The AI Roundtable: A Pattern for High-Stakes Decisions

Call it a roundtable when the question is too important for one model to answer alone. Six frontier LLMs sit around the same prompt. Each opens with a position. Each attacks the weakest opening. After a few rounds, a synthesis pass writes the verdict.

Why it's shaped like a meeting

Because the failure mode is the same. In a meeting with one person, you get one opinion. In a meeting with six people where no one's allowed to disagree, you get one opinion. The value of a roundtable is the disagreement, and the discipline is to keep it visible in the output instead of averaging it away.

What to bring to an AI roundtable

• A real question — not a lookup.
• The constraints. Budget, deadline, non-negotiables.
• Any evidence you already have. Documents, prior analysis, links.
• The decision you'll make with the output. "So what?" should be answerable.

How to read the output

• Read the verdict first. Then the dissent.
• If the dissent is stronger than the verdict, trust the dissent.
• If every model agreed, be suspicious — you may have asked a question that only had one answer.
• If the models cited sources, click through. A verdict without sources is a vibe.