# Parallel-Voice Proposer > Generate 2–3 candidate thoughts in parallel under named voices in one completion and have the same model select the canonical one — surfacing internal disagreement without paying for sequential persona calls. - **Category**: Agentic AI - **Subcategory**: Cognition & Introspection - **Canonical URL**: https://designpattern.fyi/patterns/parallel_voice_proposer/ --- ## Description **Intent**: Single-pass generation produces confident-sounding output that masks real internal disagreement. Best-of-N is too expensive. Sequential personas are too slow. Parallel voices in one completion is the practical middle ground. **Context**: A single-agent loop on a workload where the model often outputs confident prose that hides real ambivalence or disagreement. Running an inner-committee of personas sequentially is too slow per tick; scoring N independent completions is too expensive per call. **Solution**: Prompt the model to produce 2–3 candidate next-thoughts in one completion, each prefixed with a voice tag (e.g. [voice: world-model], [voice: critic], [voice: prediction]). Then ask for a single selected: line with a one-sentence reason. The canonical thought enters the main stream; losers append to a proposer-losers log for inspection. Voices that never win across a rolling window become eligible for retirement — explicit, not silent. ## Use Cases - Single-pass generation produces overconfident output that hides real internal disagreement. - Sequential persona calls are too slow per tick for the cadence you need. - An external reward model for best-of-N scoring is not available. ## Trade-offs ### Advantages - Internal disagreement is preserved rather than collapsed into one confident output - One completion is cheaper than sequential persona calls while still surfacing alternatives - The loser log creates an audit substrate for retrospective analysis ### Considerations & Drawbacks - Same model means correlated voices — true diversity is limited by shared training distribution - Self-selection can rubber-stamp the first candidate without an explicit rotation strategy - Keeping voices distinct adds prompt overhead per tick --- **Reference**: [Original Source](https://www.agentpatternscatalog.org/patterns/parallel-voice-proposer/)