Your thinking isn't a straight line. Why is your chat?

Oxbow puts conversations on a canvas. Ask a question, then ask it four different ways — every answer keeps its own place on the map instead of scrolling into the dark.

No card · Bring your own key if you like
Going freelance in spring$2.41 this canvas
Should I go freelance?
ClaudeThe leap isn't the risky part. It's the four months after…
Runway, honestly
ClaudeSix months is the number people say. Four is the number they have.
Talk me out of it
ClaudeWhat would have to be true in March for you to stay?
The email to my boss
ClaudeShort, warm, and dated. Here's a first pass…
Rates, worked out

Day rate floor, three tiers, and what to say when they push…

Where I landed
ClaudeLeave in April, keep two clients, six months banked.
Ask Anna about the old contract before Thursday
Fork

Every answer is a place you can come back to

In a normal chat, asking again destroys what you had. Here it makes a new branch beside it. Take the same question three directions and hold all three in view — the disagreement between them is usually where the answer is.

Carry on

Long conversations stop swallowing themselves

When a thread gets long, carry it on to a fresh sheet. Same conversation, same memory — the earlier part just stays where you can see it instead of scrolling away into a place you'll never find again.

Personas

Ask the right kind of question to the right kind of answer

Save an instruction and a model together, then start any branch with it. Not job titles — ways of being talked to.

Sounding board

Asks questions and holds back advice until you ask for it. The one that makes people understand the whole feature in a single go.

Editor

Cuts your writing down without flattening the way you sound. Works on anything you've drafted, including in another branch.

Recap

Turns a sprawling branch back into one paragraph you can read — and then hand to another conversation as background.

Second opinionPlannerPlain English+ whatever you write yourself
Documents

Write on it yourself. It's your paper.

Anything the model drafts lands on the canvas as a real document you can type into. Fix a line by hand or ask for a rewrite — and paragraphs you've touched become suggestions rather than getting quietly overwritten. Draw a line from a document to any conversation and it becomes something that conversation knows.

Together

Share a canvas, not a screenshot

Canvases are private until you say otherwise. Share one and it stays live — the people you sent it to see what comes next, and can reply and branch alongside you unless you'd rather they just read.

One pane or the whole map

Send a single answer without handing over the rest of your thinking. You're shown exactly what travels with the link before you send it.

You can see what it costs

Per canvas and per month, in plain dollars, with a forecast. No mystery ceiling you hit on a Tuesday for reasons nobody will explain.

Your pick of models

Choose per branch, or let it route. Bring your own key and pay the provider directly if that suits you better.

An oxbow is what's left when a river stops going straight.

Start a canvas and see where it wanders.