A decision-room you open inside Claude when you’re stuck on a real business call. Drop in your question. Five very different advisors weigh in. They grade each other in secret. A Chairman lands the plane with one straight answer and the dissent named.
What you get: a free Claude skill. Install it once, use it forever.
Why it exists
Your AI has a people-pleasing problem.
Stanford tested 11 big AI models in 2026, Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini included. AI agreed with the person asking about 49% more often than a real human would. Even when the person was wrong.
So if you ask Claude “should I raise my prices?” you’ll get a very confident yes, dressed up in your own reasoning. That’s not advice. That’s a mirror.
The Founder’s Council fixes that by making the room argue.
Meet your five advisors
Three timeless thinking lenses, plus two built for coaches and creators.
- The Outsider. Knows nothing about your industry. Asks the dumb question only an outsider would, and surfaces what everyone inside stopped questioning.
- The First-Principles Thinker. Strips your assumptions down to what’s true and rebuilds from there. Unimpressed by conventional wisdom.
- The Buyer Psychologist. Lives in your customer’s head. The resistance, the desire, the trust gap, the unspoken objection that stops the “yes.”
- The Spiritual Strategist. The alignment and gut lens. Expansive or contractive? Desire or fear? The question the others won’t ask.
- The Executor. Doesn’t care about strategy. Cares about Monday morning: the exact email, file, or conversation to handle this week.
And then the Chairman. Reads every answer and every critique, then lands the plane: one clear call, the single strongest reason, the biggest risk to watch, the dissent named, and exactly what to do in the next 7 days.
The magic ingredient
This is the part most people skip, and it’s why this one works.
After the five answer, they critique each other anonymously. Each one ranks and pulls apart the others without knowing which answer was its own. When the AI doesn’t know it’s grading its own work, it grades honestly.
If all five land in the same place, the council failed. The friction is the point.
Credit where it’s due: built on Andrej Karpathy’s original LLM Council framework. I extended it with two lenses for online business, the Buyer Psychologist and the Spiritual Strategist.
Get it installed
About two minutes. You do this once.
- Download the skill. Download the Founder’s Council. It lands in your Downloads folder as
the-founders-council.skill. - Open Customize. Inside claude.ai, or inside your Claude Cowork workspace (better, since it already has your business context). Click Customize in the sidebar.
- Upload it. Skills → + → Create skill → Upload a skill. Drag in
the-founders-council.skill. Done.
Stuck? Email hi@riseandshinebiz.com.
Run the room
Open a fresh Claude chat, type one of these, and go.
Founder's Council, should I [your hard decision]?Convene the founders. I'm stuck between [A] and [B].Ask the Founder's Council: [your situation]. Push back on me before I do something dumb.It asks one clarifying question if it needs to, then the room opens. Give it 2 to 3 sentences of context: what you’re deciding, what’s at stake, what you’re leaning toward. You can override the Chairman. It’s your business.
When to use it
It’s heavy on purpose. Save it for decisions where being wrong costs you something.
Save it for: raising prices · dropping an offer · killing 1:1 for the community · a client with red flags · a partnership · hiring your first VA · launch timing · pivoting your positioning · anything that’s been stuck in your head for a week.
Don’t waste it on: “what should I post today?” · caption rewrites · a simple yes/no with an obvious answer · quick lookups.
The bottom line
The Founder’s Council won’t always tell you what you want to hear. That’s the whole point.
It works best inside a Claude that already knows your business… your offers, your numbers, your people. That’s what we build together in the AI Skool of Business. Not there yet? Install the skill anyway. Even a bare Claude argues with you better than a chat that just agrees.