A new kind of mirror
Drift reads your old writing, interviews your present self, and shows you exactly what shifted — and whether you chose it.
How it works
Paste old emails, journal entries, social posts, blog drafts. Upload photos of handwritten notes or PDFs of old documents. From any year, in any format. The older and more candid, the better.
Claude reads through everything and quietly builds a portrait of who you were — what you valued, feared, celebrated, were angry about. You don't see this map yet.
An honest, probing conversation. 7–15 questions covering the same territory — without ever telling you what it found in your past. You answer naturally.
What you've Abandoned, Deepened, Inverted, Added, or Frozen. Whether each change is Growth, Drift, Erosion, or Correction. Plus the honest questions to sit with.
An actual finding looks like this
Between 2014–2017 you mentioned making things — music, writing, design — in roughly 1 in 3 personal messages. You described it as "the only thing that makes me feel like myself."
In your interview, you didn't mention it once unprompted. When asked, you said "I still care about it, I just don't have time." You've said this for six years.
Was this a decision?
Every drift report contains 4–8 of these. Some you'll already know. Some will hit harder.
Why this is different
Therapy is non-directive — your therapist won't tell you you're drifting. Drift will. Kindly, but plainly.
Journaling captures one moment. Drift compares two — separated by years — and shows you the distance between them.
ChatGPT validates whatever you say. Drift's job is to find the changes you didn't decide and make them visible.
No archetypes, no scores. Just your actual past words held up against your actual present words. Specific to you.
Pricing
Solo
Free
forever, with your own Claude API key
Launching later this year
Pro
$15/mo
no setup, no API key, premium features
Launching later this year
Credits
From $9
pay only for what you use
Free forever with your own Claude API key — that's not a trial, that's the permanent free tier. Pro and Credits are for people who want no setup and premium features.
Early access
Pro and managed credits launch later this year. Get notified when they go live — no spam, no upsells. Ever.
Common questions
Yes. Everything you paste into Drift stays in your browser. Drift sends your content directly from your browser to Anthropic's Claude API for analysis — our servers never see or store it. When you use the free tier with your own API key, even the API call doesn't go through us.
With your own Claude API key (free mode): about $0.30–0.60 in API costs per session, billed by Anthropic directly. With our managed credits (coming soon): $0.70–$1.20 per session, paid once. A monthly Pro subscription is $15/mo for unlimited sessions.
Yes — with the managed Pro tier (coming soon). The current free version requires you to create a Claude API key from console.anthropic.com. It takes about two minutes, but does require comfort with the concept of an API key. If that sounds annoying, join the waitlist for the managed version.
30–45 minutes end-to-end. About 5 minutes uploading old writing, 20 minutes for the interview, 2–3 minutes while Drift generates your report. Reading and reflecting on what it shows you takes much longer — and it's the most important part.
Most people have more than they realise. Try old social media posts (download your Twitter/X archive or your Facebook export), texts to friends or family, college essays, old blog posts, even diaries that were never sent. Drift needs at least a few hundred words — but a thousand or more is dramatically better.
No. Drift is a reflection tool, not a treatment. It does not provide medical, psychiatric, or psychological advice. If you're in crisis, please contact a mental health professional or a crisis line.
Drift is built by a solo developer who got tired of AI that just validates everything you say. Email hello@beliefdrift.com if you want to talk to a person.
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