Most founders don't have anyone who will tell them the uncomfortable truth for free at 11pm, AI can play that role if you set it up right. Founders use it to rehearse board meetings and fundraises (asking it to fire the hardest investor questions at them), to simulate a 'personal board of advisors' with different personas, and to run devil's-advocate passes on big decisions so the first pushback they hear isn't in the actual boardroom. The payoff is that you walk into high-stakes conversations having already heard the worst objections.
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Gives you a copy-paste system prompt that turns ChatGPT/Claude into a 'challenge first, support second' devil's advocate, tested on real business decisions.
Wyndo (The AI Maker) Jul 2025
Open aimaker.substack.com →A step-by-step method for designing an AI 'board' with distinct seats, an inverter to challenge assumptions, a simplifier, a builder, and when to invoke each.
Nishant Mehta (Mehta Cognition) Dec 2025
Open mehtacognition.substack.com →A chief of staff compares Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot as thought partners for anticipating tough board questions on a real quarterly deck.
Ana Silva (Section) Nov 2024
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