Designed by Committee
Because every decision deserves seven stakeholders.
Designed by Committee began as a simple experiment: send the same prompt to multiple models, compare the responses, and pick the best one. Then I went down a rabbit hole and decided to let the models respond to each other and stage the whole thing as a business meeting.
Instead of responding independently, the models participate in a shared, multi-round discussion to provide a unified response. My original attempt used a static workflow where I directly prompted each agent in sequence, effectively scripting the meeting myself.
However, after a few runs the pattern became predictable and the tension felt too manufactured. I swapped out the static workflow with the swarm pattern where the agents decide who responds next. The flow became less orchestrated and more emergent, shaped in real time by committee members.
The result is a simulated stakeholder meeting that feels uncomfortably close to the real thing. Competing perspectives collide, alignment forms and fractures, and a go-forward plan is ultimately produced under time pressure.
If you’ve spent enough time in cross-functional meetings, you’ll recognize the archetypes, corporate lingo, and power dynamics at play.
Visit the GitHub repo to get looped into the next meeting: https://github.com/brianherrera/designed-by-committee