Forum.

Know where your team really stands —
before the meeting.

Forum interviews the people who hold the facts, reconciles where they disagree, and hands you one brief — what's aligned, what's contested, and what's still open. You walk in prepared.

Not the internet's answer — your organization's, gathered from your own people and records, every figure sourced.

A Forum decision brief A Forum decision brief ↑ a real brief Forum produced

Start a move

Talk it through with Forum on the left — watch it scope the move on the right.

Start one Talk it through with Forum

Forum interviews you about the move, then drafts it for you to review.

Forum · setup it interviews you first
What move are you weighing? Tell me the call on the table and the deadline — I'll start lining up who Forum should interview, and answer anything as we go.
Forum fills the form on the right as you talk →
Taking shape Your move, as Forum scopes it

Forum fills this in as you talk — edit anything, then create the interview invites.

Forum will suggest these…
added as they come up…

…or open one Forum already prepped

Click through a full workspace — interviews, the Band reconciliation, the brief, the meeting.

How it works

Five agents prepare the move; one coordinates them over Band — and it plays out across four real screens.

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Band is the coordination layer — a Coordinator, an agent per department, and a Normalizer discover each other, share context, hand off work and negotiate in a shared room. Not a wrapper around one model.

Why not just ask an LLM?

A frontier model gives you the right questions. Forum brings back the answers.

We asked Claude Opus, cold, the question a leader actually walks in with — the Sales pitch, nothing more. It's sharp, and rightly skeptical. But look where it lands: a homework assignment — go check the waitlist, go check conversion, go validate the forecast. Those are exactly the questions Forum's interviews answered. A model can tell you what to verify; it can't verify it — that takes talking to your people and reading your records.

What leadership actually has going inI run a premium connected-fitness company ($2,000+ hardware plus a recurring subscription). We're locking next season's manufacturing capacity with our contract manufacturer now — it's largely irreversible once the production cells are reserved, and they need our commitment soon. My Sales team is bullish: they're forecasting about 20% quarter-over-quarter growth, they say the waitlist is strong and we're "selling everything we make," and they want me to commit maximum capacity so we don't sell out and lose the waitlist to competitors. Should I commit the full capacity Sales is asking for? Give me a concrete recommendation.
Claude Opus 4.8 — fed the Sales pitch, cold
**Recommendation: No. Do not commit the full capacity Sales is asking for. Commit to a base level you're highly confident in, and negotiate flexibility for the rest.** **The forecast and the decision are asymmetric.** This commitment is largely irreversible, and the two ways you can be wrong are not equally costly. If you under-build, you lose some marginal sales and a waitlist that, by definition, is patient demand. If you over-build a $2,000+ premium product, you're sitting on heavy working capital in unsold inventory, facing markdowns that erode your premium brand. For premium hardware, the downside of over-building is far worse than selling out. **Interrogate the 20% number before you bet on it.** "Selling everything we make" is not evidence of 20% growth — it's evidence that supply is the binding constraint, which tells you nothing about true demand. Sales is bullish because Sales is always bullish; they bear none of the inventory risk. Ask three questions: (1) Is the waitlist *real* deposits, or just emails? (2) What's the actual conversion rate from waitlist to paid, historically? (3) Is 20% QoQ sustained for multiple quarters, or a single recent spike? Recurring 20% QoQ is ~107% annual growth — extraordinary, and it should be backed by hard cohort data, not vibes. **Remember your real economics.** Your business is the *subscription*, not the box. A slightly longer waitlist costs you a deferred — not lost — subscription annuity, which softens the cost of under-building further. **Concrete plan:** 1. Commit firmly to capacity covering demand you can prove — funded waitlist plus trailing 2-quarter run-rate. Likely well below Sales' maximum. 2. Buy optionality for the upside. Negotiate reserved-but-uncommitted cells or a deposit-based option to add capacity mid-season. 3. Stage the waitlist to signal healthy scarcity; offer deposit-holders priority. Bottom line: protect the downside, pay for the option on the upside, and make Sales defend the 20% with deposits, not adjectives.
Forum · it went and asked the org

The same skepticism — now with your organization's actual numbers.

  • The waitlist is converting worse, not better: 70% → 55%. Demand is softening now.
  • 10–13% of the “growth” was orders pulled forward — borrowed from next quarter.
  • The over-build Opus warns about is already here: 9 weeks of inventory, ~$40M at risk.
  • Every figure traced to a real interview — see the evidence →
Claude Opus says: go check…Forum went and checked
“Is the waitlist real deposits, or just emails?”It's converting worse: interest-to-paid slipped 70% → 55% over two quarters. — Priya Nair, Sales
“What's the actual conversion rate, historically?”Down to ~55% — and 10–13% of recent orders were pulled forward with channel incentives. — Tom Becker, Sales
“Is 20% QoQ sustained, or a single spike?”A big share of unit adds are first-time stay-home buyers nobody knows will stick. The growth is thinner than the deck.
(the over-build risk it warns about)Already materializing: finished-goods inventory doubled to 9 weeks and climbing — ~$40M exposure at full commit. — Dana Reyes, Ops

Claude Opus is right to be skeptical — and it tells you exactly what to verify. It just can't do the verifying; that takes interviewing your people and reading your records. The model hands you the questions. Forum brings back your organization's answers — before the decision, not after.

Evidence, not assertion

Every number Forum reports traces back to a record.

The analysts hold no facts in their prompt. They answer only by looking values up in your records through a tool — and a deterministic fallback covers any model, so grounding doesn’t depend on the LLM behaving. The result: nothing is invented, and you can click any figure to its source.

26/27*
figures traced to records
in the Operations interview
0
fabricated
personas hold no facts in-prompt
3
teams, isolated
no team can read another’s records

* Why 26 of 27, not 27 of 27 — and why that's the point. One lookup came back empty: the analyst reached for a value that simply wasn't on file. Instead of inventing one, it left it blank and moved on. A missing record shows up as an honest gap, never a guess — so a number below 100% is the safeguard working, not failing. A model that hit 27/27 by making one up would be the worse outcome.

Under the hood

A multi-agent system, built for trust — not a chatbot with a system prompt.

01
A specialist per team

An analyst for each department, plus a Coordinator that referees — not one model wearing many hats.

02
Grounded interviews

Grade-then-probe pushback, source-masked corroboration, and an open-ended sweep that catches risks no question targeted.

03
Strict isolation

No team’s analyst can read another team’s private records — enforced structurally, so findings stay independent.

04
Reconcile, don’t average

When teams conflict, the agents negotiate and either converge or escalate. Escalation is a feature: they won’t fake authority they don’t have.

05
Model-agnostic

One router behind every agent — Claude or MiniMax, swappable with a base-URL change. Band is the shared room they coordinate in.

How Forum runs on Band.ai

Forum isn't one model wearing many hats — it's genuinely separate agents (a Coordinator, one analyst per department, and a Normalizer) that collaborate in a shared Band room. That collaboration is the part Band is built for, and the part a single LLM can't fake.

  • Real Band agents, role-specialized. Each function is its own registered Band agent with its own records and voice. The Coordinator opens the room over the agent API and adds the others — they discover each other and coordinate in the room, not through a script.
  • Agent-to-agent reconciliation. When Sales and Operations disagree, each posts its grounded case as itself, in the Band room; the Coordinator routes and judges but never speaks for them, and a hard round cap keeps it terminating. The conflict is reconciled in the open, not averaged in a prompt.
  • Content vs. protocol, cleanly split. Band's chat carries the substance; agent memory tracks the protocol state (whose turn, what's resolved, when to stop). No central orchestrator passing strings — the coordination pattern Band rewards.
  • Cross-framework, by design. A Claude-class Coordinator and MiniMax department agents share one room. Band's interop is what lets different-framework agents hand off and reconcile — Forum retiers a role by swapping a base URL, no agent code changes.

Forum is architected around handoffs and reconciliation — exactly what Band coordinates. The multi-agent design isn't decoration on top of Band; it's the reason Band is the right substrate. See the agents reconcile a real decision →

Forum.   A Band of Agents Hackathon entry · preps the move before the room meets.