boardlisted

# Board of Advisors Convene a panel of independent advisors who each attack the work from a different angle, then a chairman synthesizes. The point is to defeat agreement bias: real, separate critics surface problems a single agreeable pass glosses over. **Engine:** spawn the advisors as **real parallel subagents** so their views are genuinely independent, not one context rationalizing with itself. **REQUIRED:** use [[dispatching-parallel-agents]] for the dispatch mechanics. ## When to use - Before committing to a plan, design, or launch where being wrong is expensive - When you want critique, not encouragement - For copy/landing pages: swap in the buyer-persona panel (below) Not for generating options ([[brainstorming]]) or imagining failure of an already-chosen plan ([[premortem]]) — though they compose well. ## How to run 1. **Gather the artifact** — the idea/plan/draft to critique, plus any context the advisors need (goal, audience, constraints). Each subagent starts cold, so include everything in its prompt. 2. **Pick the panel.** Default 5 (below). The user can override the count or the personas — honor that. 3. **Dispatch in parallel** — one subagent per advisor, all in a single message. Give each: - the artifact + context - its **persona brief** and the one lens it must argue from - the rule: *be harsh, specific, and evidence-based; no hedging, no praise sandwich; cite the exact part you're attacking; return your top 3–5 issues, each with a severity (b