Questions
Questions, answered.
Getting started
Who is it for?
Anyone facing a decision or a big moment they would rather not get wrong: a job interview, a pitch, an offer, a move, a money decision, a family decision. Many people start with a job or a pitch, but the panel works on any hard decision.
What is lePanel?
An advisory board that argues your hard decision in the open, then grills you and scores every answer.
How does a question to the panel work?
You bring one question. Several advisors each answer it from their own point of view, without seeing each other first, so you get real disagreement instead of one smoothed-over take. Then the panel says where they agree, where they split, and what is still yours to decide. In the app, one question and its answers is called a round.
How does a grill work?
It is the same panel, turned around. Tell it what you are walking into, an interview, a pitch, a board meeting or a presentation, and attach the job ad, your resume or your deck if you have them. The advisors take turns asking, up to 13 questions, and each answer is scored with the reasons. At the end you get a debrief: what went well, what kept coming up, and what to fix.
How is it different from asking ChatGPT?
A chat assistant gives you one point of view, and you write the prompt. Here several advisors answer alone, so you see where they split; then the panel can grill you and score each answer. There are no prompts to write, and your threads stay where you left them.
What happens after I sign up?
You pick Advise or Grill, type your question or the situation you are preparing for, and we choose a panel for it. Then the advisors answer, or the grill begins.
Can I try it before signing up?
Yes. The home page steps through real example questions and grills, click by click, with nothing to type and no account needed. How it works shows the real screens.
How is this different from a coach?
It is not a replacement; a great coach is irreplaceable. lePanel is for the decisions that don't justify a calendar invite: the 11pm question you are turning over alone. And it remembers. The grill adds the other half: a panel you can practice against on your own schedule, that scores your progress.
Privacy and safety
Can anyone read what I type?
No one at lePanel reads your panels. We see only what you send us in feedback or support, or what the law requires. The services that write and score your answers run under zero data retention: they don’t keep your content after they reply, except where the law or abuse prevention requires it.
Will my data be used to train models?
No. Your sources, sessions, and advisors are yours. We process API calls with our model providers under terms that exclude training. Export or delete everything any time.
Do my threads stay around?
Until you archive or delete them. Search your threads, reopen any of them, and pick up follow-ups where you left them. Ask something close to an earlier question and the panel shows you that thread first, so you can reopen it or start fresh.
If you’re going through something really hard
lePanel is not a crisis service, and the advisors are not doctors, therapists or lawyers. If you’re struggling or in danger, talk to a person now. These lines are free and confidential.
- New ZealandCall or text 1737
- AustraliaLifeline 13 11 14
- UK and IrelandSamaritans 116 123
- United States and CanadaCall or text 988
- Every other countryfindahelpline.com lists free helplines near you
In an emergency, call your local emergency number: 111 in New Zealand, 000 in Australia, 999 in the UK, 112 in Ireland and the EU, 911 in the US and Canada.
The advisors
Are these real people?
No. Each advisor is a built character with a stated point of view. They answer alone, then you can have them debate.
Why not real people?
Naming real public figures as commercial advisors raises right-of-publicity and endorsement issues that we won’t shortcut. Built advisors give you the same usefulness, distinct stances, grounded reasoning, without the legal gray area. Where individual thinkers want to join lePanel as named advisors, we’ll partner with them directly and credit accordingly.
Can I add my own advisors?
Not from scratch yet. You can give any advisor your own sources, such as notes, links, files or a whole book, and they will use them when they answer you.
Can I change who’s on a panel?
Yes. Add, remove, or swap an advisor whenever you like. Nothing you already asked is lost: every round you have run stays in the thread, still answered by the advisors who answered it at the time.
What do the scores mean?
Score (in a grill): Each grill answer, from 0 to 100, with the reasons. The debrief averages them and shows how your answers scored on each axis. Agreement: How much the advisors lined up on the latest question in a thread. High means one shared read; low means they split, often the more useful answer. Question score: How clear your question was, from 0 to 100. It is separate from the answer score, and it is the one you can improve week to week. Answer score: How useful you have said the panel's answers were, from 0 to 100. Your Useful and Not useful taps make it up, so it is your rating, not ours.
Plans
What does the free plan include?
A free allowance every month, with no card needed. The pricing page shows what it includes and what the paid plans add.
Does it cost anything?
The basic plan is free for everyone, and you don't need a credit card. See the pricing page for what the paid plans add.
How do I cancel?
In Settings, any time. You keep your plan until the end of the period you paid for.
Where is lePanel available?
Anyone can sign up free. Paid plans are open in most countries, and we keep adding more as demand grows. If paid plans aren't open in yours yet, you'll see that before you pay.
Do I have to re-upload my document every time?
No. Upload a resume, a job ad, a PDF, an EPUB or a doc, or paste text, once, and it lives in your file library. Reuse it with any panel or grill; a reused file never costs a second upload. When you are done, take it out of one place, or delete it everywhere at once.
Still deciding?
Click through a real example first, or start free.