AI Advisors: Bezos, Buffett & Gurus Debate Your Business Idea

Got a big business decision to make? Wish you had a star-studded board of directors, but without shelling out millions for consulting? Well, someone's thought of you, or at least thought of giving you a good laugh.

The Roast Room project, created by Nate Herkai and available on GitHub, assembles an AI dream team. These seven "advisors" are language models trained to impersonate business and consulting giants, like Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Paul Graham. Their mission? To debate your business idea live, as if they were in a real boardroom meeting. Not bad for free advice, right?

Basically, you propose a business decision or dilemma. Then, these seven AI agents, each embodying the personality and thinking style of the guru they represent, start debating among themselves. They use Claude Code, an environment powered by Anthropic's AI, to simulate the conversation. It's like a live podcast where the participants are just digital voices, but with the quirks of their human alter egos. They'll give you advice, criticism, and maybe a few jabs, all in real-time. The result is often as hilarious as it is potentially insightful.

Sure, the whole idea is a bit of a gimmick, but it's not entirely useless. Getting diverse perspectives, even algorithmically generated ones, can spark critical thinking about your idea. It will never replace real expert advice, but it's a fun, zero-cost way to test a hypothesis or see what objections might arise. After all, having a virtual Jeff Bezos tell you your idea sucks is less painful than hearing it from the real one, wouldn't you agree?

Nate Herkai's Roast Room project was released on GitHub in mid-June 2024 and offers an innovative and ironic approach to business consulting via artificial intelligence. It's a great example of how AI agents can be used in creative, interactive contexts, far beyond typical chatbots.