Pressure-Test Any Business Decision With a Five-Advisor AI Panel That Eliminates Confirmation Bias

Ollie Layman

By the end of this guide, you'll have a reusable advisory panel prompt that attacks any business decision from five distinct angles — exposing fatal flaws, hidden upsides, and operational realities before you commit — then delivers one clear verdict and one immediate next step.

Who This Is For

• You've asked AI for feedback on an idea and it told you it was great — then the idea failed

• You're about to make a significant business decision (new offer, campaign, pricing change, market move) and want it stress-tested before you spend money

• You find AI tends to agree with whatever framing you feed it, making it useless for real strategic input

• You have advisors or a team but want an adversarial second opinion before taking it to them

• You want a thinking tool you can use in under 10 minutes on any decision, any time

What You'll Build

A saved advisory panel prompt — five specialized AI personas evaluating your decision simultaneously:

• The Contrarian — hunts fatal flaws, logical inconsistencies, and unmitigated risks

• The First Principles Thinker — deconstructs the problem to find what actually needs solving at the foundation

• The Expansionist — uncovers scalable upsides and hidden leverage points being overlooked

• The Outsider — ignores internal bias and names the obvious issues a customer or observer notices first

• The Executor — focuses exclusively on operational realities, timeline friction, and what happens next

Followed by a Chairman persona that consolidates the debate into one verdict and one immediate action.

What You'll Need

• Claude or ChatGPT (either works — Claude Projects or custom GPTs allow you to save this as a persistent setup)

• A specific business decision or proposal to test — the more concrete, the sharper the output

• No accounts, APIs, or technical setup required

Going Further

• Use this panel before writing any major piece of copy — Guide: Write a Landing Page Starting From the Reader's Internal Monologue (Copywriting)

• Apply the Executor's lens to your automation setup — Guide: Build Your First GHL Automation From Scratch (Marketing Automation)

• Pressure-test your offer before you build the funnel — Guide: Create a Positioned Offer Using the Grand Slam Framework (Offers)