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SynthBoard

AI Advisor · Executive Coaches

The supervision call you wish you could schedule on demand

Executive coaches operate alone with high-stakes clients. SynthBoard is structured supervision on demand — named experts who pressure-test your framing, framework choice, and ethical calls.

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In short

No — peer supervision and certified supervision serve relational and developmental functions a board can't. SynthBoard is the structured analysis between supervision sessions. Keep both.

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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.

Executive Coaches

Example · Board of 3

My CEO client is in denial about a board concern. Direct confrontation, slow surfacing, or invite the board into the room?

Chief of staff

This one needs a board: The Empath, The Ethicist and The Strategist. The Empath reads the emotional, cultural, and team dynamics behind the decision. Each researches alone first, then they react to one another — and on a decision, two of them take opposed sides.

  • The EmpathPeople Advocate
  • The EthicistValues Guardian
  • The StrategistCompetitive Expert

Asked first

Who does this land on hardest, and do they know yet?

They knowNot yetNot sure who

The board’s call

Hold the line on coaching scope; offer a session-pause and 1-2 referrals to people-decision advisors you trust.

Scope creep into advisory work weakens the coaching frame and often loses the client long-term. A clear referral demonstrates your boundary as service, not abandonment.

Confidence79 · High

The Strategist disagreed

“Some clients will read the referral as rejection; pre-frame the boundary at re-contracting”

First step Document the scope conversation in your client notes.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.

  • A client wants me to advise them through a layoff. I coach; I don't advise on people decisions. Hold the line or expand scope? — The Ethicist, up to 85 credits
  • Should I raise my rate from $800 to $1,200 per session for new clients? My pipeline supports it but my self-talk doesn't. — The Strategist, up to 85 credits
  • A potential client wants 20 sessions upfront at a 30% discount. Take the certainty or hold rate? — The Skeptic, up to 85 credits

What you get

What she handles.
On this kind of call.

Client-prep analysis

Before each client session, a consult helps surface what's actually going on with the client beyond what they're saying.

Framework selection

Immunity to Change, Polarity Management, GROW, CTI — argued by the experts for fit to the client, not what you're most comfortable with.

Ethical and boundary decisions

Client wants advice you shouldn't give, asks you to break confidentiality, or crosses scope — The Ethicist and The Empath argue it with structured rigor.

Practice-building decisions

Pricing, niche, certification choice, partnership offers — your business as a coach, argued with the same depth as your client work.

Why SynthBoard

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

Built for coach-grade analysis

Most generic AI gives you a "talk to your client about it" answer. A board argues the specific dynamic, the right framework, and the timing.

No projection from your own client load

After 30 hours of coaching this week, every new situation pattern-matches to your last one. A board doesn't carry that fatigue or projection.

Confidentiality for solo practice

Many coaches have no supervisor to debrief with. Your rooms are private, structured, and there the moment a difficult client session ends.

Ethical reasoning native

The Ethicist surfaces conflicts of interest, scope drift, and harm-prevention frames most coaches handle solo.

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

Coaches operate without a copilot. The boardroom is the copilot — and the question I needed to ask myself before I walked into the next client conversation.
The Empath People Advocate

Questions

Fair questions.
Straight answers.

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

Is this a substitute for supervision?

No — peer supervision and certified supervision serve relational and developmental functions a board can't. SynthBoard is the structured analysis between supervision sessions. Keep both.

How does it handle client confidentiality?

Your rooms are private to your account, and she keeps a fact on file only when you confirm it. For client work, anonymize names and identifying details — the analysis works on patterns, not specifics. Check your certification's confidentiality requirements first.

Will it tell me what to do with my client?

It will argue several positions, surface what you might be missing, and land a recommended approach with the dissent attached. Your professional judgment is still the deciding layer — often the most useful part is the question you hadn't yet asked yourself.

Can this help with framework selection?

Yes — particularly when you're defaulting to your favorite framework. A board argues fit to the client across frameworks (GROW, Immunity to Change, ORSC, Polarity Management, somatic approaches). A useful check against personal-framework bias.

Will it help me grow my coaching practice?

For decisions about your business (pricing, niche, certification, partnership), yes. For lead-gen, use it to argue strategy, not to generate leads. Ask for The Marketer on positioning and channel decisions.

How does it handle ethical edge cases?

The Ethicist argues the ethical dimensions explicitly — boundary-crossing, dual relationships, scope creep, harm prevention. For specific regulatory decisions (ICF ethics complaints, mandatory reporting), follow your certifying body's guidance.

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.

A potential client wants 20 sessions upfront at a 30% discount. Take the certainty or hold rate?I have a client whose behavior I find ethically concerning. Continue coaching, raise it, or terminate?Should I raise my rate from $800 to $1,200 per session for new clients? My pipeline supports it but my self-talk doesn't.

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.