Your Action Card · Demonstrator example
START HERE
What to do
Words you could use
IF IT CONTINUES
Your next words for this moment are in your full Card.
IF PRESSURE RISES
Protective wording for this moment is in your full Card.
Know your strategy for your difficult situation at work, before it happens again.
Someone takes credit for your work. Denies what they told you. Yells at you in front of others. Leaves you out of decisions. Piles on the work. Undermines your role. Or one of the many other ways work can become hard to handle. Choose what's happening, who it's coming from, and where. Get your Action Card with what to do and what to say in the moment, even if it gets worse. Then get help with what comes after: the follow-up message, setting a boundary, and what to do if it keeps happening.
A few minutes to your Card
Adapts to your situation
Not just scripts
Available 24/7
Privately, on your own
Try it free
Free demo, no sign-up.
Built by Monica Maltzman, from 15+ years inside these situations.
Try it on your situation
Free demo · about a minuteWhat's happening?
Who is it mainly coming from?
Where will you deal with it?
What do you want to be ready for if it gets worse?
This is a simplified demo. It uses only four choices and shows only the first move in full. Your real Card is built from more of your situation, and it can change the advice when speaking up would make things riskier.
For this situation, the full BrightThrough also gives you
- Practices to get ready before the situation
- Specific actions and words to handle someone taking credit for your work during the situation
- Protective routes if pressure or risk rises
- When staying silent or leaving becomes the safer option
- What to do immediately after the interaction
- Guided help writing follow-up messages
- What to keep on record, and who to bring it to
- What to do if taking credit for your work becomes a pattern
Get BrightThrough
$147one time
Step 1 of 2
Fast when you need it
A few minutes and a few choices. Your Card is ready.
You don't have to tell the whole story or explain every detail. You choose from a short set of options that describe what's happening. Even the fuller path is a short series of guided choices, single choice, multiple choice or yes/no. BrightThrough does the rest.
Your Action Card, its guidance and your preparation
Built from your choices alone. What to do first, what to say, what to do if it continues or gets worse, and how to get ready, without having to explain yourself.
Also included: tools for the follow-up and what comes next
Guided builders you use when you need them:
- Follow-up messages. Build the email or message that confirms what was said or agreed.
- Documentation. Put what happened into a clear, structured record: when, who, what was said and decided. Copy it into your own file and keep it.
- Decisions. Think through, step by step, whether to address it, escalate it, get outside help or leave, and turn that into a short plan.
These work from what actually happened, so you add the details in your own words.
What's inside
Before, during and after.
Understand it
See what may be happening and what changes how it should be handled, even if you only know that something is off.
Your Action Card
Your first move, what to do if it continues, the protective route if pressure rises, what to avoid, and the reasoning behind each step.
Get ready
Prepare your mindset, what you need to have with you, and the words you'll use, before you walk in or hit send.
Handle it
A compact Card for the live moment, how to set a boundary, what to do if it keeps happening, and guided help writing the follow-up.
After
Document what happened, think through your options, and make the next decisions based on how the interaction actually went.
A few examples of what it covers
The demo shows three. The full product covers far more.
Each of these is a whole family of situations, with many variations inside it.
In meetings, one to one, in passing and in writing. With a manager, a peer, or someone outside your team. Whether it just started or has been going on for months.
Who built this
I built what I wish people had in that moment.
For more than 15 years I've been close to these situations: as a leader, as a colleague, and as the person people came to when they didn't know what to do next. I've been on the receiving end too.
What I kept seeing is that general advice breaks down in the actual moment. What works depends on who it is, where it happens, and how far they push. BrightThrough puts that judgment into something you can use on your own, at any hour.
Monica Maltzman · Founder
Private by design
You don't have to bring anyone else in.
No colleague, no HR, no waiting for someone to be free. BrightThrough doesn't contact anyone or act on your behalf. What you enter is treated as private product information, and you decide what, if anything, leaves the product.
BrightThrough
Use it for this situation. Come back when it changes.
$147One-time purchase · no subscription
Open it at any hour, any day. Use it for what's in front of you now, and return when the situation moves, the person changes, or it happens again.
By continuing to purchase, you agree to the BrightThrough Terms of Use and acknowledge the Privacy Notice and Refund Policy.
Questions
What people usually ask first.
No. Your Action Card, its guidance and your preparation come from choosing a few options, a short series of guided choices. The included communication and decision tools work from what actually happened, so there you note things in your own words, as briefly as you like.
A few minutes to your Action Card. Then use as much or as little of the rest as the situation needs.
A general AI answers what you ask, so you have to know what to ask and explain the whole situation. BrightThrough already carries the workplace reasoning: which details change the answer, what to do if it continues, how pressure changes the move, and what to do afterwards.
That changes the answer, and BrightThrough treats it that way. A move that works with a peer can be the wrong one with someone who controls your work, schedule, evaluation or job.
BrightThrough doesn't assume speaking up is always right. Depending on the situation, the better move may be smaller, delayed, in writing, moved elsewhere, or saying nothing at all.
What you enter is treated as private product information. Nothing is sent to anyone on your behalf. The Privacy Notice explains the details.
Some situations need HR, legal advice or other professional support. BrightThrough helps you see when that may be the case and what to gather first. It doesn't replace legal advice, healthcare or other qualified professionals.
Not the right moment?
Send yourself a private link and come back when you have more space. You'll get the link whether or not you opt into updates.