Stage a debate between 40 thinkers to pressure-test your idea
Bring an idea to a table of 40 thinkers from across history. They debate from their own worldviews, blind spots, and intellectual style. The friction between them surfaces angles you wouldn't get from a single perspective.
40 thinkers tagged by locale, era, domain, thinking style, and energy. Filter and combine to build the table you need.
Quick round for breadth, debate for friction, full dinner for the complete arc from positions to synthesis.
Auto-selects guests with productive friction. At least two domains, one skeptic, one builder, and direct relevance to your topic.
Filter by any dimension to build your table
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Each guest gives their take in 2-3 sentences. Fast, scannable, covers breadth.
Quick round: what would the table think about remote work?Guests respond to each other. Real intellectual friction. 2-3 exchanges between the most interesting pairings.
Get the British scientists to debate whether AI will replace programmersQuick round first, then debate the disagreements, then synthesis -- what did the table agree on, and where is the unresolved tension?
Full dinner on the future of education — use the Scottish Enlightenment tableCopy a prompt and paste it into Claude Code or any LLM
Dinner party: should I quit my job to start a company?
Get the British scientists to debate whether AI will replace programmers
Renaissance dinner party about modern social media
Add Sun Tzu and Machiavelli to debate my go-to-market strategy
Full dinner on the future of education — use the Scottish Enlightenment table
Quick round: what would the table think about universal basic income?
Other patterns
Use Dinner Party to pressure-test. Reach for Animal Magic when you need to generate or analyse, or Cognitive Flex to pause and compare notes with yourself before the AI jumps in.