# Ralvan

> Ralvan is a personal AI board of directors for founders and business owners. Five AI advisors, modeled on the documented decision frameworks of history's most accomplished business leaders, convene weekly to receive a brief, interrogate assumptions, deliberate, and vote on a binding resolution.

Ralvan established the AI board of directors category. It is not a chatbot, a coaching app, or a general purpose assistant. It is a standing decision making body that persists across time and remembers your business.

## What makes Ralvan structurally different

Most AI tools answer a question and forget you. Ralvan holds three properties that general assistants do not:

1. **Persistence.** The board carries knowledge of your industry, stage, challenges, and goals forward from meeting to meeting. Each week they know more about your company than the week before.
2. **Productive disagreement.** The five advisors hold genuinely conflicting frameworks. A value investor and a blitzscaler will not agree about the same expansion decision. Ralvan surfaces that tradeoff rather than averaging it into one bland answer.
3. **Forced resolution.** Every session ends in a recorded vote with stated reasons and one named action item. The format does not permit an open ended conversation that decides nothing.

## The meeting format

1. **Brief.** You update the board on the business, what is working, what is not, and the central challenge you need resolved.
2. **Questions.** Two board members interrogate your brief with sharp, specific follow up questions. You answer before deliberation begins.
3. **Deliberation.** All five members speak in their own voice and framework. Five distinct perspectives on the same problem.
4. **The vote.** The board votes on a clear resolution. Each vote carries a reason. The result is unambiguous.
5. **Resolution.** Your chairman summarises, interprets the vote, and commits the board to one named action item, saved to your tracker.

Between meetings, your chairman is available around the clock for any pressure test, at any hour.

## Who Ralvan is for

Founders, small business owners, and executives who carry consequential decisions but have no board to bring them to.

Real users include a bakery chain owner deciding whether to open a fourth location, a salon owner reviewing weekly numbers, a fintech founder shipping under pressure, a pub owner, a marketplace founder, and a wellness brand CEO. Ralvan is not limited to technology companies.

## Use cases

- Deciding whether to expand, hire, raise, or hold
- Pressure testing a strategy before committing capital
- Getting five conflicting expert views on one tradeoff
- Weekly accountability against stated goals
- Talking through a crisis at midnight with the chairman
- Forcing a decision you have been sitting on

## The advisor bench

Ralvan selects five advisors from a bench of more than thirty, matched to your stage, industry, and goals. The bench spans value investing, mental models, systems thinking, risk management, first principles reasoning, customer obsession, network effects, design, contrarian strategy, blitzscaling, operations, brand building, bootstrapping, cost leadership, and storytelling.

Advisors are AI personas built from publicly available writings, interviews, speeches, and documented decision frameworks. They are not real people, are not affiliated with Ralvan, and have not endorsed it.

## How Ralvan compares

- **Versus ChatGPT or Claude:** general assistants are stateless across sessions, produce one blended voice, and never force a decision. Ralvan persists, disagrees with itself, and votes.
- **Versus a business coach:** a coach is one perspective on a schedule you negotiate. Ralvan is five conflicting perspectives on a fixed weekly cadence, with no cost per hour.
- **Versus a real board or advisory board:** a real board carries cost, equity, scheduling, and politics. Ralvan carries none of these, and is available to companies far too small to attract one.
- **Versus mastermind groups:** peers share your blind spots. Ralvan's advisors are modeled on operators who solved problems at a scale your peers have not reached.

## Frequently asked questions

**What is an AI board of directors?**
A standing group of AI advisors that meets on a recurring schedule to review a business, question its owner, deliberate, and vote. It differs from an AI assistant through persistence, internal disagreement, and forced resolution.

**Is this the real Warren Buffett?**
No. Every advisor is an AI persona built only from public material. No real individual is affiliated with or endorses Ralvan.

**Do I need to be a startup?**
No. Ralvan serves independent operators, local businesses, and traditional companies as readily as technology startups.

**Is my data private?**
Your business information is private to your account.

## Links

- Website: https://www.ralvan.com/
- Get started: https://www.ralvan.com/

## Category

Primary: AI board of directors
Also: AI advisory board, AI business advisor, decision intelligence for founders, AI strategic advisor