is encountering the concept for the very first time — no cultural baggage, no assumed context. Useful for questioning what you've always taken for granted. "What is money?" becomes genuinely strange when seen with fresh eyes.

What happens after you've used your daily Sonnet Rit quota (20 for Pro, 50 for Team). Instead of stopping, the AI switches to the faster Haiku model automatically. Flow Mode is for unlimited, fast-paced brainstorming. The quality difference is real but subtle — Sonnet is more nuanced, Haiku is quicker and broader. Shown as "⚡ Flow Mode" in the UI.

A Rit generated with the Claude Haiku model — faster, lighter, and included in Flow Mode (unlimited for Pro and Team users). Haiku Rits are great for rapid-fire thinking. See also: Sonnet Rit, Flow Mode.

Flips the hidden premise of your question. Every question contains an assumption — Invert finds it and reverses it. "Why are we losing customers after onboarding?" becomes "Under what conditions would customers never want to leave?" The answer often reveals what the original question was protecting you from seeing.

A permanent, personal map of everything you've ever thought about on Neurit. Each Rit becomes a node, placed on two fixed axes:

• —Horizontal axis: Emotional ↔ Analytical (how you think)
• —Vertical axis: Personal ↔ Universal (what you think about)

The position is deterministic — the same question always lands at the same point, for every user. Over time, the Mental Map shows which areas of thinking you return to, and which you've never explored.

The four quadrants are: Empathic Thinker (upper-left), Systems Thinker (upper-right), Reflective Thinker (lower-left), Strategic Thinker (lower-right).

A re-Rit of an existing question with a different Thinking Mode. Same question, completely different perspective. If you originally asked something in Invert mode, New Lens lets you ask it again in Child Mind, Paradox, or any other mode. The value is in the comparison — seeing how the same question looks through six different lenses.

Finds the internal contradiction inside your question and makes it the center of the answer. Every question contains a tension — Paradox surfaces it. "How do I become freer?" might produce: "The more deliberately you pursue freedom, the more it becomes a cage." Uncomfortable answers that usually stick.

The bottom end of the vertical axis on your Mental Map. Represents thinking about your own life: your career, your body, your relationships, your habits, your identity. Rits that land here are about you specifically, not humanity in general.

Lower-left quadrant. You feel about yourself. Questions like "Why am I anxious?", "Who do I trust?", "What makes me happy?" land here. This quadrant holds thinking that is Emotional in nature and Personal in scope — introspection and self-examination.

A match between your Rit and another user's Rit based on deep semantic similarity. Two people independently thinking about the same thing in different ways. Your original question is never revealed — only the AI-generated answer is compared. A Resonance means: someone else on Neurit was in the same territory of thought as you, even if they used completely different words.

The core unit of Neurit. When you type a question, the AI transforms it through a Thinking Mode into a lateral perspective (the Shift), then generates an answer from that shifted viewpoint. The result — question + shift + answer — is a Rit. It gets embedded, placed on your Mental Map, and becomes part of your permanent thinking record.

How far the AI's answer is from a conventional answer to the same question. Calculated by comparing the AI's actual answer to what a standard, unsurprising answer would have been. A high Rit Distance means the thinking was genuinely lateral — the AI went somewhere unexpected. A low Rit Distance means the result stayed close to the obvious. Shown as a badge on each Rit.

An overlay of all team members' Mental Maps on one shared canvas. Each person's nodes are color-coded by member or role. Edges appear automatically between nodes from different team members that share semantic similarity. Useful for spotting where the team thinks in alignment — and where they diverge. Available on the Team plan.

The transformed version of your question — the core of what Neurit does. The AI takes your question and reframes it through the lens of your chosen Thinking Mode. The Shift is not the answer; it's a new version of the question seen from an unexpected angle. You see the Shift before the answer, so you can feel the pivot.

A Rit generated with Claude Sonnet — the most capable model available on Neurit. More nuanced, more surprising, more likely to produce a perspective you haven't considered. Free users get 3 Sonnet Rits per day (hard limit). Pro users get 20 per day before switching to Flow Mode. Team users get 50. Shown as "✨ Deep Mode" in the UI.

Lower-right quadrant. You analyze your own life. Questions like "Should I quit my job?", "How do I get more clients?", "What's my competitive advantage?" land here. This quadrant holds thinking that is Analytical in nature and Personal in scope — systematic thinking about your own situation.

Upper-right quadrant. You analyze the world. Questions like "How does evolution work?", "Why do wars happen?", "What drives economic cycles?" land here. This quadrant holds thinking that is Analytical in nature and Universal in scope — structural thinking about how the world operates.

An AI-generated observation about your thinking patterns, shown in the Mental Map view. Appears after your first 10 Rits. Three types: (1) Topic clusters — what themes keep coming up. (2) Surprising connections — two Rits that are semantically close but have completely different tags. (3) Blind spots — areas of thinking you haven't explored, with a suggested question to try.

The lens the AI uses to reframe your question. There are six modes: Invert, Child Mind, First Contact, Time Shift, Zoom Out, Paradox. Free users get access to 3; Pro and Team users get all 6. Each mode produces a fundamentally different kind of insight from the same question.

A snapshot of your thinking style, generated automatically every 5 Rits. Describes which topics you return to, which modes you prefer, and which quadrants of the Mental Map you inhabit most. After 10 Rits, a Deep Pattern Report (generated with Sonnet) adds richer analysis: quadrant distribution, dominant thinking style, underexplored areas, and cross-quadrant connections.

Answers your question from a different point in time — past or future. What would someone in 1850 think about your question? What about in 2150? The displacement in time forces assumptions about the present to become visible. What we treat as permanent is often just contemporary.

The top end of the vertical axis on your Mental Map. Represents thinking about humanity, society, nature, the cosmos, culture, and existence. Rits that land here are about the world at large — not about your personal situation.

Answers your question from a completely different scale. Individual human question → evolutionary or cosmic context. "Why am I sad?" becomes "Why does sadness exist as a feature of this species?" The sudden change in scale makes the specific feel universal — and sometimes, smaller. Often produces the most surprising re-framing.