Six brutal voices tear your idea apart, find the fatal flaw, and hand you a straight verdict: green light, reshape, or kill.
Better you hear it from us now than from the market later.
The tools
Bid Defence Simulator
Face the evaluation panel before the evaluators do.
An evaluation panel that questions your bid one hostile question at a time.
Free, live now
Renewal Negotiation Simulator
Rehearse the renewal before the client opens with a discount demand.
A client-side commercial lead and business sponsor who pounce on a fast concession.
Free, live now
The Viva Council
Face the panel before the panel.
An examination panel that questions you on your thesis brief one hostile question at a time, in your field and your viva format.
Free, live now
The problem nobody is pricing in
The AI you use every day is tuned to keep you happy, not honest. Anthropic studied its own systems and found they preferred the answer you want over the answer that is correct in 95% of cases.
That is the same machine that told a string of famous companies their ideas were brilliant, right up until the money was gone. The council is the antidote: structured dissent, given early, when it is still cheap to listen.
Who is in the room
The Wrecking Ball
Swings straight at the weakest joint and keeps swinging until something cracks, then tells you exactly how the whole thing comes down.
Has never met an idea it could not dent.
The Dreamer With A Calculator
Ignores the problems for one minute and asks the fun question: if this actually works, how big does it get? Then spots the bigger prize you walked past.
The only one in the room still allowed to dream.
The Toddler
Asks "but why?" about every assumption you borrowed without checking, until they all fall over. Deeply annoying. Almost always right.
Refuses to accept "that is just how it is done."
The Receipts
No vibes, no opinions. Goes to the live web and comes back with real prices, real rivals, and the free thing that already does what you do.
Slides the printout across the table and waits.
The Wallet
Your actual customer. Busy, skint, unimpressed, deciding in three seconds whether to pay or keep scrolling. Tells you to your face.
Money makes people painfully honest.
The Final Word
Reads the whole brawl, immune to your charm and your dreams, and rules: build it, reshape it, or kill it. Then hands you the cheapest way to find out for sure.
Bangs the gavel. Court is adjourned.
Where this is going
Right now the council roasts ideas by hand, one at a time, because the verdict has to be right before it is fast. That is the whole product: a verdict you can trust, not a quicker way to be flattered.
The plan is simple. Everyone deserves one voice that refuses to lie to them. A standing council that remembers what you decided, and why, and holds you to it. The honest one, in your corner, for every call that matters. We are starting with ideas. We are building toward that.
The council, specialised
Same method, one room. It reads the candidate's entire thesis, the research they built on, and their real examiners' published work. Then it examines them one hostile question at a time, refuses to let a vague answer pass, remembers every soft spot, and hands back a readiness report with the five questions they must drill.
Four formats: the UK viva voce, the US committee defense, the European opponent duel, and the international panel. A human mock viva costs a few hundred pounds and pulls its punches twice. This one does not pull them at all.
We are pre-launch. The examination room is not open yet. Register your interest and you will hear the day it opens, with the founding price.
Open now. Only five places this week
Anyone can make the deck. The rating says whether to believe it. Zero to five flames for how well your decision has been tested, on a public page you can put in front of anyone.
What you get
The fee is the same whatever the grade. A Kill with 4 flames is a good result.
Founding price
£19
One decision, one full rating.
Only five places this week. Then the price goes up.
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