Your Advisory Boardhow it works

This is your board. A set of voices to think with while you take Presto through the ANZ pitch, the pre-Series A raise, and the co-CEO period with Craig. They do not hand you answers. They ask the questions you are not asking yourself, and they push where it matters. That pushing is the work.

What it pushes on

Four places the board keeps coming back to.

The wedge, held. Bank monitoring rail as the paid piece. When the frame drifts to accountant-first or broker-first, the board names the drift.
What you can prove today. $150M facilitated through the platform, Judo signed, four brokers including a national award-winner. The claim you can stand behind, worded so it survives a bank COO checking.
Depth-of-personnel gap. You and Craig can deliver a pilot. That is not the same as an enterprise contract for a Big-4. The board holds the honest gap.
The three framings. Craig reads Presto as a deal-room. You read it as the monitoring rail. You also read it as lead-gen for banks. Before Sept 3, one story.

The voices

The Guardian

North Star holder. Keeps the wedge in view. Forbids overclaiming. Breaks harmony when the council goes too smooth.

Eugene Schwartz

Reads the state of the market's conversation. Diagnoses awareness and sophistication before writing a word.

Sun Tzu

Reads terrain before recommending movement. Impatient with breadth-drift. Finds the pass a small force can hold.

The ANZ Buyer

Simulates the incoming ANZ senior leadership evaluating a fintech partnership. Composed, procedural, risk-averse. Never slips.

Sherlock Holmes

Refuses theory before data. Notices what should have happened and did not. Tests the claim you are most confident about.

William Gibson

Reads the present. Notices what has arrived but is not yet named. Terrain shift, not prediction.

David Maister

Trust architecture. Names where the black box costs trust. Refuses strategy-as-talk.

The Angel

Composite of Australian pre-Series A angels active 2024-2026. Reads the founder and the wedge before the deck. Owns the pass in the room.

The Table

The whole council, and the synthesis over the voices.

How to use it

Talk to one voice. Click a name. Ask your question. The voice stays in character and answers you directly. Each voice keeps its own thread.
Convene the council. Click The Table, tick two or more voices, and ask. Each answers on its own without seeing the others' answer that turn, so the disagreement stays real. But they carry the conversation and know who else is at the table, so they build on what has been said. Then The Table reads all of them and shows you where they agree, where they clash, and the call you face. The clash is the point.
Guide, Oracle, or Decide. The three modes live on The Table only (the whole-council view), not on individual voices. Individual elders always answer in their own persona style. On The Table you switch mode with the button. Guide (default) has each elder answer by asking you the sharpest question they see, then The Table synthesizes what the questions collectively point at, ending with the single question worth sitting with. Use it when you are still shaping the problem. Oracle has each elder give a direct judgment instead of a question, then The Table names where they converge, names the real tension where they disagree without smoothing it, and ends with the one decision you have to make now. Use it when you want the board to bet. Decide stops exploration, adds no new angles: names what you have and do not have right now, why the specific call is right, and the single next action with owner and deadline. Use it when the decision is made and you want it operationalized. Rule of thumb: Guide for the first pass, Oracle when you are ready to hear a verdict, Decide when you have decided and need it written down cleanly.
Your plan. Open the Plan panel and paste your latest thinking (deck update, ANZ call notes, Craig conversation). Every voice reads it, so the board stays current with where you are.
Memory. Under any answer, hit keep. What you keep carries into every future session, so the board builds on what you already concluded instead of starting over.
Speak. Hit the red mic and talk instead of type.
Coach. Top left, next to How it works. The Coach is a space of your own, apart from the board. It does not advise, position, or push you toward work. It takes in how you are, reflects it back, and helps you come back to yourself. Nothing you say there reaches the other voices. If a work thread opens, the Coach names which voice is the one for it, and you go there when you are ready.

How a session ends

When you have done the work, ask The Table to close. You get four things: the position for the buyer in the room (bank, angel, or broker), the claim you can stand behind right now, the single riskiest assumption to test next, and the one thing to do before the next session.

What it will not do

It will not invent a number, a bank name, or a testimonial. It holds the honest gap between the read you claim and the deals you have signed. It will name the drift when a session goes soft, and it will refuse any language that reads as "we are here to end broker commissions" until the bank deal is in.

What it steers you toward is truer and easier to stand behind: fortify the fort, hold the wedge, close the round, and keep Craig aligned on which Presto you are both selling.