NoFlattery
An AI council that argues, instead of agreeing with you.
I almost shipped a product with the wrong name.
I'd picked something that sounded powerful. I asked ChatGPT - it loved it. Asked Claude - it nodded along. Nobody warned me about the trademark conflict, the wrong search intent, or the SEO fight I'd pick with the BBC.
That's when I realized the problem wasn't the name. It was the feedback loop. Most AI assistants are tuned to please, so they hide your blind spots instead of showing them.
So I built NoFlattery.
It's a local-first AI council. You put 2–4 agents in a room, give them a decision you're stuck on, and they argue. Each agent has a different bias - Analyst, Strategist, Humanist, Integrator — so they actually challenge each other, not just give you four separate answers. The output is a Decision Record: verdict, reasoning, main risk, what would change the call, and a next step.
Technically, it's a single-file SPA: React 19, Zustand, Dexie for IndexedDB, Vite + vite-plugin-singlefile. Your chats and API keys never leave your browser. BYOK. One-time price. No account, no subscription.
I built it solo because a tool about honesty shouldn't harvest your data or trap you in a subscription.
Has anyone else tried building with multi-agent disagreement? I'd love to hear what worked — and what didn't.
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Common question - do you need multiple API keys?
Nope. One key, all agents. Each agent has a different reasoning bias, not a different model. Works fine with just one OpenAI or Google key.
Pro tip: mixing models across agents makes the debate sharper. Different models are trained on different data, so they genuinely disagree more. OpenRouter is the easiest way to do this — one key, tons of models, some free.