Decision review and governance for founders, executives and boards

Challenge the decision before you commit.
Seven independent seats. One honest verdict.

Describe a consequential decision. In minutes, seven independent perspectives return a verdict, the strongest case for proceeding, the cost of waiting, and exactly what would change the answer. You decide. We keep the record.

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Council verdict · specimenIllustrative

Proceed, but only on conditions.

7 perspectives · 4 oppose, 3 support · dissent on the record

4
Material risks: 2
Formal red flags: 79%
Council confidence

Strongest case for proceeding: the candidate could help build the capabilities the organisation lacks.

Seven perspectives. One verdict. Every dissent on the record.

What is The Voussoir?

The Voussoir is decision review and governance software. Seven independent AI perspectives ask the questions a well-run board would ask, challenge a consequential decision before it is committed, record their dissent and state what would change the answer. People decide, and the decision is kept in a tamper-evident record.

Board-level challenge, on demand

Not every decision can wait for a board meeting. Not every organisation has a board.

A well-run board does something most leaders cannot do alone: it questions a decision from several disciplines before it is committed. The Voussoir brings that challenge to any decision, whenever one surfaces. Seven AI perspectives ask what a good board asks. Can it be executed? What is the exposure? Where could approval or standing be lost? Will people and the market move as assumed? Can the organisation deliver it?

With no board

The challenge you would otherwise have to assemble: a hire, a deal, a raise or a pivot, tested at any hour, before you commit.

With a board

Examine the proposal before it reaches the table. The brief carries the dissent and the conditions into your board pack.

Advising others

Put a client's decision through the same seven disciplines before you scope the work or write the recommendation.

The Voussoir is not a board. It carries no authority, fiduciary duty or accountability, and its seats are AI perspectives, not people. It supplies one function a good board provides: structured challenge from several disciplines before a decision is committed. You and your people decide.

The product, as it is today

From a consequential decision to a governed, recorded outcome.

Rendered with the live product components. Illustrative specimen, not a real client decision.

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Council verdict

Proceed, but only on conditions.

The split is real: three seats support, four oppose, and two raise formal red flags about authority and resourcing.

7 perspectives examined this decision

4/7 oppose · 2 Oppose · 2 Lean oppose · 2 Lean support · 1 Support

Material risks:: 4
Formal Red Flags:: 2 (The Governance Lens, The Industrialist)
Mandatory hold:: Not triggered
Council confidence:: 79%

Convergence does not mean identical reasoning. Each perspective examines a different source of exposure.

The Governance Lens

Oppose85% · High

Formal Red Flag — threshold crossed

Authority and accountability are unclear before the mandate begins.

Perspective

The Council assesses that unclear decision rights and reporting lines materially increase the risk that the executive cannot deliver the intended mandate, irrespective of individual capability.

Strongest case for proceeding

The executive's apparent capability could help build the very controls and structure the organisation currently lacks.

Cost of inaction

Waiting prolongs reliance on existing leadership capacity and may lose access to this specific candidate.

What would change this seat's stance

A documented mandate with named decision rights, resources and an accountable owner.

Material risk

Unclear accountability could leave the appointment without the authority needed to succeed.

One system, not four tools

Challenge before. Govern during. Remember after.

Board portals store the paper. The Voussoir puts the decision under structured institutional challenge first, then carries it through approval into a permanent record. A decision can move from Council to Boardroom, and back to Council when the board needs it re-examined.

Council

Seven independent perspectives challenge the decision before you commit.

Decision Room

Triage, attest, dissent, resolve. Humans decide, with the evidence in front of them.

Boardroom

Dockets, board packs and roll-calls so the decision goes through governance intact.

Ledger

A tamper-evident record of what was considered, who decided and why.

Asking a chatbot

One voice, one framing, one answer
Agreement is the default; dissent is optional
No record of who decided or why

Convening the Council

Seven lenses, each with its own stance and confidence
The strongest case for proceeding and the cost of waiting, stated
Material risks separated from formal red flags
Dissent recorded, decisions attested, history verifiable

Challenge a decision Read a published case

The Boardroom

Governance workspace included. Not an add-on, not a separate contract.

Most board software stores and distributes the paper. The Voussoir runs the decision itself: challenged before the meeting, examined in the room, resolved on the record, and remembered afterwards. Use it beside your current board portal, or on its own for committees that do not need a heavyweight one.

Dockets and agendas
A docket for every meeting, with decisions in order. Adjourn the meeting and the agenda locks.
Council brief on every item
Each agenda item carries the Council's verdict, dissent and conditions.
Recorded positions
Concur, concur with reservations, dissent, abstain or not participating. Written reasons are required for dissent.
Resolutions with conditions
Approve, approve with conditions, reject or defer, with who decided and when.
Action register
Owners, due dates and status for everything the board committed to.
Board pack in one click
A print-ready pack for the meeting, built from the docket.
Tamper-evident record
Every step is time-stamped in a hash-chained history you can verify on demand.
Workspace and roles
Owners, admins and members, by invitation, up to 15 participants on the Board plan.
Reference library
Upload your own policies and precedents so the Council reasons with your context.
Reading Mode
A distraction-free view for iPads and boardroom screens.
Scenario A against B
Put two options through the same Council and compare the dissent.
Outcome tracking
Return to each decision later and see how the Council's concerns held up.

The Board plan: from $1,200 a month, up to 15 participants.

Boardroom, Decision Room, Council and the tamper-evident record, under one subscription. Larger bodies and public institutions: see Institutional.

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Who it is for

Anyone whose decision someone else will have to live with.

Start with the situation you are in. Every path begins the same way: state the decision and the seven seats go to work.

Founders and CEOs

You are about to make a call that is hard to reverse.

A key hire, fundraising terms, pricing, a pivot, a big contract.

Challenge a decision, free

Executives and investors

Two good options, and you need to know which one survives scrutiny.

Scenario A vs B, deep deliberation, investment and portfolio calls.

See plans

Boards, committees and corporate secretaries

A proposal reaches the table and nobody has tried to break it.

Add the Council brief to your board pack, record each director's position, keep the decision record.

See the Boardroom

Advisors and consultancies

Clients want a second opinion before you scope the work.

Run client decisions fast, write sharper briefs, and earn commission on referrals.

Partner with us

Already use a board portal or a consultancy? Keep them. They distribute the papers and do the research. The Voussoir is the step before: it challenges the decision itself, and its brief can sit inside the pack you already send.

Every consequential decision deserves adversarial review. Most get none.

High-stakes decisions across boards, sovereign committees, and executive teams are typically made from a single point of view, without a structured channel for dissent. The Voussoir replaces that single view with seven institutional lenses that deliberate in parallel before a verdict is issued.

Single point of view

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The Voussoir

55%

of US public company directors say at least one fellow board member should be replaced, the highest level in the survey's history.

PwC, 2025 Annual Corporate Directors Survey

13%

of directors rate their board packs “extremely effective”, and 59% report three or more areas of concern with them.

NACD and Board Intelligence, board packs research, 2024

35%

of directors say their boards have incorporated AI into their oversight role, and 43% name keeping pace with AI as their top concern.

PwC, 2025 Annual Corporate Directors Survey, via Corporate Compliance Insights

In July 2024 a faulty CrowdStrike update disabled about 8.5 million Windows devices. CrowdStrike attributed it to a bug in its own quality-control system. Parametrix estimated direct losses near $5.4 billion for the US Fortune 500 alone, and insurance modellers put insured losses between $300 million and $1.5 billion. A reminder of how far one undetected error can travel. Source: Fortune.

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Frame it

State the decision in your own words.

Challenge it

Seven seats examine it independently, none seeing the others' work first.

Decide with the record

Receive the verdict, the dissent and the conditions for reversal.

How it works

Three steps from question to verdict.

Seven adversarial perspectives. One Council.

Each seat is a permanent lens with a question it never stops asking.

The Arch-Logician

Trust and adoption

"Will the wider market and the people around this decision move the way the plan assumes?"

The Compressive Analyst

Capital exposure

"What is the real capital exposure, and what does being wrong cost?"

The Fatigue-Gauge

Brand and standing

"What harm compounds quietly, long after this decision is made?"

The Governance Lens

Policy and legitimacy

"Where could approval or standing be lost?"

The Horizon-Surveyor

The underlying system

"What does the underlying system make possible, and what does this quietly foreclose?"

The Industrialist

Operational capacity

"Can the organisation actually absorb, resource and deliver this?"

The Placement Master

Execution path

"Where is the bottleneck that decides whether this plan survives contact with reality?"

Specialist councils

The seven core seats, plus specialists who know your sector.

Every decision is challenged by the seven permanent seats. For regulated and technical decisions, sector specialists join them: a clinical-trials risk lead for a drug programme, a zoning and entitlements lead for a development, a treasury lens for a financing. Specialist councils are available from the Pro plan.

You can also build your own seats and add your own reference documents.

Universal Integrity Framework

Built into the architecture, not bolted on.

The Voussoir operates under a Universal Integrity Framework. Certain categories of decision, those designed to extract rather than create value, or to harm rather than enable, fall outside the Council's scope. This is not a policy. It is an architectural constraint, evaluated on every submission before any seat is convened.

The Decision Ledger

Every decision on the record, and verifiable.

The Ledger keeps the framing, each seat's stance and confidence, the dissent, the human attestations and the resolution as a tamper-evident record. Decisions move from Council to Decision Room to Boardroom, and a board can send any decision back to the Council for a fresh challenge. Over time you see which risks your organisation keeps underestimating.

Session · 2026-06-14Illustrative specimen

Sign 3-year exclusive supply agreement with Vendor Y at 12% below spot.

SupportSupportLean opposeNeutralSupportOpposeSupport

Verdict

Split

Opposition Rate

29%

Formal red flags

"Governance Lens: dependence on a single supplier could create accountability and continuity exposure."

Outcome logged 91 days later, renegotiated to 18 months with exit trigger. This card is an illustrative specimen, not a client decision.

Questions, answered

Everything you need to decide whether to try it.

What is The Voussoir, in one sentence?

AI decision review: you describe a consequential decision and seven independent perspectives challenge it, state the strongest case for proceeding, and show what would change the answer, while you stay the decision-maker.

How long does it take, and what do I get?

Usually a few minutes. You receive a written briefing with a verdict, each seat's stance and confidence, material risks, any formal red flags, the cost of inaction, and conditions that would reverse the verdict.

Is this legal, financial or professional advice?

No. It is decision support. The seats are independent AI perspectives, not licensed professionals, and the decision remains yours.

Does it replace consultants, lawyers or a board portal?

No. A consultancy brings research and implementation. A board portal distributes papers and records votes. The Voussoir challenges the decision before you commit, and works in front of either.

Who can see my decisions?

Only you, plus anyone you choose to share a briefing with or invite to your organisation. Published Casebook cases are anonymised and only with consent.

What does it cost to try?

Nothing. The free plan runs the full seven-seat Council on your own decision, a few times a month, with no card.

Challenge a decision, free Read the guide

Access

Start with one decision. Scale to the boardroom.

The full seven-seat Council is free to try. When decisions need to move through a board, committee or institution, the same Council sits inside a governed workflow.

Individuals and teams

Self-serve plans

Free to start, with no card. Paid plans add scenario comparison, specialist councils, the Boardroom and the permanent Decision Ledger.

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Boards, committees and institutions

Institutional access

Run one live decision through the Council, the Decision Room and a board pack. Sales-assisted and scoped to your organisation.

Request an institutional pilot

Your next big decision deserves more than one point of view.

Convene your first Council

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Challenge the decision before you commit.Seven independent seats. One honest verdict.