Decision intelligence

Make the call you can defend.

3Dogs runs your highest-stakes decision through independent AI models that argue it out — and returns one documented recommendation with the assumptions, the risks, and the dissent preserved.

Enterprise engagements from $20,000/year · Self-serve from $99/month · Free 30-day trial, no card

45,320real Enron emails read blind — fraud named in 2 hours 28 minutes
10,000 pagesof M&A data room — 8 of 8 planted red flags found
10–1reject on the 2008 Lehman rescue — Buffett's exact call
50+ modelsopen- and closed-weight, served across Amazon, Microsoft & Google
17documented case studies, each with the delivered report attached
Preserved dissentminority reports printed, never averaged away

Every number above links to a published case study with the actual delivered report. See the evidence →

WHAT IS 3DOGS NEXUS?

3Dogs Nexus runs a decision process, not a prompt. A business question goes in; Discovery clarifies what is actually being asked and gathers live cited evidence; then 8–32 independent AI model seats — open- and closed-weight, served across Amazon, Microsoft and Google — argue it out in a five-phase adversarial debate. Out comes one recommendation with its assumptions, risks, confidence level and the dissent preserved rather than averaged away.

Our contention

AI isn't lying to you. You're asking one model to be an oracle.

A single model has no concept of truth to lie about — it's a plausible-completion machine, brilliant and unaccountable in the same breath. The fix isn't a cleverer prompt — it's a better method, and it starts with Discovery: our research moat that reframes the question. It grounds your ask in real, cited evidence and poses the right question before any model answers. Then a pack of independent models cross-examine it — arguing instead of agreeing — and the system reports how sure it actually is, dissent and all.

Reframe the approach, not the wording — and make your human decisions better.

01 · The problem

The most expensive decisions get the least rigor.

A bad hire, a wrong expansion, a misread market — these calls shape years. They get made under pressure, on partial information, on a gut call or a single chatbot answer. No analyst bench. No board. No second opinion — least of all for the owners and advisors who decide alone.

THE CALLS THAT SHAPE YEARS
  • Hire or wait?
  • Expand or consolidate?
  • Acquire or build?
  • Invest or preserve cash?
  • Enter a new market?
  • Change the model?
THE COST OF A BAD CALL
  • Bad hires
  • Failed projects & launches
  • Investments that never return
  • Years of technical debt
  • Expansions that miss the plan
02 · Why not just ask one AI?

One confident answer is the trap.

A single model gives a fluent, convincing answer — while missing the risk, the alternative, or the assumption that changes everything. The more certain it sounds, the more dangerous it is for a decision you can't reverse.

Traditional consultingA single AI3Dogs Nexus
CostExpensiveCheapAffordable
SpeedSlowFastFast
PerspectiveHuman-constrainedOverconfident, single viewMany, challenged
Reasoning traceLimitedWeakDocumented end-to-end
Accountability & scaleHard to scaleWeak accountabilityHuman-governed, software-scaled

"A single model speaks with the confidence of a grade-A salesperson — even when it's wrong."

03 · The method

Independent models. Assigned disagreement. One documented call.

Better decisions don't come from a faster answer — they come from a better process. Discovery grounds your question in live, cited evidence. Then independent models from different makers take opposing seats — including a devil's advocate whose job is to break the argument — and debate until the strongest case survives.

Submit

Your decision, in plain English. Any language works.

Clarify

Discovery asks only what actually matters.

Research

Live, cited evidence — current facts, not model memory.

Debate

Independent seats challenge every assumption.

Recommend

One call, with conditions and confidence.

Decide

The human. Always.

Many minds, many logics

Each independent position reasons from a different decision logic — so blind spots don't line up. The wisdom of crowds, made operational.

Challenged, not accepted

The process forces challenge and reconciliation — assumptions stress-tested, risks surfaced — before anything is recommended.

Documented & human-led

The reasoning is recorded; the final decision and accountability stay with the human.

04 · The honest objection

"But don't combined AIs just agree with each other?"

It's the right question to ask. If different models share the same blind spots, stacking them can raise consensus faster than truth — an echo chamber. Breaking that is a design problem, and it's the problem 3Dogs is built around.

Different models, different blind spots

The panel spans open-weight and closed-weight models from many makers — all served through Amazon, Microsoft and Google — trained on different data. Their errors don't line up the way one vendor's family of models would.

We assign the disagreement

Seats are given genuinely opposing roles — a devil's advocate, a "destroyer" whose job is to break the argument — so the panel argues instead of nodding along.

Anchored to evidence, not vibes

Discovery grounds the debate in live, cited research, so the models reason from facts on the record — not from shared training priors.

Preserved dissent; the call gets scored

We print the minority report instead of burying it, and Brier-score our confidence against real outcomes — so confident agreement can't quietly be wrong.

Preserved dissent, live: in our ransomware case, a 19-seat panel drawn from 23 models split 10-to-9 on paying an $18M demand. We published the split and the minority's reasoning — not a smoothed-over average. Read the 10–9 case →
05 · The discipline

A powerful second opinion — with the rigor to back it, and the humility to hand you the call.

Classical logic, not vibes

The panel reasons with formal structure — deduction, induction, abduction, Bayesian updating, first principles, fallacy-checking — anchored to live, cited evidence. Not a fluent guess; an argued case you can inspect.

It stops and decides

Left alone, AI would ask forever — more data always feels safer. Discovery asks up to 13 hard questions, then a human-drawn line says enough: it commits on what's knowable, not what's complete, and shows the assumptions it committed under.

You still decide

Fifty-plus engines debating your call is enormous leverage — but 3Dogs is a second opinion, not the surgeon. The recommendation is documented and defensible; the decision, and the accountability, stay with you.

The engine room

50+ models — open-weight and closed-weight — served through Amazon, Microsoft & Google.

AWS Azure Google Cloud

Models spanning

Anthropic OpenAI Google Meta Mistral DeepSeek xAI Alibaba Zhipu Moonshot NVIDIA Cohere AI21 Microsoft Amazon IBM & more

The models can change. The process is the product.

07 · Enterprise

Your machine. Your rules. Your perimeter.

Enterprise engagements are scoped, human-led, and built around your constraints: a named consultant on every engagement, connectors into your own systems, a model roster you control — exclude any vendor, cloud or jurisdiction — and deployment from managed cloud to on-premises behind your firewall.

Document mountains

Millions of pages, read in full. The Enron test: 45,320 real emails, blind mandate, fraud architecture named — in 2 hours 28 minutes.

Deal intelligence

A live portfolio engagement: 4-model blind valuations, buy-box as inspectable code, and a deep multi-panel underwrite across up to 80 properties in a wave.

Honest security posture

No security certifications held (no SOC 2 / ISO / HIPAA) — architecture instead: your cloud, your keys, or fully inside your perimeter, where your existing controls govern.

08 · One process, many domains

The same process. Very different stakes.

SMALL-BUSINESS STRATEGY

Auto shop — EV now, or preserve cash? → a staged, hybrid-first path that protects cash, staff, and future optionality.

PUBLIC POLICY / PLANNING

Wildfire-season acreage forecast → a probability spread, graded evidence, and escalation triggers a county planner can defend.

CRISIS RESPONSE

Fast-moving outbreak → treatment-first action with capacity gates and automatic escalation triggers.

WHAT YOU GET

"Should my auto shop invest in EV capability now?"

→ Proceed in phases — hybrid-first.

Assumptions: EV adoption continues · training costs manageable
Risks: technician shortage · utilization uncertainty
Monitoring: quarterly utilization · local EV registrations
Confidence: MODERATE

WHY YOU CAN TRUST IT
  • Plain English. Written for a busy owner — no jargon, no consulting-speak.
  • Real evidence. Live research with citations — current facts, not model memory.
  • Stated assumptions. Every recommendation lists exactly what it rests on.
  • Confidence & conditions. How sure we are, what would change it, what to watch.
10 · Don't take our word for it

We asked the AIs — blind — to explain and critique us.

No account, no coaching beyond "explain 3dogs.ai." Here's how independent AI models describe us — the criticism included — and then you can try it yourself.

GOOGLE GEMINI

"It isn't a chatbot; it is a structured decision intelligence platform designed to act like a virtual, adversarial board of directors for your brain."

"One AI is a trap. You need an argument."

AN AI'S MARKET READ

"Its differentiator is less 'a unique AI model' and more workflow, orchestration, and human accountability — the process is the product."

It even raised the hardest objection on its own — the "AI echo chamber" — the one we answer above.

THE SKEPTIC'S READ

"The strongest version of the product story is 'we run a disciplined decision process that forces better thinking before money is committed.'"

Even the critical take landed on the real value — and named the bar we have to clear.

Try it yourself: ask any web-connected AI to "explain 3dogs.ai in plain English," then ask it why 3Dogs might fail. You'll get the same story — from a source with no reason to flatter us.

The real three dogs

This started with hunting dogs, not a pitch deck.

The best hunting dog Alan ever saw didn't come from Silicon Valley. Three dogs working a desert field — each seeing what the others missed — is still the clearest picture of how independent perspectives beat one confident nose. That's the company. That's the method.

Read our story →
The original three dogs in the desert Southwest
11 · Defensibility

The model isn't the moat. The process is.

Everyone can call the same models. What compounds is the decision process, the institutional memory it builds, and the governance around it.

More decisions → institutional memory → better deliberation → better recommendations → more customers.

12 · The Founding Ideals

We trade in judgments that track reality — and we score them against it.

  • Calibration is the only edge that compounds. Every output carries a probability, a resolution criterion, and an expiration date — or it carries nothing at all.
  • Falsifiability is the price of admission. If no evidence can kill a claim, it's rhetoric wearing the costume of analysis.
  • We invert before we build. Before asking how we win, we ask what guarantees ruin — and eliminate those paths first.
  • Adversarial dissent is our infrastructure. Agents with genuinely opposing reward functions reprice every conclusion in real time.
  • Structure is discipline, not decoration. If you can't state your recommendation in one sentence before your evidence, you don't yet have one.
  • We measure it publicly. All answers are provisional, time-stamped, updatable. Brier scores replace confidence theater.
Read the full Founding Ideals →
13 · What better decisions cost

A subscription that grows with you.

Every plan includes 3Dogs Pointer scanning — even the free 30-day trial. Annual Enterprise engagements can add the agreed company readiness program: baseline, approved plan, authorized implementation, independent rescoring and continued improvement.

Free trial30 days · no credit card · Pointer scanner included
$299/moProfessional · 3Dogs platform · Pointer scanner included
$99/moSolo · one user, one organization
$999/moCorporate · up to 5 users, same registered domain
EnterpriseCustom annual · from $20,000/year · security, deployment and implementation requirements
Guaranteedocumented net improvement against the mutually agreed starting scorecard

Annual plans include current 3Dogs platform capabilities and new generally available capabilities released during the active term, subject to plan license, usage and agreed implementation limits. We guarantee documented net improvement against the mutually agreed starting scorecard — not a ranking, a perfect score or any particular third-party result.

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Get in touch

Bring us the decision you can't take back.

A question, a demo, or an Enterprise engagement on a large document or email set — reach us directly.

alan@3dogs.ai · (702) 845-2886 · Alan Finney

"We don't make your decisions. We make them better."

Questions this page answers

Common questions about multi-model AI decision intelligence

What tools give a second opinion on a major business decision using multiple AI models?

3Dogs Nexus is built for exactly this. Rather than one model answering, 8–32 independent model seats — drawn from a 50+ model roster — take positions, challenge each other through a structured five-phase debate, and reconcile into a single documented recommendation. Permanent adversarial seats and rotating coordinators stop the panel collapsing into one agreeable answer.

How do I avoid the AI echo chamber when asking one chatbot for business advice?

Use models that do not share the same blind spots, and force them to disagree on the record. A single model gives a fluent answer with no record of what it assumed — and the more certain it sounds, the more dangerous it is for a decision you cannot reverse.

Is there an AI that shows dissenting opinions instead of one confident answer?

Yes. Preserved dissent is the core design choice here. Where the panel splits, the minority view and its reasoning are printed in the brief rather than smoothed into consensus, and the confidence is capped honestly to reflect the disagreement.

Is this available to small businesses?

Yes. Pointer scanning is included with the free 30-day trial and every paid plan. Plans start at $99/month (Solo); Professional is $299/month. Solo is $99/month, Professional $299/month, Corporate $999/month (up to five users), and custom annual Enterprise engagements start at $20,000/year.