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SynthBoard

AI Advisor · Consultants

The senior partner you bring into every client engagement

A board of named experts pressure-tests your client's strategy before you present it. Stop billing 40 hours for analysis a board lands in about 6–10 minutes.

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In short

Yes, as your analysis engine; the deliverable is your synthesis and judgment. Treat it as the internal senior partner who pressure-tests the recommendation before the readout. Check your client's AI-tool policy before sharing client-confidential data.

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An example

One ask, start to finish.
What comes back is a memo.

How a board takes a call like this: her read, who sits, what they ask first, then the call — with how sure they are, who disagreed and the first step.

Consultants

Example · Board of 3

My client is choosing between two GTM strategies. I have a recommendation; how do I stress-test it before the readout?

Chief of staff

This one needs a board: The Strategist, The Skeptic and The CFO. The Strategist maps competitive dynamics and strategic options across multi-year horizons. Each researches alone first, then they react to one another — and on a decision, two of them take opposed sides.

  • The StrategistCompetitive Expert
  • The SkepticRisk Assessor
  • The CFOFinancial Controller

Asked first

Has a competitor already made this move?

Yes, one hasNot that I knowWe’d be first

The board’s call

Niche to one vertical for the next 12 months while keeping existing horizontal clients on retainer.

Niche positioning compounds in 6-12 months via referrals and SEO. Existing horizontal book funds the rate gap during transition.

Confidence74 · Moderate

The CFO disagreed

“Pick a niche where your existing work demonstrates credibility, not the most lucrative one in theory”

First step Cut new horizontal client intake immediately.this week

Board of 3 · up to 135 credits on the card · an example, not a recorded run

Other asks people bring here

Several asks in one message become several rooms, each with its expert and its own price on the card. Keep or drop any, then convene them together.

  • Should I raise my day-rate from $2,500 to $4,000, or build productized offerings to escape the day-rate model? — The Skeptic, up to 85 credits
  • A bigger consulting firm wants to acqui-hire my practice for $1.2M. Take it or push past $3M ARR independently? — The CFO, up to 85 credits
  • Should I niche down to one vertical or stay horizontal across mid-market clients? — The Empath, up to 85 credits

What you get

What she handles.
On this kind of call.

Client engagement firepower

Run a board as the analysis engine behind your recommendation. Bring the trade-offs and the dissent to your client, not raw research.

Deck and recommendation review

The Skeptic stress-tests your recommendation before the client does, and every board seats someone whose job is to argue against the obvious answer. Catch the question you didn't want.

Practice-management decisions

Pricing engagements, hiring, niche-vs-generalist, partnership structures — your own business decisions argued with the same rigor.

A second pair of expert eyes

Solo consultants miss what a partner would catch in review. The Boardroom is the review partner solo practices don't have.

Why SynthBoard

Why SynthBoard for this.
Not one voice. A board.

Senior-partner-grade reasoning

The Strategist and The CFO bring a partner's questions to the work: what has to be true, and what would change the call. Useful for client work and for your own practice.

Hours-to-minutes leverage

Replace the multi-day "build the slide" cycle with a board that lands in about 6–10 minutes, then spend the saved hours on client face-time and findings communication.

Confidential by default

You can't argue a client's strategy in public. Your rooms are private to your account, and nothing leaves it unless you share a memo.

No conflict of interest

Unlike a co-consultant, the Boardroom doesn't have its own engagement to protect or its own framework to sell.

Who sits

The experts for this call.
Each one holds a position.

Your Chief of Staff proposes who sits for the call, and every board is built with someone whose job is to argue against the obvious answer. Name an expert and they take a seat; tell her who you want on your board and they sit by default. How many seats a board has depends on your plan.

Pick an expert

Hover, tap or tab throughSwipe, then tap one
  • GPT
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Grok

Seats are spread across model families: GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and more.

In their words

A consultant's edge isn't the framework — it's the judgment of which framework matters for this client. The boardroom argues the frameworks. The consultant lands the judgment.
The Strategist Competitive Expert

Questions

Fair questions.
Straight answers.

What people ask before they bring this call to a board.

Can I use this for client deliverables?

Yes, as your analysis engine; the deliverable is your synthesis and judgment. Treat it as the internal senior partner who pressure-tests the recommendation before the readout. Check your client's AI-tool policy before sharing client-confidential data.

How do I keep client data confidential?

Your rooms are private to your account and not used to train models. For the most sensitive engagements, use anonymized client context (industry + size, no names); the structural recommendation still applies. For regulated industries, check your firm's AI policy first.

Will this devalue my consulting work?

No — it changes what you bill for. The leverage shifts from "I spent 40 hours building analysis" to "this recommendation held up against opposed expert perspectives on your specific situation." That's a higher-margin offering, not a lower one.

Can a small firm or partnership use this together?

Each consultant on their own account. There is no shared team workspace — each person keeps their own file. What travels between you is the memo. A board’s memo shares as a page anyone can read without an account. Share a memo with a partner when you want a second reader on an engagement.

How does it compare to ChatGPT for consulting research?

ChatGPT gives you a summary; a board gives you the argument — opposed positions, who disagreed and why. For research-gathering, ChatGPT is fine. For a defended recommendation, the board's structure is the point. Use both.

Will my client think I outsourced the thinking?

You're doing the thinking — the board structures the argument. Frame it the way you'd frame an associate using internal frameworks and templates: it accelerates the work; the partner's judgment is what the client pays for.

Keep exploring

Nearby decisions, audiences and methods inside SynthBoard.

SynthBoard (synthboard.ai) is one place for your business, your life, and every hard call. Your Chief of Staff keeps what you tell her on file, and 24 named experts on different AI models take the calls — one expert for a consult, a board with opposed seats for the hard ones — and hand back a memo with the call, the dissent and the first move. How it works.

The advisor you don't have, on demand.
Start free, with one message.

Should I niche down to one vertical or stay horizontal across mid-market clients?Should I raise my day-rate from $2,500 to $4,000, or build productized offerings to escape the day-rate model?A bigger consulting firm wants to acqui-hire my practice for $1.2M. Take it or push past $3M ARR independently?

It waits in her box after you sign up. Nothing is sent until you press send. Free to start — 150 credits every month + 250 to start. Every consult and board shows its price on the card, and nothing runs until you tap.