Introduction

A few weeks ago, my team and I were stuck. We’re building a waste management startup here in Ghana, and we’d spent weeks circling the same handful of ideas including but not limited to gamified recycling rewards, route optimization for collectors; and all without converging on anything. I disagreed with most of what was on the table because of the harsh reality of the Ghanaian market, but couldn’t get the team to see it. We weren’t short on enthusiasm, but on a way to actually test our own thinking before spending another month building the wrong thing.

This is a common failure for founders and engineers: someone opens ChatGPT, asks “is this a good idea?”, and immediately gets back three paragraphs of validation. This is as a result of how single LLMs are trained to respond. To give you exactly what you want to hear.…