Board.

I got tired of asking ChatGPT if my ideas were good. It always said yes.

Every time I had a big decision to make — raise prices, hire someone, pivot — I'd ask an AI tool. And every time, it would find reasons to validate whatever I was already leaning toward.

That's not advice. That's a mirror that only shows you what you want to see.

So I built Board — an AI board of advisors that's specifically designed to disagree with you.

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Here's what happened when I ran my own decision through it:

I asked: Should I drop my freelance clients and go all-in on building Board? I make $8k/month freelancing, have $22k in savings, and 3 people who've said they'd pay.

Alex (CFO) told me $22k gives me 2.75 months of runway if I quit today. Then asked: "Have you actually sent any of those three people a payment link yet?"

Maya (Growth) said "said they'd pay" is where most early products go to die — and suggested compressing freelance to 40% rather than quitting cold.

Jordan (Devil's Advocate) said the load-bearing assumption in my entire plan was that going full-time would fix things — but what if the bottleneck wasn't time, it was validation?

Sam (Ops) told me to set a hard tripwire before quitting. "Founders who don't define that line make increasingly distorted decisions as savings drain."

The verdict: Don't quit yet. Send all three prospects a payment link this week with a 72-hour deadline. No soft framing. If they pay, the conversation changes. If they don't, you've learned the most important thing possible at zero cost.

I followed the advice. Kept one client. Built Board in the margins. And here we are.

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$99/month. 3 free sessions before you need to subscribe.

Would love brutal feedback from this community — what would make you pay for this? What's the decision you'd bring to the board right now?

Happy to give IH members an extended trial — just reply here.

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