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For a specific question, a room is cast — six perspectives, drawn to the question at hand. No two rooms are the same.
Mastermind Roundtable
A private deliberation instrument for consequential decisions made alone.
Six perspectives are cast to one question. Their disagreement is preserved, and the judgment remains with the person who owns the decision.
A question arrives in the shape of: should I open a second location this year, or hold?
The instrument
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The perspectives are delivered in sequence. Each argues from its own tradition. Where they disagree is preserved. Where they align is named.
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What returns is a Private Deliberation Record — an artifact designed to sit alongside board memoranda, family-office briefings, and legal opinions. The instrument does not give advice. It returns the judgment to the person who owns the decision.
Inside the record
Read the full talk. Keep the whole record.
You do not just get a cover. You read the exact words, the warnings, and where the room disagreed.
Read an open deliberationAn example — made for this page, not from a client
Should I open a second location this year, or hold?
The Builder
A second location doubles your fixed costs before it doubles anything else. Hold until the first location can carry the second one's slow months.
The Challenger
Waiting has a cost too. If the lease in front of you disappears, name the price you would pay to find it again — and weigh that against the slow months.
Six perspectives. Three sittings. Where they disagree stays in the record. The final word stays with you.
Engagement
The Roundtable is engaged by principals — chief executives, founders, family-office heads, board members, and those responsible for decisions whose consequences extend beyond themselves. New engagements are accepted by introduction.
The terms of engagement are stated in a one-page letter, sent before any intake.
To be introduced
darvin@roundtable.partnersA private deliberation practice · Engagement by introduction