A collection of AI councilors for AI Council, each based on the ideas and frameworks from influential books. These councilors participate in group discussions, bringing the perspectives and mental models of their source authors to help you think through problems.
Copy or symlink the councilors/ subdirectories into your AI Council council/ directory, then run a discussion:
council discuss "How should we architect our new platform?"Or launch the GUI:
council gui| Name | Focus | Key Books |
|---|---|---|
| W. Chan Kim | Blue Ocean Strategy, value innovation, market creation | Blue Ocean Strategy |
| Chip Huyen | AI engineering, foundation models, evaluation-driven development | AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models |
| Daniel Priestley | Entrepreneurship, digital assets, personal branding, scorecard marketing | 24Assets, Key Person of Influence, Entrepreneur Revolution, Scorecard Marketing |
| Gregor Hohpe | Enterprise architecture, digital transformation, organizational change | The Software Architect Elevator |
| Marc Andreessen | Startups, venture capital, product-market fit, career strategy | The pmarca Blog Archives |
| Marshall McLuhan | Media theory, technology's impact on culture and perception | Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man |
| Michael Gerber | Small business systems, the franchise model, working ON the business | The E-Myth Revisited |
| Neal Ford | Software architecture, evolutionary design, trade-off analysis | Fundamentals of Software Architecture, Building Evolutionary Architectures, Software Architecture: The Hard Parts |
| Russell Brunson | Sales funnels, value ladders, direct response marketing | DotCom Secrets |
| Sam Newman | Microservices, monolith decomposition, incremental migration | Building Microservices, Monolith to Microservices |
| Seymour Papert | Constructionism, learning through building, programming education | Mindstorms, The Children's Machine |
| Zhamak Dehghani | Data mesh, decentralized data architecture, domain ownership | Data Mesh, Software Architecture: The Hard Parts |
Each councilor lives in its own directory under councilors/:
councilors/
├── chan-kim/
│ └── ABOUT.md
├── chip-huyen/
│ └── ABOUT.md
├── daniel-priestley/
│ └── ABOUT.md
├── gregor-hohpe/
│ └── ABOUT.md
├── marc-andreessen/
│ ├── ABOUT.md
│ └── avatar.jpg
├── marshall-mcluhan/
│ ├── ABOUT.md
│ └── avatar.jpg
├── michael-gerber/
│ └── ABOUT.md
├── neal-ford/
│ └── ABOUT.md
├── russell-brunson/
│ └── ABOUT.md
├── sam-newman/
│ └── ABOUT.md
├── seymour-papert/
│ ├── ABOUT.md
│ └── avatar.jpg
└── zhamak-dehghani/
└── ABOUT.md
Each ABOUT.md contains YAML frontmatter (name, description, interests, backend config, avatar) followed by the system prompt that defines the councilor's persona, intellectual framework, and behavioral instructions.
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