How to use the Council of Wisdom™

Start at the top of the chamber with the Subject bar. This short line titles the session and names every file you download later, so give it something you will recognise months from now.

• Press the microphone beside the field to dictate the subject instead of typing.
• Something like “Relocating the clinic to the east side” beats “Question 1”.
• You can change the subject at any point before you download.

Pick a domain — strategic, financial, ethical, and the rest. The domain tells the council what lens you need and suggests the thinkers best placed to help.

• The suggestion is only a starting point; you keep full control of the table.
• Changing the domain never erases the conversation you have already had.
• Unsure? Choose the closest fit and say more in your question.

Select the thinkers you want at the table. Each is grounded in their own public-domain works, so a smaller, well-chosen table often reads better than all ten at once.

• Three to five voices give contrast without becoming a wall of text.
• Deliberately seat someone likely to disagree with you.
• Responses are AI interpretations of published ideas, never the person themselves.

Type your question, dictate it with voice-to-text, or attach documents for the council to read. Word, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF, email, and Markdown files are all accepted, and the text is pulled out in your browser.

• End with a decision: Should we…? Which path…? What are the risks of…?
• Attach the background papers so every voice is working from the same facts.
• Read your dictated text before you send it — transcripts are not perfect.

Press Start deliberation. Each seated thinker answers in their own voice with a clear stance, and the session closes with an Opinion of the Council that draws the threads together.

• Read the individual voices before the summary — the disagreement is the value.
• The Opinion is a synthesis, not a vote or a verdict.
• The conversation log scrolls, so you can review everything before downloading.

New information, a correction, or a follow-up question goes in the second box. Attach further documents or dictate the update, then press Re-deliberate to have the same table reconsider.

• Tell the council what changed, not just what you now want.
• You can re-deliberate as often as you need within one session.
• Refreshing the page starts fresh — download before you close the tab.

Download the session as Markdown, Word, PowerPoint, or Excel. Files are named from your subject line, list the documents considered rather than repeating their text, and carry the human-judgment disclaimer.

• Word suits a written record; PowerPoint suits a briefing.
• Excel gives one row per voice, with the stance in its own column.
• Every format includes the disclaimer and the Marcus Aurelius Institute rights notice.