Uptake

In high-stakes talk — diplomacy, negotiation, air traffic control — what a speaker meant and what their words actually did can drift apart, and nobody sees where. Uptake reads a conversation turn by turn. For each turn it records what the speaker wanted on four stakes (outcome, relationship, face, understanding) and what the later turns show actually happened, read only after the reply is seen. Where the two are far apart, the turn gets an alert. The report finds the decisive turn, shows intended / said / read side by side, and tests two other wordings that keep the facts, judged against the original in both orders with identical, worse and middle controls. It is a debrief and training aid, not a predictor or live alarm: it reads the utterance, not the person. Every value in the report says where it came from, and the README publishes what was measured and what was not (split-half 0.863 on held-out negotiation dialogues; held-out alert check passed on 2 of 3 high-stakes cases, the third missing by one turn).