Mirrored Shield
Before anything arrives, the sender sees the exact version that will reach you, and decides: revise, or send as is. It works over plain email; the other person installs nothing.
If you’re on the other side of this channel: this part is for you →
Mirrored Shield · Patent pending
01What it is
Some contact you can’t cut off: coparenting in high conflict, a separation with a shared life still to untangle, an inheritance dispute between siblings, family contact that needs protection. And it isn’t only family: a dispute with neighbors you still have to live beside, a working relationship that ended in conflict, a business partnership that still has to be wound down. The reasons differ; the shape is the same.
The Mirrored Shield exists for exactly that sliver. The channel filters out the blame, the threats, the digs; the facts still arrive, and necessary contact stays open. Clean messages go through exactly as written; the shield exists for the attack, not for the person.
It runs over normal email, so the other person needs no app and no account.
PeaceTalk filters messages; it cannot make an unsafe person safe. When it’s more than conflict →
02What reaches you
A hostile message doesn’t reach you as written. It arrives under the sender’s name, as short, factual points: what was said, without the how.
Below them, stated openly: how much of the message’s substance was preserved, and that the original wording carried patterns that don’t need to be in your inbox. The original isn’t gone; you can open it in PeaceTalk any time you choose.
Not every attack shouts. The quiet kind, a guilt-trip wrapped in politeness, is caught just the same:
Real output: these example messages, processed by PeaceTalk. You always decide whether to see the original.
03In the app
In the app, every filtered message opens in steps: first, what arrived. Then what was held back: the patterns by name, and how much was preserved. Then, if you want it, the original.
Each step is your choice. Nothing is hidden from you; it’s just no longer aimed at you.
04The mirror
No attack goes out on a free shot. When a message is held, the sender gets the mirror: the version that would reach you (exactly what you’d receive), what’s being held back, the patterns named, and their own original underneath.
Then they decide: revise it in their own words, or send as is, which delivers the factual version, never the raw wording. There is no way to send around the mirror. They can still say everything that needs saying. The only thing they can’t do anymore is make it land hard.
If they think a call is wrong, they can contest it; the decision gets reviewed, not just defended.
And that is everything the other side ever gets from PeaceTalk: the mirror and its reminders, always about their own message. Nothing about you: not whether you’ve read it, not whether you opened the original, not how you’ve set up your side.
05Both directions
It runs the same in both directions: what you send is held to the same standard. That’s not a limitation; it’s what makes the channel defensible. Nobody is the exception; the rule protects whoever is being attacked, in either direction.
06Getting started
No invitation goes out in your name asking anyone to join anything. When you open the channel, the first thing your contact receives is the introduction: who is reaching them, and that this is where the conversation continues from now on; how firmly that’s said is your choice.
It states the honest things up front: it works in both directions, and no one is the exception; nothing is rewritten in their name: what arrives is their message as written, or a short summary that is visibly a summary, with every original kept word for word; and AI processes the messages; no one at PeaceTalk reads them. They can even paste any message into a sandbox and watch what the channel does with it; nothing actually sends.
Your first message can go along with the introduction, or follow whenever you’re ready. From then on, their emails reach you filtered, and yours reach them the same way. They never need an app or an account.
07Honesty about limits
We’ve built the shield to be as accurate as we can make it; it still won’t be right every time. When a call looks wrong to you, Second Look reviews exactly that decision. And the sender can contest a call from their side too. The same honesty, in both directions. The review happens in the AI; a person at PeaceTalk sees at most its content-free assessment, never your message.
08If you’re on the other side
You need no app and no account: you write email, you receive email.
When a message of yours is held, you see it before anything is delivered: the version that would reach the other person, and what’s being held back, and you decide: rework it, or send it anyway. What arrives then is the factual version, never the raw wording.
The same standard runs in both directions: what reaches you is held to it just as what you send is; no one is the exception. And every original stays saved, word for word, unaltered. What each side sees of the other, and never sees, is listed openly here: what the other person sees, and what they never see →
Digital communication rewards the loudest voice in the room. This is where that stops.
The beta opens in August 2026.