Review variants with Nexus-Council

You have several preview URLs in front of you. Your gut already has a favorite or two. Before you commit, run a structured review through Nexus-Council — a library of expert personas (Brand Strategist, Conversion Copywriter, UXA, Connected Intelligence Advisor) accessible inside Claude Code via the MCP server you wired up in chapter 00.

The point isn’t to outsource the decision. It’s to surface things you’d miss on a gut-only pass: tone-credibility mismatches, hierarchy that buries the wrong signal, an aesthetic that flatters the wrong audience.

The review prompt

Paste this into Claude Code, replacing the bracketed values with your actual preview URLs.

Use the nexus-council MCP to run a multi-persona design review.

Personas to invoke:
- Brand Strategist
- Conversion Copywriter
- UXA
- Connected Intelligence Advisor

Inputs to give them:
- My role goal: I am an executive on a job search. The site is a bio plus a writing portfolio. The audience is recruiters, hiring boards, and senior peers evaluating me for executive roles.
- My tone tags from content/shell.yaml: [paste them in]
- The variant preview URLs I want them to evaluate:
1. <branch-name-1> — <preview-url-1>
2. <branch-name-2> — <preview-url-2>
3. <branch-name-3> — <preview-url-3>
(and so on)

Ask each persona to:
1. Visit each preview URL.
2. Score each variant 1 to 5 against their domain criteria.
3. Note the strongest signal and the weakest signal in each variant from their perspective.
4. Recommend a single winner with one sentence of reasoning.

Then synthesize the four persona views into:
- A ranked list (1 to N) of the variants.
- The single recommended winner, with the reasoning that came up most across personas.
- Any disagreements between personas worth my attention.

Return the synthesis as a markdown table with persona-by-persona scores plus a short paragraph at the end.

Reading the output

The personas won’t always agree, and that’s the useful part. Watch for:

• Strong consensus. If three of four personas pick the same variant, that’s a signal worth weighing heavily.
• A persona dissenting on credibility. If the Connected Intelligence Advisor or Brand Strategist push back on a variant the others love, take it seriously — these personas are calibrated for executive credibility.
• Persona conflicts you weren’t expecting. Sometimes the Conversion Copywriter and the UXA pull in different directions (clarity of CTA vs. visual quiet). Read both rationales before deciding.

Picking a winner

There’s no automated correct answer. Trust your gut, informed by the panel. If the panel pushed you toward a variant you weren’t planning to choose, look at it again with fresh eyes — sometimes that’s the right call.

When you’ve decided, note the branch name. You’ll promote it in chapter 06.