Fed my startup plan to an AI that argues with itself. It told me we were 6 months wrong.

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The article describes using PRISM, an open-source tool that makes AI agents argue with each other to critique startup plans, leading to insights about enterprise sales and changing direction.

We were building AI code review for engineering teams. Enterprise. $50/seat. Seemed like a no-brainer. Then I fed the plan into something I'd been hacking on — thinking patterns that make AI agents argue with each other instead of just agreeing with you. It came back: "Engineering teams can't buy tools without VP approval. 70% of enterprises block it." That hit differently. It also said AI code review doesn't reduce work — now devs have to check the code and the AI's check. Stop selling to engineers, it said. Sell to security teams. Charge by fix, not seat. I hadn't considered any of it. We changed direction in a week. Same thing happened with Kafka vs SQS on a 3-node cluster. "Without the paper everyone cites, you'd just use SQS. You don't need a distributed commit log." We went SQS and wrote a note: revisit at 20 engineers. The output isn't an answer. It's a map — what everyone agrees on, what nobody's saying out loud, what the alternative path actually looks like. It's called PRISM. Open source, works with any AI, install is stupid easy:
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