A boardroom of five named experts to pressure-test your client's strategy — before you present it. Stop billing 40 hours for analysis the boardroom delivers in 40 minutes.
Run a Boardroom session as the analysis engine behind your recommendation. Bring synthesized trade-offs to your client, not raw research.
The Skeptic and Devil's Advocate stress-test your recommendation before the client does. Catch the question you didn't want.
Pricing engagements, hiring, niche-vs-generalist, partnership structures — your own business decisions debated with the same rigor.
Solo consultants miss what a partner would catch in review. The Boardroom is the review partner solo practices don't have.
Real questions. Multiple expert perspectives. Every time.
“My client is choosing between two GTM strategies. I have a recommendation; how do I stress-test it before the readout?”
“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?”
“Should I niche down to one vertical or stay horizontal across mid-market clients?”
“A long-term client is asking for ongoing fractional work at a 30% discount. Hold rate, accept, or graduate them?”
Each expert thinks independently — they won’t just agree with each other.
The Strategist
Maps competitive dynamics and strategic options across multi-year horizons.
The Skeptic
Questions every premise. Finds blind spots others miss.
The CFO
Pressure-tests unit economics, runway, and capital allocation.
The Empath
Reads the emotional, cultural, and team dynamics behind the decision.
The Data Scientist
Pulls the analysis behind every confident claim.
A synthesized recommendation from your team of experts — not just opinions, but structured analysis.
Moderate Agreement
Key Recommendations
Synthesized Recommendation
Niche to one vertical for the next 12 months while keeping existing horizontal clients on retainer. Niches command 2-3x rate premiums; the horizontal book funds the transition. Cut new horizontal client intake immediately.
Full analysis continues with detailed reasoning, trade-offs, and next steps...
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Expert Opinions
“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 and CFO synths reason at the level of a partner at a top firm. Useful both for client work and for your own practice.
Replace the multi-day "build the slide" cycle with a 20-minute session, then spend the saved hours on client face-time and findings communication.
You can't debate a client's strategy in public. SynthBoard sessions are private to your account; you can also create per-client workspaces.
Unlike a co-consultant, the Boardroom doesn't have its own engagement to protect or its own framework to sell.
The questions people ask before they sign up.
You can use the Boardroom as your analysis engine; the deliverable is your synthesis and judgment. Many consultants treat it as the "internal senior partner" who pressure-tests their recommendation before the readout. Check your client's AI-tool policies before exposing client-confidential data.
Sessions are private to your account. For maximally sensitive engagements, use anonymized client context (industry + size, no names). The structural recommendation will still apply. For regulated industries, validate your firm's AI policy first.
No — it changes what you bill for. The leverage shifts from "I spent 40 hours building analysis" to "I synthesized five expert perspectives into a defended recommendation for your specific situation." That's a higher-margin offering, not a lower one.
Yes. Team plans let multiple consultants share workspaces and a shared decision history. Particularly useful for cross-engagement learning — partners can see how other engagements arrived at similar trade-offs.
ChatGPT gives you a summary; SynthBoard gives you a debate. For research-gathering, ChatGPT is faster. For arriving at a defended recommendation, the multi-synth synthesis is structurally superior. Most consultants use both.
You're doing the thinking — the Boardroom is the structured-debate tool. Frame it the same way you'd frame a McKinsey associate using internal frameworks and templates: it accelerates the work; the partner's judgment is what the client pays for.
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