The 5 types of business advisors you need (and how AI can simulate all of them)

Great boards aren't five people who agree with you. They're a deliberate mix of dispositions that cover your blind spots. Here are the five advisor archetypes every founder needs — and how an AI council puts all of them in one room.

1. The Contrarian

Their job is to attack the plan. Where's the hidden assumption? What breaks first? A contrarian saves you from expensive, confident mistakes by making you defend the decision before reality does.

2. The Growth lead

Relentlessly focused on the upside: the bigger market, the higher price, the faster path to more customers. They counterbalance the contrarian so you don't talk yourself out of every bold move.

3. The Operator

Asks the unglamorous question: who actually does this, and when? Turns strategy into a sequence of doable steps and flags where execution will choke.

4. The Outsider

Brings the perspective from outside your industry and your head — the customer, the skeptic, the person who's never heard your pitch. Catches what familiarity has made invisible to you.

5. The Chairman

Doesn't add a sixth opinion — synthesizes the other four into a decision. Weighs the trade-offs, calls it, and tells you what to do next.

How AI simulates the whole room

An AI board of advisors assigns each archetype a genuine, opposing disposition and lets them debate your specific decision out loud, grounded in your business. You get all five perspectives — and a verdict — in minutes, not a quarterly board meeting. Convene yours →