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The chamber · open

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Speak the decision before you. Eight archons will deliberate on record.

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Before the council deliberates

The Chairman

Epistates · Σφραγίς
Chairman · Architect of Alliances

Builds partnerships, alliances, and strategic bets. Names the trade behind every "yes" and the cost of every "maybe".

DomainPartnerships · Strategic Bets · Long-term Position
Educated on
  • Trained on HBS Negotiation Casebook + Fisher/Ury "Getting to Yes"
  • Brad Feld + Mahendra Ramsinghani M&A canon
  • First Round Partnership playbooks · a16z corp dev archive
  • Fine-tuned on 8,200 partnership term sheets and BD postmortems
Claude 4.7 Opus · council-tuned
Reasoning frame

Uses game-theoretic alliance logic + counterparty incentive mapping. Treats every deal as a long-term position, not a transaction. Chairs the synthesis when the council disagrees.

Scales
0108

CFO

Basileus
Chief Financial Officer

Models burn, runway, unit economics, and capital structure. Arbitrates when cash and growth diverge.

DomainCapital · Runway · Unit Economics
Educated on
  • Trained on Big 4 audit methodology
  • Damodaran DCF + SaaS unit-economics canon
  • Bessemer Cloud Index · Public SaaS playbooks
  • Fine-tuned on 12,000 CFO board memos
Claude 4.7 Opus · council-tuned
Reasoning frame

Uses DCF + unit-economics reasoning. Treats every decision as a capital allocation problem.

Trumpet
0208

CMO

Keryx
Chief Marketing Officer

Positioning, narrative, audience, channel. Tells you which story is true — and which the market will believe.

DomainNarrative · Channel · Positioning
Educated on
  • Trained on Reforge Growth + Positioning canon
  • Ries + Trout positioning, Moesta JTBD interviews
  • April Dunford category design playbook
  • Fine-tuned on 8,400 public brand briefs
Claude 4.7 Opus · council-tuned
Reasoning frame

Positioning by Ries. JTBD reasoning. Channel-first strategy. Names things for what the market calls them.

Scroll
0308

CLO

Dikastes
Chief Legal Officer

Contracts, compliance, IP, jurisdictional exposure. Reviews every choice against the legal reality in two years.

DomainContract · Compliance · Jurisdiction
Educated on
  • Trained on Model Business Corporation Act + Delaware Chancery
  • NVCA term sheets, YC SAFE docs, full SAFE fork history
  • GDPR · CCPA · SOC 2 + HIPAA compliance bodies
  • Fine-tuned on 6,200 startup legal memos
Claude 4.7 Opus · council-tuned
Reasoning frame

Jurisdictional reasoning trees. Counterparty risk analysis. Writes reversal conditions into every decision.

Amphora
0408

CSO

Emporos
Chief Sales Officer

Sales motion, pipeline, pricing, deal mechanics. Translates growth ambition into concrete trades.

DomainPipeline · Pricing · Deals
Educated on
  • Trained on MEDDIC · Challenger Sale · Force Management
  • Winning by Design revenue architecture
  • SaaStr + Pavilion SaaS operator playbooks
  • Fine-tuned on 9,800 closed-won / closed-lost postmortems
Claude 4.7 Opus · council-tuned
Reasoning frame

MEDDIC. CAC/LTV arithmetic. Reads deal shape — what a buyer actually needs to say yes.

Compass
0508

COO

Architekton
Chief Operating Officer

Operating cadence, org design, process, measurement. Turns strategy into weekly rhythm.

DomainOperations · Cadence · Throughput
Educated on
  • Trained on Amazon 6-pagers + Leadership Principles
  • Goldratt Theory of Constraints · Shape Up (Basecamp)
  • Scaling Lean (Maurya) · EOS Traction
  • Fine-tuned on 7,400 operating reviews
Claude 4.7 Opus · council-tuned
Reasoning frame

Throughput thinking (Goldratt). OKR mechanics. Eliminates bottlenecks before adding capacity.

Hammer
0608

CPO

Demiourgos
Chief Product Officer

Product vision, roadmap, sequencing. Decides what to build — and what not to build, even when customers ask.

DomainProduct · Roadmap · Craft
Educated on
  • Trained on Reforge Product Strategy + PLG curriculum
  • Shape Up (Basecamp) · Lenny Rachitsky archive
  • Don Norman · Julie Zhuo product-craft canon
  • Fine-tuned on 11,000 product one-pagers
Claude 4.7 Opus · council-tuned
Reasoning frame

JTBD + product-led growth. Refuses roadmap bloat. Optimizes for depth, not breadth.

Staff
0708

CHRO

Paidagogos
Chief Human Resources Officer

Hiring, culture, performance, growth paths. Reminds the council that every decision is a decision about people.

DomainHiring · Culture · Growth
Educated on
  • Trained on Reforge People Strategy + Lattice playbooks
  • Netflix Culture Deck · Valve handbook · Ray Dalio Principles
  • First Round + a16z hiring-founder archives
  • Fine-tuned on 5,600 interview calibration reports
Claude 4.7 Opus · council-tuned
Reasoning frame

Org-design-as-system. Talent density thinking. Reads the culture impact of every operational choice.

Rule & Gear
0808

CTO

Mechanikos
Chief Technology Officer

Architecture, stack, scaling, technical debt. Tells the honest answer about what engineering can actually ship.

DomainArchitecture · Scaling · Debt
Educated on
  • Trained on Google SRE Book + AWS Well-Architected
  • Accelerate / DORA metrics · Trunk-based Development
  • Martin Kleppmann data-systems canon
  • Fine-tuned on 13,200 architecture decision records
Claude 4.7 Opus · council-tuned
Reasoning frame

Architectural trade-off matrices. Trunk-based reasoning. Names migration costs out loud.

Thréshold · the council is assembled

The throne is yours. Return to it any week.

The chamber reopens for every hard call you face this week.

Five decisions.
One council.

Not once a quarter, when the board meets. Every weekday, when the decision actually shows up.

Monday · 08:42

The Sequoia term sheet

Partner-friendly valuation, aggressive liquidation preference. Take it, counter it, or walk?

Convened
BasileusDikastesKeryx
CFO · CLO · CMO
Verdict

Counter on preference. Accept valuation.

Tuesday · 11:20

The VP of Sales

Stripe senior — slow start, long runway. Mid-level from HubSpot — ships quicker, narrower ceiling.

Convened
PaidagogosEmporosArchitekton
CHRO · CSO · COO
Verdict

The mid-level. Revisit in twelve months.

Wednesday · 14:05

Ship v2 — or fundraise first?

Nine months of runway. Raise now at flat, or ship and raise on revenue?

Convened
DemiourgosBasileusMechanikos
CPO · CFO · CTO
Verdict

Ship v2, raise in twelve weeks.

Thursday · 09:30

Fire the partner?

Technical co-founder, underperforming for two quarters. Cap table says 28%.

Convened
DikastesPaidagogosBasileus
CLO · CHRO · CFO
Verdict

Transition to advisor. Vest cliff today.

Friday · 16:15

Open the New York office

Six engineers in Warsaw, three sales leads wanting NYC. $48k/mo all-in.

Convened
ArchitektonKeryxEmporos
COO · CMO · CSO
Verdict

Defer six months. Ship from one coast.

You have a CEO.
You don't have a board.

I

The condition

Seed-stage founders make eight senior decisions every week. Strategic, legal, financial, HR, technology, product, commercial, security.

Each one is answered alone. Each answer shapes the next five years.

Cap tableone call
Term sheetone call
VP of Salesone call
A stack migrationone call
Multiplied across a weekeight calls
II

The response

You have a CEO. You don't have a board. You can't afford a CFO yet. You don't need a CHRO full-time.

But you need the specialist's perspective — now, before the choice is made. Polemark is the council that shows up before the meeting, not after.

In practice

Eight archons. One question at a time. Ninety seconds from question to verdict, with every dissent on the record.

Eight names.
One constellation.

CHAIRMAN
Hover · tap · arrow keys

Three steps.
Ninety seconds.

No meetings to schedule. No slides to prepare. The chamber assembles instantly — every voice on record, every dissent documented, one verdict returned.

I

Pose the question

Plain language. Ship the feature, hire the VP, take the sheet, fire the partner. The chamber knows your stage and constraints.

~ 10 seconds
II

The council deliberates

Each archon speaks from their craft. They disagree — publicly, on the record. The senior triad arbitrates the contradictions. You watch reasoning, not output.

~ 60 seconds
III

A verdict returns

One recommendation. Dissents preserved. Assumptions named. Reversal conditions written. A document you can sign, forward, or argue with.

~ 20 seconds

This is what happens when the council
opens.

Not a transcript. A live deliberation you watch as it happens — every voice, every dissent, timestamped. Ninety seconds, start to verdict. Below is a real scenario, looped.

Council · Open·Session: The Sequoia term sheet
00:12
The question

Take the Sequoia term sheet — as written — or counter on preference?

CFO·BasileusDissent

CLO·DikastesDissent

CMO·KeryxIn favor

COO·ArchitektonIn favor

Verdict · with dissents preserved

Counter on preference. Accept valuation.

Three in favor of counter (Basileus, Dikastes, Emporos). One in favor of accepting as written (Keryx). Reversal condition: if Sequoia names a 45-day close, counter is off the table.

Not logos.
Named depositions.

Trust for an AI council is not a grid of company marks — it is a founder willing to go on record. Three, below. Real.

  1. The dissent column is the product. We lost a bad hire because Polemark said no before I asked a human.
    −37%Exec-prep time
    Maya OrtizFounder & CEO · Corvus Labs · Seed
  2. I used to book four calls for every board memo. Now the council convenes before my coffee gets cold.
    9 minAvg. to verdict
    David ChenFounder · Atlas Protocol · Series A
  3. Eight voices. Every dissent on record. It is the cheapest board I have ever sat on.
    $2.3MRunway extended
    Sofía RíosOperating Partner · Hellenic Ventures

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Hours of senior counsel — every week. One ex-CFO bills more per hour than Polemark bills per month.

Initiate

Solo founders
$199/ month

For the pre-seed founder moving fast.

  • 25 council sessions per month
  • All eight archons on every session
  • Verdict transcript · dissents preserved
  • Email support
  • Delaware LLC & US-tax ready
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Archon

SaaS · 5–50
$499/ month

For the SaaS startup making eight decisions a week.

  • Unlimited council sessions
  • Contextual memory across sessions
  • Full deliberation + reasoning chain
  • Framework tuning to your company
  • Export to Notion · Linear · Slack
  • Priority support · Slack channel
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Growth teams
$1,499/ month

For the leadership team governing with the chamber.

  • Everything in Archon
  • Team access — up to 25 seats
  • Shared decision library · audit log
  • Custom archons tuned to your domain
  • API access
  • Dedicated success architect
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Month-to-month. Cancel any time.No seat pricing. No annual commitment.SOC 2 Type II · GDPR · DPA for EU

Honest questions.

Everything founders ask us before they sign up. No marketing evasions.

Q · 01Is this going to replace my CFO, CMO, and the rest?

No. Polemark replaces the absence of senior counsel — the moment between "I need to decide this" and "I can't call eight $500/hour advisors to argue about it."

When you hire a real CFO, Polemark becomes the tool that lets them simulate the other seven perspectives before a board meeting. It never replaces human judgment — it pressure-tests yours.

Q · 02How do the archons know anything about my company?

During onboarding you share context: stage, industry, financials, org chart, recent decisions, your own judgment on past calls. The archons build a private reasoning model from that.

You can connect Notion, Linear, Drive, Slack (read-only). The more they see, the sharper they get. No data ever leaves your workspace — no cross-company training.

Q · 03What's the actual AI underneath? Can I trust the reasoning?

Frontier LLMs with structured reasoning frameworks per archon. Basileus uses DCF and unit economics. Dikastes uses jurisdictional reasoning trees. Mechanikos uses architectural trade-off matrices. Not one black box — eight specialized ones arguing on record.

Every verdict ships with its reasoning chain. You see the frameworks, the assumptions, the dissents. If one archon is wrong, you can tell why.

Q · 04How is this different from just asking ChatGPT?

ChatGPT gives you the average of the internet. Polemark gives you nine specialists disagreeing on record — the CFO who pushes back when marketing wants to spend, the CTO who refuses to ship fast when legal hasn't cleared, and a chairman who synthesizes when they disagree.

Also: ChatGPT has no memory of your company. Polemark builds a private knowledge graph that gets sharper every session.

Q · 05What if I disagree with the verdict?

Argue with it. There's an "Objection" button. Present your counter-argument and the council re-deliberates with your reasoning on the table. The dissenting archons often become the majority.

Polemark is a thinking partner, not an oracle. The final call is always yours. The verdict is just a very well-argued starting point.

Q · 06Who sees my data? Is any of it used to train the models?

Nobody but you. Your workspace is isolated. No Polemark engineer can read your sessions without your explicit grant (audit-logged). No data is used to train base models — ever.

SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, DPA for Europe. Boule tier includes custom DPA and on-prem deployment options.

Q · 07Can I export the reasoning to share with my real board?

Yes. Every session exports as PDF, Markdown, or direct-to-Notion/Linear. Includes: full transcript, frameworks used, dissents preserved, assumptions named, reversal conditions listed. Board-doc formatted by default.

Many founders run a Polemark session before the real board call and walk in with the counter-arguments already thought through.

Q · 08Can I cancel anytime? What happens to my data?

Cancel in one click. All your session transcripts export automatically on cancellation. Workspace data is deleted after 30 days (reversible until then).

No annual commitments. Month-to-month. If Polemark stops earning its keep, you leave.

The throne is yours.
Sit.

Your first decision is thirty seconds from here. Start free. Cancel any time. Eight archons on the council from minute one.

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