Creating a Session
A session begins with your goal. From there, Hubrix designs the board for you (in Scratch mode) or lets you structure it yourself (in Manual mode).
Write a clear goal
In the goal field, describe the decision or plan you want the board to examine. A good goal is specific and states the stakes — for example:
"Decide whether to migrate our billing from monthly invoices to usage-based pricing in Q4, given a 4-person team and 600 existing customers."
You can add optional context — background, constraints, links, or anything the board should know. The more grounded the goal and context, the sharper the board's critique.
Scratch vs Manual mode
When you create a session you choose a mode:
| Mode | Best for |
|---|---|
| Scratch (default) | Let Hubrix design the agent panel from your goal and run it. This is the usual way to start. |
| Manual | Structure the work yourself — lay out phases, branches and tasks — and have the board critique your plan rather than design it from scratch. |
Both modes support the same downstream features: checkpoints, decisions, scenarios, actions, export, and sharing.
How the board is designed
In Scratch mode, Hubrix designs a small panel of adversarial agents tuned to your goal. Every panel includes the three core perspectives, plus any domain specialists the goal calls for:
| Core role | Mindset |
|---|---|
| Strategist | Pre-mortem — "Assume this already failed. Why?" |
| Red team | Attack — "If I wanted this plan to fail, what would I do?" |
| Devil's advocate | Challenge — "Question every assumption." |
Depending on the goal, the board may also add specialists such as a financial skeptic, a legal/compliance lens, a market analyst, a technical skeptic, or an execution critic.
Each agent is assigned a mindset (pre-mortem, attack, challenge, stress-test, worst-case, or analyze) and a suitable AI model — Hubrix prefers Claude and falls back across other providers for resilience.
You don't pick the models or write the prompts — Hubrix designs the panel for you. After a run you can also spawn additional agents to dig into a specific discovery. See Reviewing results.
Presets
If you frequently run similar boards, save a session's setup as a preset and apply it to a new goal later. Manage presets from the session list. See Sharing & export.
Next
Once your session exists, run the board.
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