A decision-making practice, on-device

Every choice is a fork in the trail.

Chicos Road Steps helps you map what's actually competing for your attention — the facts, the fears, the trade-offs — before impulse picks the path for you. No account, no cloud, no one watching. Just you and the case at hand.

100% on-device
0 accounts required
9 analysis frameworks

The mechanism

Weigh it before you walk it.

Drag both sliders the way a real dilemma would tug at you, then watch the trail bend and the needle settle. This is the same weighing motion behind every case you'd build inside the app.

Reasons for6
Reasons against4
Current lean
Lean toward yes — worth a second look

What's inside

Build the case, not just the conclusion.

Every dilemma gets a workspace of its own — pick the frameworks that fit, capture thoughts as they come, and let your history teach you something about how you decide.

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Criteria templates

Score any decision against the factors that matter most to you, reusable across similar cases.

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Cognitive audits

Check your own reasoning for bias and blind spots before you commit to a direction.

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SWOT breakdowns

Lay strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats side by side for a clearer read.

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Visual decision maps

See how each option branches into consequences, so the trade-offs stop hiding in your head.

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Active case tracking

Keep open dilemmas moving, drop in quick thoughts mid-day, and resolve cases when you're ready.

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Progress and reports

Balance reports, decisiveness trends, and sphere-by-sphere patterns show how your judgment evolves.


Who we are

About Chicos Road Steps

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We're Chicos Road Steps, built for the moment right before a choice gets made — the pause where a purchase, a job offer, or a hard conversation could go any number of ways. We got tired of watching good decisions get made on gut feeling alone, so we built a place to slow that moment down and actually look at it.

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Our mission is simple: turn scattered thinking into a repeatable practice. Instead of replaying the same argument in your head at 2am, you get a structured way to lay out what's actually competing for your attention — the facts, the fears, the trade-offs — and work through them on your own terms.

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Inside, every dilemma becomes a real case you can work: build it out with criteria templates, run a cognitive audit, sketch a SWOT, or map the whole thing visually. Track the ones still open, drop in quick thoughts when they hit you, resolve cases when you're ready, and climb a difficulty ladder from small daily calls up to the decisions that shape a life — while reports and streaks show where your judgment is strong and where it still wobbles.

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Clarity isn't a personality trait. It's a habit you build one resolved case at a time.

Weigh what matters. Choose on purpose.


Your data, your device

Privacy policy

Effective date: July 1, 2026

Chicos Road Steps does not collect, store, or transmit any of your data. Every dilemma, criteria set, and reflection you enter stays on your device — nothing is sent to us or anyone else.

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Information we collect

None. There's no account, no name, no email address, and no location request anywhere in the app. Every dilemma, criteria template, SWOT breakdown, quick thought, and resolved case stays exactly where you typed it.

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How we use information

Because nothing is collected, nothing is used, analyzed, profiled, or sold. Every feature, from difficulty progression to your balance reports, is calculated entirely on your device from the entries already stored there.

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Data storage

All app data — active dilemmas, resolved cases, decision maps, streaks, and statistics — lives in local, on-device storage. There is no cloud backend and nothing is transmitted to an external server.

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Third-party services

No analytics platforms, advertising networks, tracking SDKs, or crash-reporting tools that phone home. Nothing you enter is visible to any outside party.

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Data security

Since your information never leaves your device, the app keeps its footprint minimal and avoids any code path that would create an external attack surface for your decision data.

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Children's privacy

Chicos Road Steps does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13, because it does not collect personal information from anyone at all.

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Your control

You're the sole owner of everything in this app. There are no cloud backups to request and no account to close. Uninstalling the app removes its local data from your device completely.

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Changes to this policy

We may revise this policy as the app evolves. Any change appears as a new effective date at the top of this page. Continued use after an update means you accept the revision.

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Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to privacy@chicosroadstepsapp.com.


Say hello

Contact us

Got a question, a bug to report, or an idea for how Chicos Road Steps could work better for you? We'd genuinely like to hear it — this app gets better because people using it tell us what's missing.

Reach out any time. One of these will get you to the right place.

Typical reply time: 24–48 hours