QUESTIONS
Important questions deserve more than a quick answer.
A useful question is the beginning of a Decision, not the end of one.
Questions expose the Decision.
People ask which option is better, whether to launch, whether to wait, whether to build or buy, which vendor to choose, whether the more expensive option is actually worth it, what risk is missing, and what evidence would change the conclusion.
Argumont turns questions like these into an analytical process.
The answer depends on context.
The same two options can produce different Verdicts for people with different objectives, constraints, risk tolerance, timelines, or evidence.
Do not force factual questions into fake debates.
If the user asks a factual question, Argumont should answer or research the factual question.
It should not invent Champions merely because the product is capable of adversarial analysis.
Use the question that matches your Decision.
Every question page below is a live page, not a sitemap placeholder.
Open the question you are actually asking.
Each one names the Decision it implies, the evidence it usually needs, and how Champion and Challenger should treat it.
Then bring Argumont the actual options and context you are considering.
Question library
Challenge a business idea
To challenge a business idea, write it as the handful of claims that must all hold for it to work, find the one most likely to be false and most costly if it is...
Challenge assumptions
Every plan rests on assumptions, and most of them are harmless. A few carry the whole weight: if they are wrong, nothing else in the plan matters. Challenging y...
Compare two options
To compare two business options, agree on the criteria and their weights before scoring either, score each with the evidence written beside every number, and wo...
Compare two vendors
Two vendors, two polished demos, and two proposals that each claim to be the obvious choice. The fair way to compare them is to decide what you are testing for ...
Incomplete information
Complete information almost never arrives in time. By the time every question is answered, the opportunity has usually passed or someone else has taken it. The ...
Defensible decisions
A decision is defensible when a fair reviewer, months later, can see that you weighed real alternatives against criteria set in advance, relied on evidence you ...
Test a strategy
To test a strategy, write it as a few clear choices, list what must be true about customers, rivals, costs, and your own abilities for those choices to work, an...
How to weight criteria
Criteria weights say, in numbers, what you care about and how much. Most people set them by feel, and that is where many decisions quietly go wrong. Here are th...
Is the idea good?
Friends will tell you the idea is great, and some of them will mean it. Neither fact tells you much. A business idea is good when a specific group of people has...
Should I raise prices?
Raise prices when two things are true: good customers receive clearly more value than they pay for, and the margin you gain on those who stay exceeds the margin...
Build or buy?
Buy when the capability is something every business needs and a product already does most of it. Build when it is the reason customers choose you, or when nothi...
Change suppliers?
Change suppliers when the new source beats the current one on full landed cost and on reliability, after you count the cost of qualifying it and the risk of the...
Enter a new market?
Enter a new market when you can show buyers there who will pay, a cost of serving them that you have actually priced, and a home business that can spare the att...
Fund or hold?
A funding decision is rarely a plain yes or no. The money has another use: the next project in line, a reserve, paying down debt, or waiting a cycle. Argumont p...
Should we launch?
Launch when a small group of the buyers you designed for has already paid for the product in its current form, you can serve them at a margin, and you know how ...
Use AI for this process?
Use AI in a process when the task repeats often, its output can be checked, mistakes are cheap to catch or reverse, you have measured accuracy on your own past ...
Best for
Argumont is built for consequential choices where a wrong answer is expensive, slow to undo, or has to be explained later. The common thread is a set of options...
What makes evidence strong
Strong evidence is evidence that could have told you something you did not want to hear. That simple test separates most of what persuades people from what shou...
When there is no winner
Most decision processes are built to produce a winner, so they always do, even when the evidence cannot support one. Sometimes the honest finding is that no opt...
Which cloud provider?
Choose the provider that runs your real workload at the lowest total cost your team can operate safely, keeps data where your customers and regulators need it, ...
Which pricing model?
The best pricing model charges for a unit that rises with the value your customer receives and with your cost to serve them, in a form buyers can predict and yo...
Which vendor?
Choose the vendor whose evidence best meets criteria you weighted before the first demo, at a cost you have worked out over the whole contract, with an exit you...
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