A structured adversarial council of 15 compressed reasoning lenses — deduplicated, cross-examined, and delivered as a Chairman's verdict with a 7-day action plan. No brainstorming. No theatre. Just the friction that catches the bet you can't afford to lose.
AE Audits is a one-shot adversarial review system for decisions where the cost of being wrong is real. Three things this is — and three things it isn't.
One decision in, one verdict out. You arrive at a single choice; you leave with a call, a 7-day plan, and the friction that produced both.
Built to break your framing, find the weakest load-bearing assumption, and surface the risk you are actively avoiding.
A fixed-scope engagement with one deliverable: the verdict document. No retainer, no follow-on calls, no rolling project.
Brainstorms generate options. AE Audits generates friction. Options are a vocabulary; a verdict is a decision.
Vibe-checks ratify what you already believe. The council is built to disagree with you in writing.
Workshops bill by the hour and run for weeks. This is a 48-hour engagement with a fixed deliverable.
Fifteen advisers, organised in five tiers by the kind of friction they apply. No celebrity cosplay. No catchphrase theatre. Each tier adds a distinct lens — together they cover strategic, operational, financial, and creative risk.
Attacks the framing. Asks whether the decision is even the right question. Probes whether the constraints are real or inherited. This tier exists to break the brief before the brief breaks you.
Pulls the camera out of your industry. Tests whether the decision is legible to someone who does not share your assumptions. Executor lens pressure-tests whether the plan can actually be shipped.
Grounds the decision in distribution, in build-vs-buy economics, and in what has already survived a hundred cycles. The "is this actually going to work in the market" tier.
Strips the decision down to the 20% that determines 80% of the outcome. Red-teams the failure modes. Forces truth-mode on every assumption, including the ones you have not written down.
Used as compressed reasoning lenses, not impersonations. Karpathy on whether the technical premise holds. Buffett on whether the moat compounds. Musk on whether the timeline is honest.
A single document. No ongoing retainer. Five sections, fixed contract. Written by the Chairman — the final decision-maker of the council — not by a committee.
A one-line call. Proceed, do not proceed, or proceed-with-conditions. No soft compromise.
Where the council converged and why. The arguments strong enough to survive deduplication.
The single most dangerous objection that survived the collision round. Named, not buried.
The one failure mode that would invalidate the decision. With the leading indicator to watch.
A concrete action plan for the first week. Owners, sequencing, kill-criteria. Not a roadmap.
A question that looks like a pricing decision — and isn't. Side-by-side: what a competent general-purpose AI or advisor returns, vs what the AE Audits council surfaces in the same 48 hours.
"Depends on your churn elasticity. Consider A/B testing."
Do not pivot. The pricing model is not the binding constraint. Three of your eight enterprise renewals carry MFN pricing clauses — any rate change triggers a mandatory re-quote and a 90-day cure window.
Every engagement is fixed-scope. No retainer, no follow-on calls. You submit a brief, you receive a verdict. If the verdict does not surface at least one risk you had not written down, you do not pay.
For decisions in the $10k–$100k range. Three advisers from the most relevant tiers. One collision round. Chairman's verdict.
For decisions in the $100k–$2M range. All 15 advisers across five tiers. Two collision rounds. Full Chairman's verdict with 7-day plan.
For irreversible decisions above $2M. Adds the defense round — your team responds to the verdict, the council responds back. Final verdict after defense.
One decision per engagement. 48-hour turnaround. If the verdict does not surface at least one risk you had not written down, you do not pay.
