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Council of Experts: Get Three Quick Views on Your Plan

Test the pitch. Hear the objections. Then sell.

A council of experts prompt makes an AI answer as several specialists in turn. This version seats three to test how you’ll sell a new offer to existing clients.

The experts are simulated roles the AI plays. They are not real people, and none has reviewed your plan.

About This Prompt

Author

Adam Bloom

AI Technique

Role Prompting

Level

Simple

Best For

Business owners · Selling a new offer

Last Updated

2026-11-10

Last Reviewed

2026-11-10

Council of Experts Prompt Template

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What to Fill In

• [NEW OFFER]: the service or package you want to sell, in a few words.
• [MY PLAN]: who you’ll approach, what you’ll say, and how you’ll price it.

Example: A Council on Selling a New Offer

Illustrative example, not a client result

Input: New offer: a quarterly strategy review. Plan: email my 40 best clients, offer it at $3,000 a quarter, and book calls in the first two weeks.

Prompt as sent:

Output (shortened):

• Skeptic: Clients bought your core service, not this one. Ask two of them first whether they’d pay for it.
• Numbers Person: Forty emails may give you a handful of calls. Work out how many sales cover your time.
• Customer: Tell me what I get that I don’t already get from you. And don’t send me a form letter.
• Where they disagree: The Skeptic wants proof of demand first. The Numbers Person wants the sums first. The Customer wants a personal message first.

Flag: “Existing clients will pay $3,000 a quarter” has no support. Check it before you decide.

Why the Council Works

Three roles pull your sales plan in three directions. The Skeptic doubts demand, the Numbers Person checks the math, and the Customer reacts as a buyer would. Where they disagree is where the useful questions are.

When the Council Doesn’t Work

• Roles change viewpoint and format, not facts. Check any claim before you act.
• One AI plays all three voices, so it can agree with itself. The Customer is a guess, not a real buyer. Ask a real client.
• Role-play prompts can distract a model. In one study they hurt reasoning on 7 of 12 datasets with Llama 3 (Kim et al., 2024).

Research Behind This Prompt

• Liang et al. (2023), Encouraging Divergent Thinking in Large Language Models through Multi-Agent Debate. Supports. A model that reflects on its own answer tends to stay with its first answer, even when it is wrong. Several agents arguing, with a judge, worked better on commonsense machine translation and counter-intuitive arithmetic.
• Kim et al. (2024), Persona is a Double-edged Sword: Mitigating the Negative Impact of Role-playing Prompts in Zero-shot Reasoning Tasks. Challenges. Role-play prompts sometimes distracted the model. With Llama 3, they hurt reasoning on 7 of 12 datasets.
• Liu et al. (2024), PersonaFlow: Designing LLM-Simulated Expert Perspectives for Enhanced Research Ideation. Supports. In user studies, simulated domain experts raised the perceived relevance and creativity of research directions. This was a research-ideation tool, not plan review.

What the Evidence Says

Mixed. Debate and simulated experts helped in some studies. In another, role-play prompts hurt reasoning on 7 of 12 datasets with Llama 3. Use the council for objections, then check the facts yourself.

Sources last checked 2026-11-10.

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