Why use AI as a board-meeting sparring partner, coach, or devil's advocate?

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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