A private board of advisors
Your coworker just presented your idea as his own.
What would Machiavelli tell you to do? What would Marcus Aurelius? Assemble a council of history's sharpest minds, bring them the situation, and hear them disagree, push back, and tell you what to do next.
Two full sessions, free · Private to your account · Nobody reads a sitting
Join the first 200 people who would rather be disagreed with.
The twelve
Machiavelli
Marcus Aurelius
Seneca
Baltasar Gracián
Sun Tzu
Adam Smith
Montaigne
La Rochefoucauld
Nietzsche
Confucius
Jane Austen
Benjamin Franklin
Nobody else is in the room.
A sitting is private to your account. Nobody reads it. Nothing is published, sold, or used to train anything. Encrypted at rest, keyed to you.
Built on their writings.
Each advisor is drawn from the work they left. Not a costume, and never a living influencer.
Built to disagree.
They ask first, hold a position, and refuse to flatter. That is in how they are built.
Why a council
The stress is not the decision. It is sitting with it alone.
A hard choice has a cost either way. You can see the doors. You cannot tell which one is sense and which one is fear. The longer you wait, the more they look the same.
01 — The trade
You don't know what to do.
Not because you lack options. Because every option asks you to give something up, and nobody has named the trade clearly enough to live with it.
02 — The comfort
The people around you are on your side.
Friends want you to feel better. Colleagues hedge. Most tools agree with the last thing you typed. Comfort is not counsel. A room that only likes you will not help you move.
03 — The room
You need to be badly outnumbered by people who disagree.
Not a committee. Three to five voices who do not share your incentives, who will fight each other, and who will still send you out with one action. That is being well surrounded.
Assemble your council
Choose who sits at your table.
The Chair already has a seat. Three to five voices. They will not agree.
Your table 0 of 5 · Seat 3 more
The ChairA council of twelve is a committee. A council of four is a weapon.
The room
Click a face to seat them. Click again to send them out.
Or sit a ready-made council
A real session
They ask before they answer.
Most AI replies the second you stop typing. A real council wants the facts first. This is an unedited session, with Machiavelli, Marcus Aurelius and Seneca seated.
Session · 3 advisors seated
Names and figures changed. The session itself is verbatim.
How a session runs
Question. Positions. Verdict.
Nobody advises until the facts are on the table. Then the room argues. Then one person rules.
- The Chair
Before anyone speaks, two questions. When you asked about the promotion, what exactly did he say, in his words?
First
The Chair asks.
Two or three sentences from you. Then one or two precise questions back. Nobody advises until the facts are on the table.
- Machiavelli
“The budget cycle is complicated” is not an answer, it is a way of not giving one.
Marcus AureliusI'd push back. Liking your team is not weakness, it's a value.
Then
Your advisors take positions.
Each reads the situation through their own lens. Two of them will disagree. You can press any of them by name. They hold their ground.
- DecisionTake the offer, unless the promotion is in writing by Friday.ActionAsk him for it in writing, with a date. Once.ByFriday
Last
The Chair rules.
One decision, one concrete action, one deadline. The next morning the Chair writes, and the room continues.
Read this before you sit down
What the Council is not.
Not therapy.
If you're struggling, please talk to a professional. The Council is for decisions, not healing, and it will say so if your situation needs more than a decision.
Not a yes-man.
Most AI tells you what you want to hear. The Council is built to disagree with you when you're wrong, and to keep disagreeing when you push.
Not generic advice.
Every answer is about your situation, your people, your constraints. If the Council doesn't know enough, it asks. It doesn't guess.
The difference is the room, not a costume prompt. Why this is not ChatGPT →
The situation
Bring the one you actually have.
Pick the fight you actually have. Same room. Different table. Then sit with the sharpest minds who already thought it through.
- For workYour coworker just presented your idea as his own.Work →
- For loveYou've been deciding whether to leave for six months.Love →
- For an exYou drafted the text. You haven't sent it.An ex →
- For friendsYou found out from someone else.Friends →
- For familyThey already decided. They're waiting for you to agree.Family →
- For moneyYou still haven't named the number.Money →
- For a secretThey still don't know. You've been deciding whether they should.A secret →
- For a cityYou've been leaving this city in your head for two years.A city →
- For a mentorThe person who made you is the person you have to leave.A mentor →
- For a partnerFifty-fifty. Only one of you is still building.A partner →
- For a reputationIt's going to come out. You haven't decided who hears it from you.Reputation →
Pricing
Cheaper than one bad decision.
Two full sessions, free, with everything the room does. Then Member for 5 sessions a month, Plus for 5× that, Patron for 20×. Pay yearly and take 20% off. Patron names go on the wall — first 200.
Free
Try the room
$0
- 2 full sessions, on the house — no expiry, no refill
- A council of three to five advisors, built from what they wrote
- The Chair asks first, then rules: one decision, one action, one date
- Advisors that disagree and hold their ground — press any of them by name
- Speak or type
- The Chair writes the morning after a verdict
- Every sitting saved, encrypted, and sealed to your account
Member
For a decision a week
$15/ month
Everything in Free, plus:
- More usage — 5 full sessions every month
- Refilled on the first of the month
- Cancel any time
Plus
For the ones who come back
$28/ month
Everything in Member, plus:
- 5× Member usage — 25 full sessions every month
- Seminars — sit with one advisor and go into their thought
- New advisors as they join
Patron
For the ones who keep it open
$78/ month
Everything in Plus, plus:
- 20× Member usage — 100 full sessions every month
- Your name on the wall — first 200
- A say in who joins the Council next
Questions
Before you ask the Council.
Can't I just prompt ChatGPT?
You can. You will get one voice, in costume, already inclined to agree with you. The Council seats three to five advisors built from what they actually wrote, makes them disagree, and ends with a decision you have to act on. That is a room. A prompt is not.
Is this real AI, or people?
AI advisors, each built on the actual writings and ideas of the person they're named after. They are built to ask first, disagree when they should, and never flatter. No person is sitting behind the names.
Why these advisors?
Each one brings a way of reading a situation that the others don't. Power, self-control, incentives, reputation, courage, what people really want. Every one of them is in the public domain, and none of them will ever be swapped for a living influencer.
Is my situation private?
Yes. A sitting is private to your account. Nobody reads it — not Theo, who built this, not a staff, not a partner. Nothing you write is published, sold, shared, or used to train a model. It is encrypted at rest, keyed to your account. The model sees a turn only to answer it. You can allow a thirty-day review to improve the room; that is off unless you switch it on.
Will they just agree with me?
No. The Council is built so that advisors hold their positions when you push back. They'll concede a point, never the conclusion, unless you bring a fact that changes it.
When does the full app launch?
The web version you're looking at is live now. Your first two full sessions are free, with everything the room does. After that, Member is $15 a month for five sessions a month, Plus $28 for 5× that (and seminars with one advisor), Patron $78 for 20× — first 200 names on the wall. Pay yearly and take 20% off. The mobile app comes later.