What If AI Was Your Team Using a Council of Expert Personas to Sharpen Your Thinking

Todd Henderson, Principal at Boulder Associates, took the concept of "AI as teammate" literally and created a council of expert personas in ChatGPT to help him think through complex knowledge management challenges. He started with eight personas—knowledge management expert, learning and development expert, psychologist, organizational development specialist—then asked the AI who else should join. The result: 20+ personas with names and role descriptions, including "the overworked architect" who pushes back with "you've got five minutes to prove this isn't a waste of my time." While the AI can't actually debate itself, it puts on different hats to inspect ideas from multiple perspectives. Todd uses this council for blue-sky generative thinking, bringing thorough analysis across disciplines he doesn't have expertise in—accessing entry-level psychology, community building, and other frameworks that sharpen his thinking before testing ideas with real people. Listen to the full conversation with Christopher Parsons and Evan Troxel at https://www.knowledge-architecture.co... #AECknowledgemanagement #knowledgemanagement #knowledgearchitecture #TRXL #BoulderAssociates == Learn More == 🚀 Synthesis, the Intranet, LMS, and AI Search Solution for AEC: https://www.knowledge-architecture.com/ 📬 Subscribe to the "Smarter By Design" newsletter: https://www.knowledge-architecture.co... 🔔 Subscribe to our channel:    / @knowledgearchitecture   == Related Videos == Smarter By Design Podcast:    • Smarter by Design Podcast   AI-Powered Knowledge Management:    • KM 3.0 Basics: AI-Powered AEC Knowledge Ma...   Synthesis Intranet + LMS Tours:    • Synthesis in Action: AEC Intranet Tours   == Timestamps == 00:00 What if AI was literally your team 00:23 Creating a council of expert personas in ChatGPT 01:36 How AI puts on different hats to inspect ideas from multiple perspectives 03:24 Why you need the overworked architect skeptic on your council 04:20 Accessing 101-level expertise you don't have on board