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Nate Herk demos 'Roast Room', a Claude Code setup where sub-agents modeled on business figures (Bezos, Buffett, Gary Vee, Graham, etc.) debate a business question and deliver a verdict.

## Key Takeaways

- Multi-persona sub-agents can stress-test business decisions from distinct analytical lenses.
- Each council member is just a markdown-defined sub-agent, making the system easy to customize and extend.
- Providing clear context and framing the question improves the quality of the debate and verdict.
- The visual dashboard is optional; the underlying Claude Code sub-agent orchestration does the real work.

## What the video covers

- The video showcases 'Roast Room', a council of AI sub-agents that debate a business question from different perspectives.
- Default council seats include Jeff Bezos, Paul Graham, Alex Hormozi, Gary Vaynerchuk, Dan Martell, Gino Wickman, and Warren Buffett, each with a specific focus question.
- Each council member is defined in a markdown file capturing their thinking style, principles, frameworks, books, and public statements.
- The debate runs in rounds where members challenge each other's ideas, followed by a final verdict selecting an option.
- Four extra members (Naval, Cody Sanchez, Sarah Blakeley, Leila Hormozi) bring the total to 11 seats, and users can build new ones with a 'new roaster' skill.
- The visual interface is a layer on top of Claude Code running sub-agents; it isn't required to run the system.
- Results can be exported as a PDF and shared with a team.
- The presenter demonstrates asking the system where to host a summer in-person event, weighing airports, transit, restaurants and activities.
- The video includes a sponsor segment for Fish Audio, a text-to-speech service with emotion tags, multi-speaker conversations, an MCP server, and an n8n node.
- The workflow shows how orchestrating multiple coding agents enables structured multi-perspective decision-making.

## Chapters

1. 00:00 Introduction to the Roast Room council
2. 00:36 Watching the council debate a business question
3. 04:00 How the council members are built
4. 08:00 Inside the council member markdown files and brains
5. 12:00 Sponsor segment: Fish Audio
6. 16:00 Creating new council members with a skill
7. 19:00 Running a live prompt on an event location decision
8. 23:00 Reviewing the verdict and wrap-up

Answers

## Questions about this video

Who are the default council members in Roast Room?

The default seven are Jeff Bezos, Paul Graham, Alex Hormozi, Gary Vaynerchuk, Dan Martell, Gino Wickman, and Warren Buffett. Each has a specific focus question, such as Hormozi asking whether people will pay and Wickman asking whether the business can run without the founder.

How are council members implemented?

Each council member is a markdown file defining a Claude Code sub-agent, capturing how that person thinks, their principles, frameworks, and public materials. The system adopts these personas when debating a user's question.

Do I need the visual interface to use Roast Room?

No. The visual layer is just a visualization on top of Claude Code running the sub-agents, so the debate works directly from Claude Code without the localhost interface.

## Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown

00:00

Speaker A

So right here you can see that I've got Jeff Bezos, Paul Graham, Alex Rossi, Gary Vee, Dan Martell, Gino Wickman, and Warren Buffett all discussing a business question that I had.

00:10

Speaker A

and all of these different council members will kind of come together, roast your idea, and help you think about it in a different way because each one of these seats has one specific question that they're focusing on. And

00:21

Speaker A

You basically shoot off a question with different options and all of these different council members will kind of come together, roast your idea, and help you think about it in a different way because each one of these seats has one specific question that they're focusing on.

00:30

Speaker A

everyone's deciding to pick on Gary Vee in this roast room. This is crazy. There we go. Warren Buffett goes after Herozi.

00:36

Speaker A

And now you can see what's happening is they're actually debating with each other.

00:44

Speaker A

Alex Herozy's question is, will people pay? How much? And how do we close? And Gino Wickman's question is, can the business run this without the founder holding it all together? Now, after all three of those rounds happen, we can see

00:56

Speaker A

So Jeff Bezos was debating with Gary Vee.

01:05

Speaker A

our team if we wanted to. Now, this is really just a visual layer on top of what actually goes on in Cloud Code, which is basically just running a bunch of sub aents based on these different council members that I have created. So,

01:15

Speaker A

Same thing with Paul Graham and Gary Vee.

01:22

Speaker A

And this is completely customizable, meaning you can switch out different council members and you can build other ones, too. In fact, inside of this repo that I'm going to give you guys, there already are a few other ones, too. Hey

01:31

Speaker A

Now we've got Alex Herozi going after Gary Vee too.

01:42

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comes back and says there are 11 seats. We have the default seven that you're seeing here. And then we also have Naval, Cody Sanchez, Sarah Blakeley, and Leila Hermosi. And of course, you can build as many other ones as you want. So

01:52

Speaker A

And wow, everyone's deciding to pick on Gary Vee in this roast room.

01:57

Speaker A

If you want to try it out, you can get a free month using the link in the description. But anyways, just wanted to show this off to you guys and let me break down how this actually works. So

02:04

Speaker A

This is crazy.

02:12

Speaker A

what I wanted to show you is the advisers. What are these council members? What do they actually live?

02:17

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There we go.

02:28

Speaker A

Blakeley, Buffett, Gary Vee, Graham and all the way through. And if we open one up so you can see what it is, it's literally just a markdown file that holds information about the sub aents.

02:36

Speaker A

Warren Buffett goes after Herozi.

02:47

Speaker A

different council members and it sort of adopts their personality of how they think and how they make decisions, what they, you know, and it's able to pull from things like their actual conversations, their lectures, their books, their principles, things that

02:59

Speaker A

But the point is, like I said, everyone has their own question they focus on.

03:09

Speaker A

interesting stuff here is the brain right here. So, we can see all the sub aents, but if I actually go into the skills in this repo, we can see that there is a roast room folder that has brains. And once again, there's a folder

03:23

Speaker A

So Warren Buffett's question is, what does it do to cash risk and long-term value?

03:35

Speaker A

thing that all of these other council members have as well, but they all obviously look different. The content is different. So if we open up Ila's hot, what happens is we can see her pillar is can your team and your leadership carry

03:48

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Alex Herozy's question is, will people pay? How much? And how do we close?

04:00

Speaker A

on leadership and things like that. Every person here has eight rules. They decide by frameworks, decision loops, things like that. Obviously, any books that they've written, frameworks that they talk about frequently and that they quote, their positions on certain

04:13

Speaker A

And Gino Wickman's question is, can the business run this without the founder holding it all together?

04:25

Speaker A

built the exact same way. If we open up Dan Martell, we can obviously see that he's got books in here as well. We can see that he's got frameworks that he's using all the time. You can see the

04:33

Speaker A

Now, after all three of those rounds happen, we can see that we have a final verdict, which was option C.

04:44

Speaker A

things that they actually talk about all the time. A quick break to tell you about the sponsor of today's video, Fish Audio. Now, anyone who's tried AI voiceovers knows that the words come out right, but the delivery doesn't always

04:55

Speaker A

And then we can also download a PDF, which allows us to read this, and we can sort of look at this more in depth.

05:06

Speaker A

the way that you would direct an actual voice actor, which means that you can write the direction in plain English inside the text, like slowly realizing something's wrong, and everything after that tag will follow that direction. So, one line can start calm, and it can end

05:18

Speaker A

And we could also share this with our team if we wanted to.

05:25

Speaker A

Who approved this workflow? And the tags work in other languages, too. It also generates full conversations. You can give each speaker a voice. You can mark who's talking. And every character keeps their own voice across the entire scene. Just run it one

05:39

Speaker A

Now, this is really just a visual layer on top of what actually goes on in Cloud Code, which is basically just running a bunch of sub-agents based on these different council members that I have created.

05:53

Speaker A

the model to drama 3 in the fish audio API. They also have an MCP server too, so you can connect it to cloud code or codecs. And they also have an official NAND node. So if you're building something that talks like a voice agent

06:03

Speaker A

So, you don't need this localhost open in order to run and use this, but it's just a nice visualization of what's going on.

06:13

Speaker A

Now, let's get back to it. And then I added this new skill called New Roaster, which basically just lets you build new roers. So for example, if I came in here and I was like, "Hey, new roster." and

06:24

Speaker A

And this is completely customizable, meaning you can switch out different council members and you can build other ones, too.

06:36

Speaker A

up in the actual roast room itself exactly the same way that all of these other Roast Room council members have been built out. So, you can keep scaling this thing up. And obviously, I'm going to let this thing build out Elon and

06:46

Speaker A

In fact, inside of this repo that I'm going to give you guys, there already are a few other ones, too.

06:50

Speaker A

So, while this is building out Elon, as you can see, let us do a new session.

06:54

Speaker A

Hey Claude, what are the other council members inside of our roast room?

07:02

Speaker A

in the local browser inside of the desktop app. And then we will shoot off a prompt so you guys can see how this actually works. Now, once again, you don't need this visual interface opened up. It will obviously run the sub agent

07:12

Speaker A

And so that's Glido actually shooting off a prompt right now to Claude Code, as you can see.

07:22

Speaker A

two or three options. You want to give it context so that they can actually reason through it and make a better call. Right? So let me just shoot off a quick example. We are looking at hosting another in-person event in the summer of

07:36

Speaker A

And then it'll show us who the other council members are.

07:51

Speaker A

and, you know, so airports should be important. Um, public transportation, good restaurants, good activities to do outside of just having the event, things like that. So, help me figure out where this should be and do this on the roast

08:04

Speaker A

Claude Code comes back and says there are 11 seats.

08:15

Speaker A

now and shoot that off and it should be good enough. One thing that this will do is it will help you figure out what would be the best council members to have for this specific debate. As you can see, it's going to load the skill.

08:25

Speaker A

We have the default seven that you're seeing here.

08:30

Speaker A

And then it will actually go ahead and run the debate for you. So, you can see it is going to ask me a couple questions here. It has four questions that it's asking me. And by the way, we already

08:38

Speaker A

And then we also have Naval, Cody Sanchez, Sarah Blakeley, and Leila Hermosi.

08:50

Speaker A

going to say not signed, open choice. It says, "What size and budget should the council plan around?" And I accidentally just skipped through those questions, but the last one says, "Who sits at the table?" And it gave me a recommendation.

09:00

Speaker A

And of course, you can build as many other ones as you want.

09:09

Speaker A

run. It's going to process this. Even if this was closed, like I said, we would have sub agents that would be going through and doing this no matter what.

09:16

Speaker A

So that's a new feature of Glyo where we're able to actually orchestrate different chats between different coding agents.

09:25

Speaker A

testing that agent teams was more expensive for a minimal amount of actual value ad. So doing sub aents works pretty well because they start to actually talk to each other and stuff like that either way. So it works just

09:37

Speaker A

If you want to try it out, you can get a free month using the link in the description.

09:48

Speaker A

your time? So you can see it was great that we brought in Naval for this specific type of roast room. And obviously last time you guys saw the PDF that it creates, which is pretty high level, but all of this stuff is stored

09:59

Speaker A

But anyways, just wanted to show this off to you guys and let me break down how this actually works.

10:07

Speaker A

all of the debates are held later if I want to be able to dig in and ask more questions about it. So as they're going through round one and writing their opening positions, I can just show you real quick. If I go to the files and I

10:18

Speaker A

So this is a repo called the roast room, as you guys can see.

10:30

Speaker A

creating this visual interface and we're able to actually then dig in. And so if I look at this one, we can see that there was a brief, there was a round one, round two, and a verdict. And this

10:38

Speaker A

And basically we have these seven different advisors as well as four extras, and I'm probably going to keep adding more in the mix as well.

10:46

Speaker A

And we can view it right in this interface as well. So now you can see they're starting to come through with their opening positions. And we'll see below their name what they voted for. So Gary came in with voting for A and gave

10:57

Speaker A

But what I wanted to show you is the advisers.

11:09

Speaker A

looks like Naval went for B, San Francisco. And then, like I said, we could click in and we could look at exactly why. We could see the risk. We could see what they would do. And then we can keep seeing what everyone's going

11:19

Speaker A

What are these council members?

11:30

Speaker A

agreement, which is nice. But if they did all completely agree, then the chair or sort of like Claude code, the facilitator of this debate, would make one of them argue for a different side.

11:40

Speaker A

What do they actually live?

11:52

Speaker A

to leverage the subject matter expertise of other people. And humans are really good at their domains, right? So like for example, I could not build a world-class copywriting agent. It would be tough for me because I don't have a

12:05

Speaker A

They're actually just a bunch of sub-agents.

12:17

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put them into this council. And when I have questions about copy or, you know, how to market something, I could leverage them inside of this roast room.

12:25

Speaker A

So if I go into the Claude, actually let me zoom in a little bit more.

12:36

Speaker A

proven it. Now, how can you go out there and study what they did and how they got there and basically just try to follow that path? I think it's a lot better to do that than just trusting Claude's gut

12:45

Speaker A

You can see that we have agents, and in here we have one markdown file for each of these sub-agents.

12:58

Speaker A

have thought about because Paul Graham brought up this idea or because Naval brought up that idea. And so even outside of the bounds of this roast room for example, I think that just thinking like that when you're building out other

13:09

Speaker A

So Bezos, Blakeley, Buffett, Gary Vee, Graham, and all the way through.

13:14

Speaker A

But anyways, you can see they're actually coming through now. They're deciding on final votes and you can see that we're probably going to win, you know, Salt Lake City. It's 7.9 out of 10 right now. And that is probably the

13:24

Speaker A

And if we open one up so you can see what it is, it's literally just a markdown file that holds information about the sub-agents.

13:35

Speaker A

about them being right on certain things, but also disagreed the most with Naval. So, anyways, that's how you could sort of start to read through some things in more depth. We can see that we have the PDF now, which I'll go ahead

13:44

Speaker A

So for Jeff Bezos, for example, how he thinks, what are the sources that he references, how he makes decisions, all that sort of stuff.

13:57

Speaker A

rounds if we wanted to. We could bring in other council members. And now going back to check on Elon, you can see that it created the actual portrait for him and it created these different views so that we can see what it will look like

14:08

Speaker A

So that when I actually shoot off a prompt to the roast room, it's going to go through the different council members and it sort of adopts their personality of how they think and how they make decisions, what they, you know, and it's able to pull from things like their actual conversations, their lectures, their books, their principles, things that they put out there publicly, articles, stuff like that.

14:18

Speaker A

then of course in the actual brain because it's supposed to do that through the new roster skill, we have a brain for Musk. Once again, it has hot books, frameworks positions principles sources, stories, and a voice.md. So we

14:30

Speaker A

So what you'll notice is they will all have their own agent file, which isn't really that long.

14:34

Speaker A

If you guys want to grab this GitHub repo and play around with it, then just go to my free school community. This will be linked in the description. go to the classroom and then grab it and from the AI skills or from the all YouTube

14:43

Speaker A

It's some things like how you debate, how you talk, your lens, but the really interesting stuff here is the brain right here.

14:53

Speaker A

And if you did, please give it a like. It helps me out a ton. And as always, I appreciate you guys making it to the end of the video, and I'll see you on the next one. Thanks everyone.

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