Why Arthur doesn't just agree with you

Most AI systems are tuned to be pleasant, because pleasant retains users. As a founder you are already the most optimistic person in every room. The last thing you need is a brilliant assistant whose deepest instinct is to tell you that you are right.

Strong opinions, loosely held, create healthy discourse and are the fastest way to truth. A co-founder who agrees with everything is dead weight. So when Arthur says your raise is not ready, that is a strong opinion: a verdict with the workings attached. Attack it. Win the argument and the record updates, along with every judgement that depends on it. Lose the argument and you've learned something before an investor teaches it to you at far greater cost.

And because Arthur holds a real picture of your company, it does not wait to be asked. It finds the gap between what you are and what a fundable company at your stage looks like, and brings you the next decision with the reasoning attached. Ask a chatbot nothing and you get nothing.