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Two people, one table.

Evenly is a private web app for two people working through a separation together. It replaces a pile of markdown files and a half-finished chat transcript with one calm, shared, persistent place to answer the questions, run the numbers, and watch two draft agreements fill themselves in.

It has exactly two users and always will. No sign-up, no growth features, no third person. This page describes how it was built and why it was built the way it was.

The Shape of the Problem

Separating well is mostly an information problem wearing an emotional coat. There are more than 200 decisions to make, most of them small. There is arithmetic that follows statute and produces one right answer. There are documents that need those decisions and that arithmetic written into them correctly. And there are two people who have to agree, while tired, at a kitchen table, at night.

The expensive parts of a separation are rarely the disagreements. They are the gathering, the reconciling, and the explaining, all of which bill at the same rate as the advice. Doing those first is worth real money, and none of it needs a lawyer.

Six Rules It Was Built Under

  1. Two people, one table. Every feature serves two co-equal users. No scores, no winning, no per-person analytics beyond progress.
  2. Neutral by design. The app states rules with citations and computes numbers from inputs. It never editorialises the outcome.
  3. Calm over clever. This is heavy material used late at night. Quiet typography, generous whitespace, no confetti, no streaks.
  4. Everything persists, everything attributes. Every answer, edit and resolution records who and when. Nothing silently overwrites.
  5. The documents are the destination. Decisions and worksheet figures flow automatically into two draft agreements. The end state is a packet a lawyer can read.
  6. Private absolutely. Auth-walled, an allowlist of two, row-level security on every table, private storage, no analytics, no trackers.

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