Roundtable markCrucible
PricingModels
Workforce planningA 4.5% wage decision, stress-tested by 12 experts at 85% confidence.Go-to-marketOur own launch decision, sequenced by 11 experts at 86% confidence.
Blog
Get started ›
Roundtable mark
Crucible

by Roundtable Labs

Contact us at hello@roundtablelabs.ai

Product

PricingPreTreatment

Resources

BlogStatus

Legal

Privacy PolicyTerms of ServiceCookie PolicySubprocessorsAcceptable UseSecurity

© 2026 Roundtable Labs Pty Ltd. All rights reserved.

Decision intelligence

No yes-men. Just experts who challenge your thinking.

Bring a high-stakes decision. Crucible convenes a panel of AI experts, each a distinct perspective, to debate it from every angle, then hands you a clear recommendation you can defend.

Run your first debate
Breadth01

A room, not a chatbot

Your decision goes to a panel of AI experts, each a distinct perspective, so you see every angle instead of one opinion.

Rigor02

Experts who push back

Perspectives debate and challenge each other, so weak ideas get stress-tested, not rubber-stamped.

Curated03

Matched to your decision

We assemble the perspectives that fit your question, across strategy, finance, legal, and operations.

Evidence04

An answer you can defend

Every recommendation comes with the reasoning, the sources, and where the perspectives disagreed.

How it works

How does Crucible work?

We don't take the first answer an AI gives. Crucible brings multiple experts, each a distinct perspective, to debate your question, then hands you a recommendation you can defend.

  1. Frame your question

    You describe the decision; Crucible assembles the perspectives that fit it, so every side is argued by the right expert.

  2. Independent research

    Each perspective investigates on its own and cites real sources first. The argument starts from evidence, not opinion.

  3. Opening positions

    Each perspective lays out its case and its claims, so the lines of disagreement are clear before cross-examination begins.

  4. The debate

    Perspectives challenge each other's evidence, spot contradictions, and refine their points. Weak ideas get filtered out, not waved through.

  5. Red-team and converge

    We hunt the last holes in the argument, then bring the views together, noting where the perspectives agree and how certain the conclusion is.

  6. Your defensible brief

    A clear, board-ready brief: the recommendation, the sources, the risks, and where the perspectives disagreed.

CRUCIBLE · Executive Brief2026.1.8

Coordinator Wage Uplift Decision

85%Confidence

Bottom Line

Approve a targeted 4.5% wage increase within 30 days, tied to measurable cuts in agency spend and strict cost-neutrality safeguards.

Critical Risks

  • Cost-neutrality failureHigh impactHigh prob
  • Wage drift & equity claimsHigh impactMed prob
  • Vacancies don't improve enoughHigh impactMed prob
+ Risk matrix · 30-day plan · sources
Simple pricing

Pick where you start.

Every plan runs the same Crucible engine. Start free, then upgrade when your decisions start building on each other.

Compare all plans
Free

Free

1 debate / month · 3 perspectives

  • 1 debate per month
  • Exactly 3 perspectives
  • Decision Log with outcome summaries
  • Re-use documents & continue from your last debate
Start free
Starter

$19/ month

3 debates / month · 5–7 perspectives

  • 3 debates per month
  • 5–7 perspectives per debate
  • Memory Search across docs & past briefs
  • Continue from any past debate + shareable link
  • Connect debates to your AI tools (Claude, Cursor)
Choose Starter
Most popular
Pro

$45/ month

5 debates / month · 10–12 perspectives

  • 5 debates per month
  • 10–12 perspectives per debate
  • Everything in Starter, plus Persistent memory
  • Cross-session synthesis & contradiction alerts
  • Priority support
Choose Pro

All prices in USD. Cancel or change plans anytime.

Use Cases

See Crucible in action

Browse real executive briefs generated by the system to see the depth of research, the rigor of the debate, and the clarity of the final decision.

For founders, product & growth leaders

Go-to-Market Strategy

This one is ours. We ran Crucible's own launch through Crucible: ship the debate engine and the agent marketplace together, or sequence them? Eleven experts weighed speed to market against complexity, governance, and risk.

  • Eleven AI perspectives spanning product, engineering, finance, legal, and growth.
  • A red-team pass that challenged the framing, not just the answer.
  • A defensible call at 86% confidence, with the dissenting case on record.
Learn more

For COOs, HR Directors & CFOs

Strategic Workforce Planning

An organization is battling 98-day vacancy cycles for critical Coordinator roles. While metrics appear stable, operations rely on expensive agency staff, masking compliance risks and eroding margins. They must decide whether to approve a 4.5% wage increase funded by redirecting agency spend within a critical 30-day window.

  • Convene an AI executive roundtable spanning HR, Finance, Operations, Legal, and Risk.
  • Generate cross-functional impact analyses, financial stress tests, legal compliance checks, and red-team critiques.
  • Deliver a data-backed Decision Memo with specific guardrails for cost neutrality, internal equity monitoring, and implementation timelines.
Learn more
Watch a debate converge

From open question to defensible brief.

Each perspective is powered by a different frontier model. They research in parallel, argue, get stress-tested, and converge. Watch the confidence build.

Roundtable markCrucible
Research
Opening
Cross-examination
Red team
Convergence
Brief
Now running: Research
Confidence14%
Finance
GPT-5.5
Searching the web
Operations
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Querying the database
Legal
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Reading your documents
Risk
DeepSeek V4 Pro
Scanning filings
Strategy
Grok 4.3
Pulling citations

Every perspective investigates in parallel: searching the web, querying data, and reading your documents, citing real sources before any opinion forms.

Crucible · Executive Brief85% confidence

Bottom Line

Approve a targeted 4.5% wage increase within 30 days, tied to measurable cuts in agency spend and strict cost-neutrality safeguards.

3 critical risks flagged1 dissent recordedSources cited30-day plan
Premium Reasoning Stack

The Best of All Worlds

No single model is best at everything, and each carries its own blind spots and biases. Crucible doesn't rely on one. It convenes a panel of the strongest models from different labs and has them debate your question, so disagreements surface and weak reasoning gets caught, instead of one confident answer you have no way to check.

ModelProviderWhy we chose it
GPT-5.5OpenAIOpenAI's flagship generalist. Broad knowledge and clean, structured argument make it the well-rounded voice on the panel, the one that frames a question clearly and keeps the reasoning legible.
Claude Sonnet 4.6AnthropicAnthropic's careful long-context reasoner. It reads the full evidence dossier and holds every argument to what the sources actually support, the panel member least likely to wave a weak claim through.
Gemini 3.1 ProGoogleGoogle's research model, with native search grounding and multimodal input. It brings current, citeable evidence into the debate so positions start from facts rather than assumptions.
Grok 4.3xAIxAI's model, with live web and X search and a contrarian streak. It is the panel's challenger: it pressure-tests the popular answer and surfaces blind spots the others talk themselves into.
Mistral Medium 3.5MistralEurope's leading lab, based in France. Different training data, regulatory context, and cultural defaults than the US and Chinese models, so it reads a trade-off the way a European operator or regulator might. An independent angle nothing else on the panel covers.
DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeekDeepSeek's open-weight models use a Mixture-of-Experts design, routing each token to specialist sub-networks for strong, low-cost math and logic. It is the quantitative critic that checks the numbers and the derivations.
Qwen 3.7 MaxQwenAlibaba's test-time-scaled reasoning model: it keeps refining its own thinking across rounds and has native tools for search and code. A deliberate voice for long, multi-step questions.

Disclaimer: The explanations above reflect our internal evaluations and opinions, provided for informational purposes only. They do not represent endorsements or official performance claims from the model providers.

Learn more ->

The difference

One confident answer, or a decision you can defend?

A single chatbot hands you one opinion in one voice. Crucible debates the question and shows its work.

vs
Ask one AI

You: Should we raise prices 15% next quarter?

Yes, a 15% increase is reasonable given current inflation. Communicate the added value clearly and grandfather your existing annual customers to limit churn.
No dissenting viewNo sourcesNo confidenceNo way to check it
Run a Crucible debate

You: Should we raise prices 15% next quarter?

FinanceSalesProductCustomerLegal
CRUCIBLE · Brief80%
Phase a 9% increase over two quarters, grandfather annual plans, and hold SMB pricing flat while you prove the value story.
Dissent: Sales warns a one-step jump risks SMB churn above target.Sources: 3 pricing-elasticity studies cited.
Dissent recordedEvery claim citedConfidence scoredDefensible
The evidence

Why multi-agent debate works

This isn't just our claim. From a 1785 jury theorem to recent LLM benchmarks, the research keeps reaching the same conclusion: multiple reasoners that debate and converge beat a single model's first answer.

Condorcet's Jury Theorem

Theoretical Foundation

Condorcet's Jury Theorem provides the mathematical proof that when each agent has better than random chance of being correct, the probability that the majority decision is correct approaches certainty as the number of agents increases. This classical result from 1785 gives theoretical rigor to multi-agent systems.

  • If each agent has probability > 0.5 of being correct, majority vote accuracy approaches 1 as agents increase.
  • Provides mathematical foundation for why ensemble methods and multi-agent voting work.
  • Directly explains the empirical success of sampling-and-voting approaches in LLM systems.
References
  • Condorcet, Essai sur l'application de l'analyse (1785)
FAQs

Common Questions

Here are the questions we hear most from teams evaluating Crucible for critical reasoning workflows. Reach out if you need a deeper dive.

All fees and charges are non-refundable, except where required by applicable law (including consumer guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law). We do not provide refunds for completed debates, partial use, unused Debate Credits, subscription fees, change of mind, or dissatisfaction with AI-generated outputs. If a debate fails to start or complete due to a system error on our side, we will, at our discretion, re-run the affected debate or restore the session to your account. See our Terms of Service for complete details.
Crucible forces the experts to challenge each other's claims, burn away errors, and converge on defensible conclusions. You receive a brief with full citations, areas of dissent, and confidence scores. Every brief is built for scrutiny, and we still recommend a human strategist reviews it before execution.
Debate content and events are stored securely to enable history and analysis. You configure retention periods in settings, and the system automatically purges data according to your preferences. You can delete individual debates or your entire account at any time. See our privacy policy for details.
Crucible runs a panel of premium models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, and Qwen, routing each to where it is strongest. You can also assign them yourself. See the full lineup on our models page.
Debates typically complete within 45 to 60 minutes, including convergence. Each debate can host up to twelve Agents, and you can run multiple debates in parallel.
A single chatbot gives you one answer in one voice, and it's built to sound confident whether it's right or wrong. Crucible runs your question through a panel of different models that argue, challenge each other's claims, and converge, then hands you a brief with the recommendation, the dissent, and the sources. You see where the reasoning is strong and where it's shaky, instead of one confident answer you have no way to check.
How it worksPricingUse casesLive debateModelsThe differenceEvidenceFAQ
Ready to get started?

Make your next call one you can defend.

Run your first debate free. No credit card. A panel of experts and a board-ready brief in about an hour.

Start freeView pricing