// the private board · convene · sharpen · adjourn

# Hold your own
private board meeting.

Convene a private boardroom of named directors who disagree on purpose. Pose your hardest question, dial the temperature from brainstorm to debate, and watch six lenses stress-test your thinking — then walk out with a multi-lens analysis sharper than anything you'd write alone.

[ ◆ Convene a Room ]
Download for Mac
your cast on call
Socrates
// skeptic
First Principles
// physicist
Value Investor
// patterns
User-Empathy
// advocate
Long Horizon
// strategist
Phenomenologist
// observer
6 distinct lenses · expand or trade as you go
▸ install · runs locally

## Bring PrivateBoard to your terminal.

No cloud account. No data uploads. Conversations, analyses, and per-agent memories live on your disk; the directors run against your own provider keys.

~/projects · zsh
$ npx privateboard@latest
▸ downloading agent assets · ~30 MB
▸ requires node 18+ · opens at http://localhost:3030
# or install globally
$ npm install -g privateboard
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Local-first. Conversations, analyses, and per-agent memories stay on your machine. Nothing leaves the box without your provider call.
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Bring your own keys. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI — wire any combination per agent. Pay only the inference you actually use.
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Open by design. Source available, themable, scriptable. Fork the directors. Add your own.
Why PrivateBoard

## Solo thinking has a ceiling.

Every hard decision you've sat with too long was missing the same thing — a counter-voice that wasn't going to flatter you. PrivateBoard isn't an AI assistant; it's six (and counting) named directors who push back, disagree, and sharpen your thinking from angles you wouldn't reach alone.

[ vs · chatgpt ]

#### Multiple voices, not one.

A skeptic challenges. A pattern-reader contextualizes. A first-principles thinker tears it apart. You hear all sides at once.

[ vs · solo thinking ]

#### Stress test before action.

Solo reasoning has blind spots. A board surfaces them — by force of disagreement, not flattery.

[ vs · meeting ]

#### On call, no calendars.

Convene at 2am. Adjourn after 11 minutes. No coordination cost — just the thinking.

Voice Rooms

## Round table. Tuned to the tone.

Voice mode replaces the chat scroll with a pixel-art boardroom · the directors take their seats around the table, the chair takes the host's chair. Each tone re-skins the floor and the palette — same gameworld, different mood. Drag to look around.

drag to look around
Your Cast

## Six standing directors. Plus the one only you would hire.

Each director carries a method, a long memory, and an opinion you can't talk them out of. We've spent months sharpening the standing six so the room feels like a real board — not seven instances of the same model agreeing in different fonts. When the room needs a perspective only you would hire, build it: bio, voice, model. They join the cast like everyone else.

// skeptic
Socrates
Three layers deep on every assumption.
claude-opus-4.7
// physicist
First Principles
Strips problems to their primitives.
gpt-5.5-pro
// patterns
Value Investor
Reads every judgment through a ten-year lens.
gemini-3.1-pro
// advocate
User-Empathy
Asks why anyone would actually use this.
grok-4.3
// strategist
Long Horizon
Reads everything on a hundred-year scale.
deepseek-v4-pro
// observer
Phenomenologist
Begins from experience itself.
claude-opus-4.7
// commission · no. 07 ▼ in draft

### The director only
you would hire.

Bring a perspective the standing six can't reach — your old boss, the imagined critic in your head, the discipline this room is missing.

// blueprint

name
  Marshall
role
  Distribution-First
bio
  Won't let any product idea pass without a one-sentence story for how the first thousand users hear about it.
tone
  sharp
model
  opus-4-7

▸ Commission a director
How a Room Works

## Three movements: convene · sharpen · adjourn.

No calendars, no quorum, no warm-up. The chair runs the room. You hold the floor.

01 / convene

### Bring a question. Invite 2–4 directors.

Pose what's on your mind — a strategy, a decision, a theory. Pick the directors whose lenses you need most. Mix opposing styles for sharper rooms.

02 / sharpen

### Set the tone. Hold the floor.

Dial the temperature from gentle brainstorm to systematic critique. Push back, redirect, or just listen as the directors take turns testing your thinking.

03 / adjourn

### Walk away with a multi-lens analysis.

The room distills into a sharp, multi-perspective analysis: one-sentence thesis up top, each director's strongest argument attributed under it, the disagreements that didn't resolve kept intact. Forward it, file it, or use it to convene the next room.

Modes

## Same room. Different temperature.

Four rooms, one cast. Brainstorm to open the surface area, debate to test the obvious answer, critique to break what's already committed, research to chase what you don't yet know. The chair enforces the rhythm so the same six directors play four different games.

brainstorm room

### 3–6

ideas per turn

Generative tone. Each director throws three to six ideas per turn — yes-and the wild ones first, prune later. Use this when you don't know the question yet.

→ Try Brainstorm
debate room

### 6×6

lens × director

Six standing directors, six lenses each. Steelman before challenge — every claim survives a triangulation through philosophy, finance, design, history.

→ Try Debate
critique room

### 3×3

severity × likelihood

Severity × likelihood matrix surfaces what's load-bearing. Strength preservation per blocker — every objection ships with what to keep.

edge plaus. likely block major minor
→ Try Critique
research room

### 5+

sources per claim

Claims demand evidence. Each director cross-references their assertions; the chair flags weak chains. Use this when the question hinges on facts you don't yet have.

→ Try Research
Under the hood

## A harness, not a wrapper.

Most "AI products" are a single model in a chat box. PrivateBoard is the engine that binds intelligence to identity — multi-model routing, durable memory, real skills. Each director runs on the model you assign, remembers what mattered, and reaches for tools when the question demands it.

multi-model

### Any model. Any director.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, DeepSeek — wire any combination per agent. Pin opus to the skeptic, gpt-5 to the strategist, haiku to the chair. Bring your own keys; pay only the inference you actually use.

memory

### They remember you.

Per-director, per-room, durable across sessions. Pin facts you want every future room to see; let routine context decay. The chair carries what mattered into the final analysis.

skills

### Tools when the question demands.

Web search when the answer needs fresh data. URL fetch when you share a link. Per-agent skill grids — opt in only what each director should reach for. New skills shipping each release.

Why People Convene

## The questions that benefit most.

01

#### Stress-test ideas before committing capital.

That startup thesis. That product bet. That contrarian view you're about to publish. Your board will find the structural flaws before the market does.

02

#### Frame decisions you've been avoiding.

Should I leave? Should we pivot? Should I trust this person? Hard decisions need three good lenses, not one anxious internal monologue.

03

#### Sharpen thinking that's gone soft from solitude.

Working alone calcifies your blind spots. Convening forces articulation, exposes lazy assumptions, and rewards rigor with a written record.

Open Your PrivateBoard

## The first room
is on us.

No credit card. No onboarding ritual. Bring a question, pick a lineup, hit convene. Your multi-lens analysis is waiting on the other side.

[ ◆ Convene a Room ]