AI Advisor · Founders

An AI advisor
for founders who can't get a real board yet

Get the structured pushback a seed-stage founder can't buy yet: named experts on opposed sides of your hardest call, and a memo that says who disagreed and why.

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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.

Founders

Example · Board of 3

Should I take a $500K SAFE at a $5M cap from a strategic angel, or hold out for an institutional seed?

Chief of staff

This one needs a board: The Strategist, The CFO and The Skeptic. 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 CFOFinancial Controller
The SkepticRisk Assessor

Asked first

Has a competitor already made this move?

Yes, one hasNot that I knowWe’d be first

The board’s call

Take the strategic angel at the $5M cap only if they commit to two warm intros to Series A funds.

Strategic angel's real value is signaling for the next round, not the $500K. Institutional seed gets cleaner cap table and price discovery.

Confidence71 · Moderate

The Skeptic disagreed

“Pro-rata terms in the SAFE could compound dilution at Series A”

First step Test what The Skeptic flagged before you commit.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.

My co-founder wants to pivot to enterprise; I want to stay PLG. How do we resolve this without breaking up? — The CFO, up to 85 credits
I have 9 months of runway and one big enterprise deal stuck in legal. Do I ship the next feature or chase the deal? — The Skeptic, up to 85 credits
Should I hire a head of sales now at $180K base, or stay founder-led selling for another quarter? — The Customer, up to 85 credits

What you get

What she handles.
On this kind of call.

An advisory bench, sized to the call

Your Chief of Staff proposes who sits — The Strategist, The CFO, The Skeptic, The Customer, The Growth Hacker — and you can name anyone else. Opposed seats, not one chat persona pretending to be neutral.

Specific to the founder loop

Built for the calls founders actually face: hire vs. contract, raise vs. bootstrap, kill a feature, sign a customer with bad fit terms, pivot at 6 months of runway.

No yes-machine bias

Every board is built to include someone whose job is to argue against the obvious answer. The pushback is built into the room, not promised away.

A board-quality memo, not a chat log

Every board ends in a memo: the call, the conditions it holds under, who disagreed and why, and a first step with a date. Its confidence drops with dissent and is never above 90. Paste it into your own board update.

Why SynthBoard

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

Real advisor lineup — not one persona

A solo ChatGPT prompt gives you one voice trying to do every job. A board seats named experts on different AI models, each with its own brief. Each researches alone, then reacts once to the others.

Engineered disagreement

On a decision, at least two experts are assigned opposed positions. You see the strongest counter-argument before you commit, and it stays on the memo.

Priced for pre-PMF founders

A real advisory board costs $50K–200K a year in equity and cash. Talking to your Chief of Staff is free within a daily allowance, and a board shows one price on its card before it runs — up to 135 credits on the Free plan.

A memo between investor calls

Async board meetings, Slack threads and follow-ups compress into one memo you read when it lands. A consult takes about a minute; a board, about 6–10 minutes.

Your world, on file

Your Chief of Staff keeps what you tell her on file, each fact with where it came from, and nothing is kept until you confirm it. What you decided comes back when a new ask would reverse it.

- Institutional seed gets cleaner cap table and price…From the memo
- Six weeks of fundraising costs ~20% of founder bandwidth…From the memo
The call: Take the strategic angel at the $5M cap only if they…You decided
The Skeptic: Pro-rata terms in the SAFE could compound…The dissent
Strategic angel's real value is signaling for the next round…From the memoStill true?KeepNot quiteKeptShe uses it from here on

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.

Competitive Expert

The Strategist

Don’t ask whether it’s good. Ask what your competitor does the day after you ship it.

The Strategist Competitive Expert

Best on: Positioning, entering a market, pricing against a rival.
Won’t let you: Plan a move as if nobody will answer it.

Try asking The Strategist

Start with

The StrategistOpen on every plan, Free included

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

Founders don't fail from missing data. They fail from missing the counter-argument. A boardroom forces it into the room before the decision becomes irreversible.

The Strategist Competitive ExpertThe Strategist on why founders need engineered opposition

Questions

Fair questions.
Straight answers.

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

Is an AI advisor a real substitute for human advisors at the seed stage?

For stress-testing a decision, largely yes. Human advisors are slow, biased toward their last pattern, and often absent when you need them. A board puts opposed experts on your call in about 6–10 minutes, and what you told her stays on file. Keep human advisors for warm intros and crisis support — and remember the experts are AI and can be wrong.

How is this different from just asking ChatGPT a founder question?

ChatGPT gives you one voice trying to please you. A SynthBoard board seats named experts — The CFO, The Skeptic, The Growth Hacker — on different AI models, and on a decision at least two are assigned opposed positions. You get the argument and who disagreed, not just an answer.

What types of founder decisions does this work best for?

Anything with real trade-offs and no obvious right answer: pivots, pricing changes, fundraising sequencing, hiring vs. contracting, kill-or-keep on a feature, partnership terms, co-founder disagreements. Less useful for purely tactical execution questions where one expert would suffice.

Can my co-founder and I use it together?

Not as co-authors — a board belongs to one account. Bring both positions to her and the board argues each on its merits; then share the memo as a read-only link your co-founder can open without an account.

Will the boardroom just tell me what I want to hear?

No — that is the design constraint. Every board is built to include someone whose job is to argue against the obvious answer. The memo's confidence drops with dissent and is never above 90, and the dissent stays on the page: who disagreed, why, and what would change the call.

How much does it cost compared to a fractional CFO or strategy advisor?

Far less. A fractional CFO runs $5K–15K a month; a strategy advisor with equity costs 0.5–2% of your cap table. Free to start — 150 credits every month + 250 to start. Talking to your Chief of Staff is free within a daily allowance. A consult or a board shows its price on the card before anything runs, and nothing runs until you tap. A board never bills above its card.