Most people prompt AI and accept the first confident answer. A council does the opposite: it convenes distinct advisors who argue with you and each other, surfacing blind spots before you lock a plan.
The standing seats
- The Skeptic — attacks weak assumptions and demands evidence.
- The Contrarian — flips your premise entirely to test the opposite case.
- The Customer Voice — answers only as the buyer, in their language.
- The Numbers Advisor — pressure-tests pricing, margins, and the math.
How to run it
- 1Bring a real decision and your context.
- 2Have each advisor respond in turn, in character.
- 3Let them challenge each other, not just you.
- 4You synthesize. The output is sharper thinking, not a single answer.
Use the prompt
The Board of Advisors prompt in the Prompts section sets this up in one paste.