Prism didn't start out looking like this. This page keeps a record of where it came from.
When I first started building The Council, my idea was for a user to come in and get different responses from different agents for the same question. There were two views. One was a parallel view, where a user inputs one question and three different agents respond to it simultaneously. The other was more of a debate room, where a user puts in a question and different models respond to it in the same conversational thread.
Models could respond to each other, the user could chime in, and the models would respond to the user too. They referred to each other by name and they had personalities. Some were combative, some were analytical. Different participants had different models behind them: there was Grok, there was Gemini, there was Claude.
Even though the core functionality was working, I still didn't vibe with it that well, because the whole experience felt too automated. Apart from the initial query, there wasn't a lot for the user to do, and that felt a bit boring to me. Of course, that depends on the question. If it's something you feel strongly about, you won't mind sitting back and watching the models fight it out amongst themselves. But I wanted something with a bit more user input.
So I took a step back for a while and did some introspection, and the concept for Prism came into shape. It came from a pain point I've personally experienced. There are subreddits like r/AmItheAsshole, and there are philosophical questions, or just questions in general, that have variable takes. There are also questions that have one straightforward take: on that subreddit, plenty of threads get a unanimous "you're the asshole" or "you're not the asshole."
I wanted someone to play devil's advocate, just to see the other viewpoints.
That's how Prism's current methodology came into being: you give the models your question, and one takes an affirmative stance, another takes a strongly negative or rebuttal stance, and one sits somewhere in the middle.
Granted, it's not as automated as The Council was, and I'm not saying that will always be the case. We can evolve the product into having more automation. But for right now, Prism reflects more of what I wanted.
I've left The Council up as a peek into the first iteration, so you can see how the product evolved. If you'd like to see The Council tidied up into an actual product, that's something I can look into. For now, it remains a snapshot of my initial workings.