Building a Council of Machines

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0530

One AI is an assistant. Multiple AIs with governance, identity, and fallback routing — that’s a council. I built one that runs on a Mac Mini.

The setup: Claude Opus handles complex reasoning and architecture decisions. Claude Sonnet handles routine execution. Gemini does broad analysis and fast iteration. Groq runs Llama at absurd speed for parallelizable tasks. DeepSeek and Mistral handle specialized workloads. Eleven Ollama models run locally for anything that should never leave the machine.

Multi-Agent on Truth-First Beacon — Paul Desai

Building a Council of Machines