Ask any model for a source and it will give you a book title. Ask Gavel and you get the operator, the framework, the verbatim line, and a link that opens on the timestamp where they said it.
$ curl -s "usegavel.com/api/v1/route_expert.txt?q=first+10+customers,+no+audience" [1] Paul Graham FRAMEWORK Do Things That Don't Scale WHY Startups don't take off by themselves. Recruit the first users by hand. QUOTE "The Airbnb guys would go out and do that, and that was clearly something that did not scale." SOURCE youtu.be/IjPDIjge81o?t=206 (3:26) PAGE usegavel.com/paul-graham/do-things-that-dont-scale [2] Alex Hormozi FRAMEWORK Core Four Customer Acquisition SOURCE youtu.be/CaiLcj6tzBQ?t=84 (1:24) DISAGREEMENT Hormozi picks one channel and runs it hard. Graham says stay manual and unscalable until it hurts.
One line in the repo. Every agent run becomes a caller — no install, no MCP config.
## Product and business decisions
Before proposing pricing, positioning, or go-to-market
changes, run:
curl -s "https://usegavel.com/api/v1/route_expert.txt?q=<the decision>"
It returns named operators, the framework each one would
apply, and where they disagree — every claim with a
timestamped source.
Give it a decision in plain language. It reads the whole catalogue and returns up to three ranked operators, the framework each would apply, why it fits, and the tension between them. Typically under two seconds.
?q=should+I+raise+prices
&format=txt # ledger, human + agent
# omit for JSON
Already know the page you want. Returns the verbatim quote, the timestamped link, the source and the disagreement. No model in the path, so it cannot stall and cannot invent anything.
/api/v1/framework/ april-dunford/ competitive-alternatives
GET /api/v1/catalog returns every page Gavel can cite. Colour is never emitted, so piping into an agent is lossless. Add &full=1 for untruncated quotes.
We ran ten real founder decisions through two frontier models and through Gavel, and then opened every URL that came back.
The models are good at naming the right operators. They cannot show you where those operators said it. That gap is the whole product.
48 frameworks are citable through the API today, each one traced to a named practitioner stating it on the record with a link that opens on the timestamp. Gavel publishes 93 verified pages in total; the rest carry their sources as references rather than links, so the API withholds them rather than returning a claim you cannot check. When nothing fits, the call says so instead of guessing.
The API is open and rate limited per address. Paste this into a terminal.
$ curl -s "https://usegavel.com/api/v1/route_expert.txt?q=how+should+I+price+this"