This website helps Public Forum (PF) debate students practice for rounds using free tools powered by artificial intelligence.
PublicForumAI was just rebuilt end to end, starting with the parts debaters told us were weakest. With stronger capabilities and more users, we added Premium for the best experience to keep the core free.
Cases and every speech in a round were tested extensively and powered with stronger models, along with the flowing and feedback around them.
Citations no longer fail or point at invented sources. With Premium, evidence throughout all speeches are backed up.
Leave a round unfinished, start another, pick either back up.
Premium removes the round limit and puts real sourced evidence, with working links, into your rounds.
PublicForumAI is dedicated to making public forum debate more accessible. We provide resources and guidance to help debaters of all levels improve, especially those without access to traditional support. Our goal is to equip students with the skills and confidence to succeed in debate.
Our hybrid architecture combines several large language models and web search APIs that are fed example cases and combined through natural language processing techniques.
No. Our AI tools are not meant to be used in real rounds, and will not generate links to sources in rebuttal and summary for this reason. PublicForumAI is meant to help users prepare for rounds through real debate experience that can be accessed without human opponents anywhere, at any time.
Yes, you will receive structured AI feedback and a chosen "winner" upon completing a full practice round. You also have the option to choose between a tech and a lay judge, though we often find the feedback from the AI tech judge to be more helpful.
While it is definitely possible, we do not yet have a crossfire feature that would be fast enough to replicate a real round. However, it's in the works.
The full practice round feature takes roughly the same amount of time as any PF round, just without crossfire. So, around 35 minutes with prep time.
We offer features meant to help debaters of all levels improve, including New2Debate and our middle school and high school levels.
PublicForumAI was started in 2024 by students on a high school debate team in New York City, and was built to cater to the experiences of others like them in Public Forum debate.
Every tool follows the standard Public Forum structure, from the speech order in a practice round to the way a ballot is written.
We are working with schools and debate camps to tailor the platform to how programs actually train, and building a mobile app. Your feedback as a debater is what helps us become the best product we can be.