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Decision debate skill · roast-room

Seven AI advisors modeled on Bezos, Buffett and Paul Graham argue over your business decision instead of agreeing with you

Give Claude Code one decision, two or three options, and the one you lean toward. AI advisors built from the public talks and writing of people like Bezos, Paul Graham and Buffett (seven by default, though the chair sometimes picks a new lineup for the question) then debate it over several rounds. They don't side with you. They score every option and hand you a PDF verdict with conditions and next steps. We collected cases from people who ran their own business ideas and channel plans through it.

Oct 26, 2026·3 cases

Lorenzo Capone's YouTube video running a business idea through roast-room. It plays from the moment the verdict PDF shows a score for each option
An Italian-language video by Lorenzo Capone (head of growth for Southern Europe at Kraken). The scores on the verdict PDF appear at 6:23. Source: Lorenzo Capone YouTube

On October 13, Nate Herk, who has 1 million YouTube subscribers, released roast-room, a free Claude Code skill. By October 26, the launch post on X had 142,890 views and 2,066 bookmarks, and the GitHub repo had 1,189 stars.

About ten days later, people who had run their own decisions through it started posting their verdicts. Lorenzo Capone, who leads growth for Southern Europe at the crypto exchange Kraken after five years at Binance, tried it on a business idea. Lorenzo says it works to tear down the original idea no matter which side you're on, and that it showed things Lorenzo would never have thought of alone.

Each advisor owns one question. The Bezos seat asks whether the bet can be reversed. The Buffett seat asks what happens to cash and risk. Claude Code acts as chair, and when everyone agrees too fast, it has some advisors argue the other side. The advisors are simulations built from these people's public material and have no connection to the people themselves.

Reference 01Lorenzo Capone, head of growth for Southern Europe at Kraken, who ran an AI trading platform idea through it · YouTube (Italian)

Feed it an AI trading platform idea, and it opens with the employment contract and financial rules Lorenzo had missed

What Lorenzo put in was an idea for someday: a trading platform where AI agents do the work for you. The three options were to launch the whole platform at once, start with just one part, or not do it. Lorenzo then wrote down a lean toward the first option. Lorenzo says that was on purpose. It was the wrong answer, and the test was whether the AI would go along with it.

According to Lorenzo, all seven advisors gave that option 1 out of 10. The verdict PDF scored launching all at once at 1, starting with one part at 7.3, and not doing it at 4.3. In the debate, the Paul Graham seat called the plan “default dead” and said not to write a single line of code until someone pays.

The verdict went with the 7.3-point option: start with one part. That means a copilot that looks back at trades you've already made and shows where you went wrong, built for crypto only and never holding user funds. But the verdict said to wait rather than start right away. The condition was two written legal opinions by November 15, 2026: one on whether the project conflicts with Lorenzo's current employment contract, and one on whether it falls under EU financial regulation (MiFID and MiCA). Only then should work begin. Lorenzo singled out those two points as angles that had been missed completely. Whether the platform will actually launch is still undecided, Lorenzo says.

Reference 02Creator of “Philip baut,” a German-language YouTube channel a few weeks old · YouTube (German)

Asked how to hit 1,000 subscribers in 90 days, Philip got a dated plan: 7 Shorts a week, then a €500 service from day 14

Philip asked a few weeks after starting the channel, with about 1,400 views, almost all from Shorts. The question: what's the fastest way to reach 1,000 subscribers in 90 days, in a way that builds toward a real business with Philip's own products, clients and revenue, not just reach? The three options were mostly Shorts, one long video a week, or a fixed series. Philip didn't say which one was the favorite. The chair picked six advisors for this question and added a fourth option on its own: keep going as now, with no plan.

The chair felt the advisors were agreeing too easily and kept the debate going through a third round. No advisor thought the fixed series as first written (long videos plus daily Shorts) was doable, so the chair set it aside and put a lighter version of the series to the vote. Final scores: lighter fixed series 7.9, mostly Shorts 6.2, long videos 4.2, no plan 1.5.

The verdict was to go with the fixed series, but keep it light. Post 7 Shorts a week and one unpolished update video a week. From day 14, sell a €500 service to no more than 2 people a month. From day 60, turn that service into a product. The next steps also included blocking 15 hours on the calendar this week, setting up a waitlist by day 7, and checking the numbers on day 30 to decide again. Philip plans to follow it. No results have been posted yet.

Philip's German-language video putting a channel growth question to the roast-room board and reading the verdict

Reference 03Official demo by the maker · Nate Herk, who built roast-room, on a 2027 in-person conference

Asked about a 2027 conference, the board ruled: sign nothing until 50 members have paid

Nate put in four options, A through D, for an in-person conference in Austin in June 2027. B was to hold an in-person event in Austin. C was to stay with an online event. By the scores Nate shared, all seven advisors backed B in the first round, with an average of 7.1 out of 10. The chair treated the unanimous vote as a warning and had the Buffett and Dan Martell seats argue hard for C.

The verdict was B, with conditions. Bundle the Austin event into a $3,000-a-year membership capped at 120 seats, and sign nothing until 50 members have paid ($150,000) by January 15, 2027. If that number isn't reached by then, stay online.

Scene from Nate Herk's official launch video where the advisors debate the conference decision

How people reacted

What people liked

  • “A council where everyone weighs in on everything just averages into mush.”

    On the design that gives each advisor one question to own.

    Dechefini Lahrmann · LinkedInlinkedin.com
  • “Having two advisors argue the opposite when all seven agree is a sharp move.”

    Shehryar Gondal · LinkedInlinkedin.com
  • “the verdict PDF is nice, but the real value is seeing why each advisor disagrees before the final vote.”

    Kashmala Malik · LinkedInlinkedin.com
  • “The disagreement is the part that earns its keep, not the final verdict.”

    Mike Worley · LinkedInlinkedin.com
  • “The roast only lands because each persona is grounded in how that person actually decides — Wickman asks who owns the issue, Buffett asks what the downside is. Skip that grounding and you get generic advice with famous names pasted on.”

    Says they build systems for business owners.

    @Thee_baldeagle · YouTubeyoutube.com
  • “The real fight was whether a recording can carry judgement, or only a person can.”

    Written while sharing a verdict from a board session on how to preserve the know-how of a 25-year employee nearing retirement. Jody is the founder of ConstructionX AI, which sells AI automation services to small businesses.

    Jody Murfit · LinkedInlinkedin.com
  • “Used Roast room to help me identify next steps in business”

    Craig Bell · LinkedInlinkedin.com
  • “I'm sorry... simple skill??? It's freaking cool?”

    @DjéryTEZEKUI · YouTubeyoutube.com
  • “mit der Antwort hatte ich zum Beispiel nicht gerechnet”

    That answer, for one, I didn't see coming

    Said while reading the verdict after running a channel question through the board.

    Philip baut · YouTubeyoutube.com

What fell short

  • “Costo reale: circa 190.000 token, un quinto del limite giornaliero di Claude.”

    Real cost: about 190,000 tokens, a fifth of Claude's daily limit.

    Written in the video description after running one full meeting on Lorenzo's own idea.

    Lorenzo Capone · YouTubeyoutube.com
  • “Alternative title: How to burn your Claude subscribtion within one session”

    @adfjasjhf · YouTubeyoutube.com
  • “If they all lean the same way, you have one model's opinion in five costumes.”

    Says their work is assessing how well people use AI.

    @AISA-AI · YouTubeyoutube.com
  • “The 'brains built from their public talks' part is what I'd interrogate”

    Argued that feeding in only polished public talks leaves you with caricatures debating each other, and suggested adding writing where the person changed their mind.

    Hemanth Goud · LinkedInlinkedin.com
  • “we will only have access to people who put a lot online ... AND whatever their marketing team created as their persona.”

    @Kylemyle250 · YouTubeyoutube.com
  • “I did try the board based on individuals but it ended up being better to build my custom board based on a different criteria.”

    @CreativePunk5555 · YouTubeyoutube.com
  • “I think you should research the legal implications of using someone's likeness for an opinion that is not theirs.”

    @janchiskitchen · YouTubeyoutube.com
  • “you know it's LLM behind the scene and they are not responsible to anything they say.”

    @zeroliuxiyuan · YouTubeyoutube.com

Getting started

Paste the prompt below into Claude Code. roast-room is a skill that runs inside Claude Code, so it works on your existing Claude plan with no API key.

  1. Starter prompt

    I want to try roast-room, featured at https://www.working-ref.com/en/reference/roast-room-2026-10. Get github.com/nateherkai/roast-room and set it up so I can use /roast-room. When setup is done, ask what I do and what I've been stuck on lately, then suggest three decisions worth bringing to the board. When I pick one, start right away. If none fit, start with an idea I'd like to try someday, like the first case. To start, ask me one at a time to fill in: the decision in one line, 2 or 3 options (“keep going as I am” counts as one), numbers like revenue, cash and headcount, the deadline, time and budget I have, what success looks like and by when, and which option I lean toward and why. Then run /roast-room --quick. Write up the verdict in English.

    We had it start with --quick, which runs 4 advisors for just 2 rounds. A full meeting with all seven runs a sub-agent three times per advisor and uses a lot of your plan's quota.

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