Skills

Advisory Board

Get a room full of expert advisors for any big decision — before you commit.

Several leading AI advisors each examine the same thing — your plan, your decision, your draft, your design — then debate it out loud and converge on one clear recommendation. Think of it as the smartest meeting you’ll ever call: everyone did the reading, no one’s afraid to disagree, and you get a clean summary at the end. It works for software, but also for product, research, legal, business, and writing decisions.

Who It’s For

Founders weighing a big bet. Writers who want a hard read before they hit send. Product managers stress-testing a launch plan. Researchers checking a method. People comparing two real-life options. And yes — it goes deep for engineers too, citing exact path:line evidence in your codebase. If it’s a decision worth getting right, it’s worth bringing to the board.

Ask the Board

See What Comes Back

Here’s a real board, debating a real decision — “Should I go full-time on my side project?”

Verdict: Proceed with care — unanimous, high confidence

Workable, but address the flagged concerns before you go ahead.

The blocker the board converged on: “Income case never closes: $12k MRR ≠ replacing a $165k salary.” All three advisors agreed the financial model was the gating item — once health insurance, self-employment tax, and lost benefits are stripped out, the target income is closer to half of current total comp. They didn’t say “don’t do it.” They said here’s exactly what has to be true first, and handed back the next steps to get there.

Read the full handoff → — a self-contained page that opens offline: the verdict, the round-by-round debate, the blockers they agreed on, the dissent they preserved, and the concrete next actions.

How It Works, in 3 Steps

  1. Bring your thing. Point it at whatever you’re deciding — an idea, a document, a plan, a contract, a draft.
  2. The board reviews and debates. Several top models review independently, then read each other’s takes and push back — catching the blind spots a single opinion would miss.
  3. You get one clear answer. A short, plain-English write-up: the bottom line (go ahead / proceed with care / stop and rethink), where they agree, where they don’t, the risks, and your next steps.

The default board uses frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI — Claude, Codex, Gemini, and Grok — each in a different seat. Provider-maintained selectors resolve the strongest current model at run time. Two rounds of back-and-forth are the default: enough to genuinely stress-test your thinking without dragging on.

Your Data, Your Call

Independent first, together second. Each advisor reviews your material on its own, with no idea what the others said — so they catch each other’s blind spots instead of nodding along.

You approve what leaves your computer. You see exactly what would be sent to each provider and approve it before anything leaves your machine — redact what’s sensitive, or run a fully local board where nothing is sent at all.

It looks before it acts. The board only reads, and never changes your work unless you explicitly ask. No surprises, no stored secrets.

A preflight check confirms at least two advisors are healthy before any run begins — a board needs a quorum.

What You Walk Away With

A run hands you a single, plain-English handoff you can read like a memo, plus the full record behind it:

Start Here

  1. Pick what you’re deciding — a plan, a draft, a contract, a design, a real-life choice.
  2. Hand it to the board and let it run (two rounds, a few minutes).
  3. Read the handoff, act on the next steps.

Curious what a finished run looks like first? Open the sample handoff →


Also Built for Engineers

Under the warm summary is a workflow built for technical rigor — and a machine-readable verdict you can wire into a pipeline.

Repo-grounded review

Point the board at a real codebase with --repo and advisors cite exact path:line evidence, working from a captured snapshot rather than guesswork. Ready-made lens sets for software, product, research, legal, business, and writing live in lens-presets.md. For software and technical work the seats take distinct lenses:

Every seat still reviews the whole brief; the lens reduces blind spots, it doesn’t narrow responsibility.

Default workflow

  1. Round 1 — each model reviews independently, with no view of the others.
  2. Round 2 — each model reads the other seats’ findings and responds: what it missed, what changed its mind, what it still disputes.
  3. Final synthesis — the chair writes a handoff with consensus, dissent, risks, guardrails, and next actions.

Two rounds is the default. Set rounds to auto to stop early on convergence or add a round when real disagreement remains.

Gate CI on the verdict

Every run also emits verdict.json — a machine-readable call (ship | caution | block) you can gate CI on or reshape into a PR comment, Slack message, or TL;DR. scripts/board_verdict.py --gate turns the board’s call into a CI exit code; scripts/format_output.py reshapes it for wherever your team reads it.

What “verified” means here: each cited line carries a resolution check that confirms the quote exists in the captured material — it does not prove the inference drawn from it is correct. The board sharpens your judgment; it doesn’t replace it.

Outputs

A run saves:

A technical example

Prefer to see the board on code? The payments idempotency review walks a real architecture decision end to end, with path:line evidence and a unanimous block verdict. Browse the full run in examples/payments-idempotency-review/.

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