I'm building an AI that will run the ads for my first product launch, and last week I wrote the rules it has to follow. One of those rules decides when an ad is costing too much and needs to be shut off. I set that number at $36.

Before I built a thing, I sent the whole plan to four different AI models and asked each one to argue against it. All four came back pointing at the same sentence. $36 was also the number I was aiming for, so the rule would have shut off every ad that was performing exactly the way I asked it to.

I had read that rule out loud twice and never caught it.

The AI Move

I call it a model council, and it has three versions. Pick the one that matches what the decision costs you.

The full version. Perplexity Computer sends one question to several models at once and lays the answers out side by side. That is where I ran mine, five models on one plan. It runs on credits, and a council like mine burns about $15 worth, so save this one for the decisions you cannot get wrong.

The middle version. Copy your question, paste it into three different AI tools yourself, and put the three answers next to each other. Same result, more clicking, no cost.

The quick version. Stay in whatever AI you already use and tell it to argue against its own answer. This is the weakest of the three, because one model cannot see past its own blind spots, and it still beats taking the first answer at face value.

Then read for where they disagree. Agreement tells you nothing. The disagreement is where your error is sitting.

This week's prompt

Paste this in along with whatever you're about to commit to. It will argue against your plan and rank what to fix first.

ROLE: You are a skeptical reviewer. Your job is to find what is wrong with the plan below, not to encourage me.

CONTEXT: I am about to act on this and it will cost me real money or real time. [Paste your plan, offer, budget, email sequence, or decision here.]

REQUEST:
1. Name the single biggest flaw. Be specific about which line creates it.
2. List every assumption I have made without evidence.
3. Tell me what is missing that I have not thought to ask about.
4. Give me a verdict: proceed, proceed with changes, or rethink. Then rank the fixes in the order I should make them.

Do not soften anything. If one number contradicts another number, say so.

Run it whichever way you picked above.