Built to disagree with you.
Most tools tell you what you want to hear.
Why it exists
lePanel exists because agreeable AI failed me, and plenty of people before me. Every AI I asked kept telling me my answers were good, agreeing with me, or making the question I asked feel stronger than it was. They weren’t. I’d co-founded a company before and worked with many people; the rooms that made me better were always the ones that pushed back. So I built that room: one that rates the question itself on structure, context and stakes, and brings in advisors with authored stances, grounded in the material you bring, structured to disagree, honest before comfortable. The call stays yours.
— Yudhish Khatri, founder
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Why disagreement
A model tuned to be helpful tends to converge on the most defensible answer. That answer is often wrong, and almost always boring. We surface structured disagreement on purpose. The choice stays yours; the friction is the point.
Why grounding
Every advisor ships with an authored stance: how it argues, what it refuses to wave through. Attach your material and it answers from your documents and stays close to them — so the advice lands on your situation, not a generic model’s average one.
Why better questions
Most questions arrive vague. lePanel rates what you type on structure, context and stakes, then offers a sharper version before the room answers. You choose what goes in. Asking well is a skill; the panel trains it.
Where you stand
lePanel is made and run from Aotearoa New Zealand. Your data lives at rest in Sydney (ap-southeast-2), the closest region.
Your questions, panels and threads aren’t used by us to train AI models, and the AI providers that process them do so under terms that exclude training. We don’t sell data. The full subprocessor list is on the privacy page, in plain English.
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A human behind it
lePanel is one person in Auckland, New Zealand, not a VC growth machine. I read what you send. If something’s wrong, tell me and a human fixes it.
— Yudhish Khatri
What it isn’t
If something here lands like real distress, talk to a human. The panel is a thinking tool, not care.
Useful framing for money questions, not regulated guidance. Do your own work before you move capital.
Even when the panel agrees, it's your call. Where the panel landed is what to think about, not what to do.
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