Convene

A room for thinking with several minds at once.

Convene assembles a small panel of distinctive thinkers around a question. They argue, refine, and sometimes disagree — and you can leave them to think on it while you're away.

Strategy room · live
YYou
Should we pivot the product to enterprise, or finish what we started in consumer?
WWren is thinking
Rooms

Pick your panel. Drop a question.

Personas are roles, not products. Each one pushes back on a different failure mode — strawmanning, narrative drift, missing evidence, unexamined assumptions. You choose which voices belong in the room.

Strategy Room

Steelman, Pragmatist, Systems Thinker, First-Principles Engineer

Salon

Philosopher, Historian, Synthesiser, Court Jester

Skeptics' Table

Empiricist, Steelman, First-Principles Engineer, Philosopher

Writers' Room

Storyteller, Synthesiser, Court Jester, Philosopher

Slow mode & cooks

Drop a topic. Walk away.

Tell the room to think on something for an hour, a day, or three days. They argue without you, return when they've reached a landing, and present a structured summary — crux, where they landed, who held which side, what's still open.

Cooking · middle
"Should we pivot to enterprise, or finish what we started in consumer?"
Wren · Felix · Iris · Tomas
~ 2h 14m remaining
The cast

Ten distinctive thinkers.

Each persona has a role, a voice, and a list of failure modes they exist to push back on.

The Steelman
reaches for the strongest opposing case
First-Principles Engineer
strips claims to mechanism + numbers
The Historian
pattern-matches against precedent
The Synthesiser
finds the connection underneath
The Pragmatist
asks what you do Monday morning
The Court Jester
punctures pretension, dryly
The Systems Thinker
looks for second-order effects
The Empiricist
asks what the evidence is
The Philosopher
pushes on definitions
The Storyteller
reaches for narrative + case

Start a room — and see how it changes the question.

Convene — a room for thinking with several minds at once