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ask-boardroom

Simulate a board of advisors for strategic decisions, or run 1:1 strategic sparring sessions.

USE WHEN user says 'ask the board', 'boardroom', 'advisor board', 'get board input', 'strategic advisors', 'board of advisors', or wants multiple expert perspectives on a strategic decision. Also USE WHEN user says 'sparring', 'spar with me', 'think this through', 'help me decide', 'I'm trying to decide', 'should I', or wants a 1:1 strategic thinking partner for a tough decision.

When to run
"Ask the board: Should we raise prices by 20%?"
Time saved
~8 hrs deliberation → ~15 min automated (32× faster)
How often
Per major strategic decision
Compounds
Decision history builds institutional memory — pattern recognition improves over time

How it runs

  1. Confirming question and loading business context
  2. Spawning parallel advisor agents (Round 1 positions)
  3. Collecting position papers with votes and projections
  4. Spawning parallel advisors (Round 2 rebuttals)
  5. Generating deliverables (Markdown, HTML, PDF)

Why it matters

  • 32× faster
  • Multiple expert perspectives in parallel
  • Structured debate — not group-think
Difficulty
beginner
Input
conversation
Output
document
Needs
none
Used by
CEO / Founder

What it needs

  • request — What to produce
  • scope — Company or client-id
  • decision — The decision or strategic question to think through

What you get

  • board-decision-html (html)
  • board-decision-md (markdown)
  • board-decision-pdf (pdf)
  • decision-brief (markdown)
  • {context-root}/decisions/{decision-slug}_decision_brief.md

Ask it like this

  • Ask the board: Should we raise prices by 20%?
  • Get boardroom advice on whether to pivot our product strategy
  • Simulate a board discussion about entering the European market
  • Ask the advisors: Should we take on venture funding or bootstrap?
  • Spar with me on whether to hire a head of sales or keep doing it myself
  • I'm trying to decide whether to drop our lowest-margin service line — think it through with me
  • Strategic sparring: should I take this partnership deal?