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One product. One price. One survivor.

Bring the idea.
We brought the operators.

Twelve verified human operators, distilled into AI twins with depth, taste and scars. You don't build the agents. You don't write the prompts. You just walk in with what's keeping you up — and walk out with a Survivor Pack.

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Free Sample

Pick one operator. Get a taste.

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  • ·Pick 1 of 3 archetypes — Skeptic, Customer, Optimist
  • ·5 messages, mild-to-medium heat
  • ·Public Heat Check card to share
  • ·No Survivor Pack, no verified humans
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The Roast

One idea. The full council. One Survivor Pack.

$99one-shot
Start a Roast →
  • ·All 12 verified human operator twins
  • ·Unlimited depth in one 24-hour session
  • ·Heat from Mild to Nuclear 🌶️
  • ·Full Survivor Pack — all 6 artifacts including 🎯 The Verdict
  • ·Private permalink, share what you want
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Sparring Partner

Operators on retainer. Roast as often as you think.

$99/month
Get a partner →
  • ·Everything in The Roast
  • ·Unlimited roasts, every month
  • ·Survivor Pack compounds across sessions
  • ·📖 Decision Journal — exclusive 6th artifact, learns your calibration
  • ·Cancel anytime, keep your artifacts
  • ·Abuse-flagged automatically (scripted hammering, content farming)

Same anchor price. The one-shot is a single decision. The sparring partner is on retainer.

Every roast ends with these four objects

The Survivor Pack

Six sharp deliverables you'll actually use the next morning. Built on Munger's latticework and Buffett's circle of competence — not yet another to-do list.

Survivor Pack · sample
🎯 The Verdict
Result of The Crucible — your load-bearing claims, tested.
Idea: "Subscription tier for indie devs"
Circle Score · indie dev SaaS
4 / 12
Operating mostly outside your circle on the load-bearing claims.
🟢Solid3
🟡Hand-wavy2
🔴Bluffed4
⚫Honest IDK3
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The Customer asks
Name 3 indie-dev communities that ban self-promo. How will you reach them?
"Uh, Reddit?"
Bluffed — no specifics, can't name the constraint.
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The Economist asks
Stripe's effective fee on a $99 sub charged to a card in Brazil — roughly?
"Honestly, I don't know. I'd need to check."
Honest unknown — Munger gold star. No penalty.
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The Lawyer asks
If a US customer chargebacks after 28 days, who eats the cost — you or Stripe?
"Me. Standard chargeback window is 120 days; Stripe takes a $15 dispute fee on top."
Solid — specific numbers, knows the policy.
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The Skeptic asks
Median MRR of an indie dev shipping to consumers — and your source?
"Around $2-5k? I read it somewhere on Indie Hackers."
Hand-wavy — directional but no source, no defense.
Verdict — close the circle before you raise
  • · Spend a week mapping indie-dev distribution channels (talk to 3 founders who already sell to them)
  • · Build a one-page Stripe fee model across your top 5 expected geos
  • · Get one number — median indie SaaS MRR — with a defensible source
Each artifact is private by default. Click "share" on any one and it gets its own permalink and cover card — the Heat Check teaser stays public.
Mid-roast checkpoint · mandatory

The Crucible

The hardest part of being roasted: finding out you don't know what you don't know. The council picks your load-bearing claims and grills you on the domain. Five minutes. Real operator questions only an insider could answer crisply.

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Council picks the load-bearing claims
From your pitch — the 4-6 things that, if wrong, sink the idea.
2
Each operator drafts insider questions
Not 'what's your TAM?' — 'Stripe's effective fee on a $99 sub from Brazil — what is it, roughly?'
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You answer in voice (text or 60s audio)
Time pressure is part of it. Bluffing is detected.
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🟢 Solid · 🟡 Hand-wavy · 🔴 Bluff · ⚫ Honest IDK
'I don't know' is rewarded, not penalized. Munger called it the most valuable answer in business.
Walk-through · sample

A real Survivor Pack, in deck form.

One fictional idea — Stipend: $99/mo subscription tier for indie devs to outsource their accounting. Eight slides, six artifacts, one verdict.

THE ROAST · Survivor Pack · Stipend
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The Survivor Pack
Stipend
$99/mo subscription tier for indie devs to outsource their accounting.
Roasted by
12 verified operators
Founder
S. Vance
Date
May 3, 2026
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One-shot
Survivor Pack from one session

Six artifacts, locked in. A clean snapshot of one decision, fully extracted.

Sparring Partner · adds 📖 The Decision Journal
The pack compounds — and starts keeping score

The X-Ray learns your recurring blindspots. The Hit List becomes a rolling backlog. The Inversion catalogues your near-misses. And the Decision Journal logs every call you made, the reasoning, and a 90-day check-in — so you find out which operators were actually right about you.

Quick answers

What counts as one roast?

One idea, one 24-hour window, unlimited back-and-forth with the full council. You leave with one Survivor Pack.

What if I roast too much on the monthly plan?

It's unlimited. We monitor for clear abuse patterns (scripted hammering, content farming) and flag those accounts — real users will never hit a wall.

Do I keep the artifacts forever?

Yes. Every Survivor Pack lives on your account permanently, even if you cancel.

Why not just build my own AI agent?

You could. But assembling twelve operators with real depth, distinct taste and a charter against bullshit is a project. We did it. You bring the idea.