Features
Every tool you need, in one place.
Backfile integrates into the workflow you already use: the same files, the same cards, the same blocks. Less time hunting through folders; more time on the arguments only you can make.
Features
The arguments you didn’t know you had.
Parse any file instantly
Upload your files. Backfile understands pockets, hats, blocks, tags, cites, and card bodies; no manual classification needed.
Search your entire file library
Never lose a card. You cut the cards; we'll find them — every card, analytic, and block across all your files, searchable in milliseconds.
Scout
You have the answer. Upload an opponent's case and get ranked counter-evidence from your own files — cards and blocks surfaced by relevance.
Export directly into your speech
Drop curated arguments straight into your workflow with properly Verbatimized pocket, hat, and block structure, ready for your speech.
How it works
Upload your files. Drop in a case. Get your blocks.
Upload your backfiles
Drop in your team's Stacks. Backfile indexes every card, cite, and analytic across your entire library.
Drop in an opponent's case
Backfile analyzes every position — DAs, Ks, CPs, case arguments, T shells — and identifies what you need to answer.
Get your responses
Cards and blocks from your own files, ranked by relevance and grouped by strategy. Export and you're ready for round.
Deep dive
How each capability fits your prep
Parse any file instantly
Upload your files. Backfile understands pockets, hats, blocks, tags, cites, and card bodies; no manual classification needed.
Upload camp files, caselist dumps, or your partner’s draft — Backfile preserves Verbatim-style structure so you are not re-tagging by hand. Parsed output is consistent enough to trust for search and for Scout.
Search your entire file library
Never lose a card. You cut the cards; we'll find them — every card, analytic, and block across all your files, searchable in milliseconds.
Queries run against tags, cites, highlighted body text, and analytics so you can recover evidence by argument name, author, or half-remembered wording. Results stay scoped to your library — nothing is pulled from the open web.
Scout
You have the answer. Upload an opponent's case and get ranked counter-evidence from your own files — cards and blocks surfaced by relevance.
Scout maps opponent positions (DA, K, CP, T, case, etc.) and ranks what you already own. That keeps prep honest: the cards are yours; the software surfaces them faster.
Export directly into your speech
Drop curated arguments straight into your workflow with properly Verbatimized pocket, hat, and block structure, ready for your speech.
Exports respect pocket, hat, and block hierarchy so you can drop selections into a speech doc and keep working in Word with the Debate template you already use.
Built for how debaters actually work.
Backfile understands the rigid hierarchy of debate documents: Pockets, Hats, Blocks, Tags, Cites, and Card Bodies. It knows the difference between a tag and an analytic, between a short cite and a full cite. Every feature is designed around the real structure of competitive policy debate.
Exports open in Word with the Debate ribbon, formatted the way you’d write them yourself. No reformatting, no cleanup.
Roadmap
We’re building the future of debate prep.
Direct send to Word
Push Scout picks; cards, positions, and argument groupings; straight into the Word document you already have open. One click: no copy-paste, no file downloads.
Partner Sync
Prep like you have a team. Shared workspace so both partners see the same prep, same cards, same responses — updated in real time.
No dropped args. No wasted prep.
Eight minutes of prep. Zero wasted searching.