laoban.ai
BUIDL OPC Hackathon · Singapore · 07·2026

Meeting called to order · Agenda: one consequential decision

AI might agree with you. Your board won’t.

An anti-sycophancy decision system for the company of one.
The board advises. The founder always decides.

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Agenda II · The problem

Execution scaled.
Judgment didn’t.

Agents removed the headcount and kept the weight: every decision they escalate still lands on one founder — no partner, no pushback, no record. And the obvious advisor is the worst one:

Asking your assistantno record · no accountability
I’m thinking of raising our price from $29 to $49.
Great instinct — $49 signals premium positioning. You should absolutely go for it! Want me to draft the announcement? 🎉
Putting it to the boardon the record
CFORaise. Support 80% — CAC up 61%, price flat 12 months.
CLOObjection: the pricing promise in your own terms. Preserved verbatim.
THE MEMOKill criteria attached before anyone signs.

INDUSTRY SIGNAL — ~35% of independent founders report high stress (vs ~26% with employees); about 1 in 3 has considered quitting. Secondary source.

Agenda III · The answer

A real company has a board.
Now the company of one does too.

laoban.ai is the decision-governance layer: put one consequential decision before a data-driven board, run it through an adversarial procedure, and receive a signed-ready governance document — not a conversation.

01 — Submit

Table the decision

One question with stakes. Your preference is recorded — then sealed from the board.

02 — Deliberate

Blind, then adversarial

Directors form positions in isolation, on exclusive evidence. Then the walls fall and positions face cross-examination.

03 — Rule

Sign the memo

Dissent log, support scores, kill criteria — and a ruling line only you can fill.

The bench
CFO CMO Customer Rep CLO + adaptive seat + adaptive seat
4 permanent · ≤ 7 at the table

Agenda IV · The procedure

Disagreement, by design.

Founder preference: hidden  ·  Peer positions: invisible  ·  One evidence pipeline per seat

SEALED
CFO
speaks only in numbers
financials.csv
SUPPORT78
SUPPORT
supplied the kill numbers
SEALED
CMO
market & competitors
market-brief.md
SUPPORT70
SUPPORT
 
SEALED
Customer Rep
churn & sentiment
reviews.json
SUPPORT35
OPPOSE
revised on the financials
SEALED
CLO
terms & exposure
terms.md
SUPPORT15
OPPOSE
dissent survives — on record
SEALED
Mr. Opposite
mandated dissenter
no dataset — attacks the framing
SUPPORT20
OPPOSE
extracted the kill criteria
ALL EVIDENCE ON THE TABLEfinancials.csvreviews.jsonterms.mdmarket-brief.md

Same model, five verdicts — because each seat sees different evidence. Disagreement caused by information gaps resolves on its own. Surviving dissent is the signal worth a founder’s attention.

Agenda V · The charter

Not personas. Procedure.

Art. I

Blind review

Each director deliberates alone. Peer positions and the founder’s preference are absent by construction — not by polite prompting.

Art. II

Exclusive evidence

One pipeline per seat. Every stream is fully mined before fusion — nothing dilutes in a long shared context.

Art. III

Mandated dissent

Mr. Opposite holds no dataset. He attacks the framing itself and is scored on his strongest objection — never on harmony.

Art. IV

Delayed fusion

Then the walls fall: all evidence public, every position revisable. The final memo rests on complete information.

Art. V

Governance output

Dissent, support scores, kill criteria — an accountable document, not a transcript. Auditable long after the meeting ends.

Art. VI

Grounded procedure

Delphi method, premortem, devil’s advocate — validated decision science, encoded as an orchestration graph.

Diversity comes from evidence pipelines and mandates — not from personas.

Agenda VI · The artifact

laoban.ai
· advisory only ·
Decision MemoNo. 2026-0712-01  ·  awaiting ruling

Move the monthly price from $29 to $49?

Resolution before the founder: raise, with 60-day notice and grandfathering for existing customers. Automatic kill criteria attached.

Director positions · support scores
80%CFO
72%CMO
62%CUST REP
32%CLO
28%OPPOSITE
Dissent log · preserved verbatim
“Anchoring and irreversibility objections stand: $49 derives from competitor prices, not customer value.” MR. OPPOSITE — dissent recorded, not synthesized away
Kill criteria · auto-void

First 6 weeks at the new price: churn > 5% or new-customer conversion −30% → resolution voids itself. Roll back. Reconvene.

Founder’s ruling☐ Approve   ☐ Reject   ☐ Amend
Signed
Numbers, not vibes

Every director commits to a support score — a track record that can be audited, weighted, or fired.

Dissent has tenure

The minority opinion cannot be averaged out. It stays in the record, waiting to be right.

Decisions that expire

Kill criteria turn optimism into a tripwire: cross the line and the resolution voids itself.

One field stays blank

The ruling. Always the founder’s. Never the machine’s.

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Agenda VII · Sovereignty

“Human judgment
guides AI execution.”

— the organizer’s 2026 thesis

Most teams today

Agent employees

Execution agents that do the work of a company of one. The first half of the thesis.

laoban.ai

The judgment layer

The half everyone skipped: governance for the decisions all those agents escalate.

The board recommends, objects, quantifies, and sets kill criteria — but the ruling field stays blank until the founder signs. That is sovereignty, shipped as a product interaction.

Agenda VIII · The business

Priced like a board:
by the seat.

Who pays

One-person companies — founders commanding agent fleets with no one to pressure-test their judgment. Every pricing call, contract, and big purchase is a board matter.

Founder
$29
per month
  • The four permanent seats
  • 10 decisions a month
  • Memo archive — your governance record
Core offer Boardroom
$79
per month
  • Adaptive seats, incl. Mr. Opposite
  • Sentinel watches every kill criterion, reconvenes on breach
  • Live evidence via MCP — Stripe, analytics, support
High stakes
$99
per decision
  • One-off: fundraising terms, pricing, key hires
  • Full protocol + premortem
  • Cheaper than one bad decision
Next

A specialist-director marketplace — legal, growth, infra seats subscribed individually — where each director’s track record reprices the seat over time.

The board advises.
The founder always decides.

Built by a company of one — protected by a board.

Meeting adjourned · BUIDL OPC Hackathon SG · 12 July 2026
laoban.ai — live demo to follow