Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

I quit my job last year as a CIO and have been working on my own consultancy focused on using strategic foresight to help develop better strategies.

I built a bunch of consultant led tools (Jupyter notebooks mostly) using LLMs to help with this, and saw how customers reacted to what they could do. So I decided a few months ago to bundle them together into a SaaS app.

I’m just about to release the beta of https://www.portage.so to my waitlist in the next couple of weeks.

The main use case is using a virtual whiteboard (ReactFlow) to string together a series of nodes that do a different task through the strategy development process. For example, you can generate scenarios, then analyse the impacts, then create courses of action in response to potential disruptions and so on.

I do a fortnightly dev diary as well, the latest one shows off creating the final output: https://youtu.be/nD_FhWkREhE?si=JK60fVlT7wmmONW3