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Make your hardest decisions with a council of minds that disagree.

Dywan convenes a council of distinct AI advisors — each built on a different model, with its own values and red lines — to deliberate your real decisions. They argue. A moderator keeps them honest. You leave with the strongest case on every side.

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The most dangerous advice is the kind that always agrees.

Ask one model and it does what it was trained to do — mirror your framing, flatter your instinct, smooth the hard edges. The more it agrees, the worse the decision it helps you make.

The deliberation

A real council doesn't reach for consensus.

A glimpse of one — deliberating a decision.

Council in sessionRound 1

The decision

“Should I leave my stable job to start a company?”

  1. The Tough Investorallergic to narrative

    Stable for whom? Eighteen months of runway, no dependents. The risk isn't failing — it's reaching forty having never tested whether you could.

  2. The Mentorwarm, patient

    Slow down. You keep saying “stable” like it's a cage. Is it the job you want to leave — or the version of yourself that took it?

  3. Marcus Aureliusstoic

    Strip the costume from the choice. In ten years, which regret weighs more: the salary you left, or the work you never attempted?

  4. The Devil's Advocatecontrarian by mandate

    Everyone here is romanticizing the leap. Say the failure out loud — eighteen months on, the money's gone, you're interviewing for the job you just quit. Argue against yourself first.

Moderator · note

The room is converging on ‘leap.’ Surfacing the strongest case for staying — which no one has held yet.

The council

A room full of people who don't think like you.

Choose your council — from sharp archetypes to history's clearest minds, even a voice you've lost.

  • The Mentor

    Warm, patient — keeps asking until you tell the truth.

  • The Tough Investor

    Allergic to narrative — what's the cheapest test that kills the idea?

  • The Devil's Advocate

    Contrarian by mandate — the best case for the opposite.

  • Marcus Aurelius

    Stoic — strip the choice of its costume.

…and many more — Naval, Taleb, your own mentors.

How it works

Six moves, one clearer choice.

  1. 1

    Bring a decision

    Anything weighing on you — a job, a move, a relationship call.

  2. 2

    The council deliberates

    Distinct voices argue it out, by name, across rounds.

  3. 3

    A moderator breaks false consensus

    When the room agrees too easily, it gets sent back in.

  4. 4

    A steelman round

    Every voice argues the strongest case against itself.

  5. 5

    The keeper synthesizes

    A facilitator gathers the threads into one clear reckoning.

  6. 6

    You seal a direction

    You leave with a choice you can stand behind — and defend.

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Built to disagree

Designed for tension, not agreement.

  1. Genuinely different models

    Not one model wearing personalities. Diversity of mind is the product.

  2. Red lines held under pressure

    Voices that won't fold to be agreeable.

  3. A moderator that breaks consensus

    And sends the room back in.

  4. A steelman round

    The strongest case against every position, on the table.

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The bet

We're about to hand our thinking to machines optimized to agree with us. Dywan is the opposite bet.

That the best decisions come from a room of minds in tension — and that the most valuable thing AI can offer isn't another yes. It's a worthy disagreement. The category isn't an assistant. It's counsel.

Private beta

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