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Second opinions
One good answer can still be one point of view. Second opinions put the same question to a few advisors with different expertise. They answer on their own, without seeing each other, and Manwe shows you where they agree, where they split, and what would settle it.
When to ask for them
Use second opinions when the answer depends on who you ask. A question about buying a house looks different to someone who sells houses, someone who lends money, and someone who plans finances. Each of them is right about something. Hearing them side by side shows you which parts of the decision are settled and which are still open.
They're also useful when an answer sounds a little too sure of itself. If the advisors split, that's worth knowing before you act.
What's the capital gains rate on stock I've held for two years?
I have $60k in company stock that's doubled. Should I sell some now to pay down our 6.8% mortgage, or hold and keep paying it as scheduled?
The first question has one right answer, and one advisor will give it to you. The second involves taxes, risk, and how you feel about debt, so reasonable people will see it differently.
Two ways to ask
From home. Pick the Second opinions chip under the composer (on a world's start screen, above it), write your question, and press Return. A new conversation opens and the advisors start answering.
In a conversation. Press Second opinions beside the composer, or type /secondOpinions. Manwe takes the last question you asked and puts it to other advisors. The one who has been answering you already gave their view, so they sit this one out.
Who answers
Manwe picks up to three complementary advisors, reusing your roster and creating missing specialists when needed. It first works out which kinds of expertise would see your question differently, then looks for advisors whose roles and specialties match. It skips anyone too close to an advisor already chosen, so you hear from different angles rather than three versions of the same one.
When choosing, Manwe looks at what the conversation is about, not just your last message. A follow-up like "how hard should we push?" still gets advisors who fit the original question.
How they answer
Every advisor works from the same sources. If the conversation already has sources from an earlier answer, they use those. If not, Manwe searches the web once and hands the results to all of them. That way, a disagreement comes from judgment, not from one advisor having read something the others didn't.
Each advisor uses its working instructions, relevant experience and assigned model. Agents without a fixed assignment follow the task model. They also read any documents you've attached. None of them sees what the others wrote. On a cloud model they answer at the same time. On a model running on your Mac they go one after another, because a local model can only write one answer at a time.
Reading the card
When they're done, the answers arrive as a single card in your conversation. The summary comes first:
Below the summary, each advisor gets a row with their name, their role, and their position in a few words. Click a row to read that advisor's full answer, with its sources.
If they all agree, the card says so and there's nothing to settle. That's a useful answer too. If only one advisor managed to answer, the card says that instead of pretending to compare.
What to do next
"What would settle it" is often the most useful line on the card. If it says the answer turns on your tax bracket, or on whether the seller will negotiate, go and find that out, then ask again with what you learned.
When you keep typing, the conversation stays with the advisor you were already talking to; the second opinions don't replace them. If second opinions were your first question, the next one is treated like a new question: an advisor who clearly fits takes it, or Manwe answers.
If one advisor's view stands out and you want to keep talking with them, invite them into the conversation and address them by name. Advisors explains how.
If the decision is big enough that you want the views tested against each other, not just placed side by side, that's what a deep review is for. Second opinions take about as long as one answer. A deep review takes longer and argues the question through.
/second to get second opinions on the last question in that conversation.