AI Advisor · Investors

For the conviction calls
that need more than your own thesis

The Investor, The Strategist, The Skeptic, The Data Scientist, and The Futurist argue every deal and portfolio decision — so your conviction is earned, not inherited.

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In short

Both, with different lineups. Angels usually ask for The Investor, The Skeptic, The Strategist, and The CFO. Institutional investors add The Data Scientist for portfolio-level analysis; family offices and PE often add The Lawyer for deal-term review.

Last reviewed October 1, 2026

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.

Investors

Example · Board of 3

I have conviction on this deal. Walk me through the strongest reasons I'm wrong.

Chief of staff

This one needs a board: The Investor, The Strategist and The Skeptic. The Investor thinks like a board, an LP, and a downstream acquirer at once. Each researches alone first, then they react to one another — and on a decision, two of them take opposed sides.

The InvestorVC Partner
The StrategistCompetitive Expert
The SkepticRisk Assessor

Asked first

Are you after the biggest outcome, or the most certain one?

The biggestThe most certainNot sure

The board’s call

Take 50% of pro-rata, sell 25% into secondary.

100% pro-rata in a single position concentrates portfolio risk too much at this fund stage. Secondary at current valuation crystallizes paper gains into usable capital.

Confidence67 · Moderate

The Skeptic disagreed

“Selling secondary may trigger ROFR or board notification — check your docs”

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.

Two follow-on opportunities at different stages. Concentrate or diversify? — The Strategist, up to 85 credits
A portfolio company has missed every milestone. Double down, hold, or write it off? — The Skeptic, up to 85 credits
Should I take pro-rata in the next round or sell into secondary at current valuation? — The Data Scientist, up to 85 credits

What you get

What she handles.
On this kind of call.

Investment-thesis stress-testing

Every board seats someone whose job is to argue against your thesis with the rigor you'd hope an LP would. Catch the hole before you write the check.

Portfolio construction

Position sizing, sector concentration, follow-on strategy — modeled with The Investor and The Analyst.

Deal-evaluation framework

Team, market, product, terms — each argued on its own, then landed as one conviction call with the dissent kept on the memo.

Exit and rebalancing decisions

Hold vs. sell vs. average down — argued with second-order tax and signaling effects framed explicitly.

Why SynthBoard

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

Conviction stress-testing on demand

You can't always get a partner to argue against your deal. A board can — at any hour, with opposition built in.

Decision-journal continuity

She keeps your thesis, prior bets, and stated principles on file, each with its source, and a past call comes back when a new one would reverse it. Every memo adds to a decision history for LP letters and retrospectives.

- Secondary at current valuation crystallizes paper gains…From the memo
- Partial-pro-rata signals continued conviction without…From the memo
The call: Take 50% of pro-rata, sell 25% into secondary.You decided
The Skeptic: Selling secondary may trigger ROFR or board…The dissent
100% pro-rata in a single position concentrates portfolio risk…From the memoStill true?KeepNot quiteKeptShe uses it from here on

Multi-dimensional deal evaluation

Team, market, product, terms, signaling — each argued on its own rather than collapsed into a single overall vibe.

Private — no signal leakage

Some deal evaluations can't happen in a fund Slack or in front of an associate. The Boardroom is private to your account.

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.

VC Partner

The Investor

I’m not asking if it can work. I’m asking if it can get big, and what it’s worth if it can’t.

The Investor VC Partner

Best on: Raising, valuation, selling, or a job offer against your own company.
Won’t let you: Mistake a good small business for a fundable one, or the reverse.

Try asking The Investor

Start with

The InvestorOpen 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

Returns come from the deals you didn't do as much as the ones you did. The boardroom is the cheapest way to test conviction before the IC vote — or before the angel check clears.

The Investor VC Partner

Questions

Fair questions.
Straight answers.

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

Is this for institutional or angel investors?

Can this replace partner debate at a fund?

No — partner debate has the value of relationship continuity and shared accountability. A board is the pre-partnership-meeting analysis: run it before the Monday meeting and arrive with the opposition already considered.

How does it handle deal-specific confidentiality?

Your rooms are private to your account and not used to train models. For the most sensitive deals, use anonymized context (sector + stage + team profile, no names); the structural recommendation still applies. Check your fund's AI-tool policy.

Can this help with LP reporting?

Indirectly — every memo is a documented rationale (the call, the conditions, the dissent) you can reference in LP letters and quarterly reports. The board doesn't write LP comms for you, but the memos make the work faster.

How current is the Boardroom on current market conditions?

Each expert researches before reacting, so the board draws on current public sources — but it is not a market-data terminal. For transaction multiples and sector heat, pair it with your data subscriptions. The board is the conviction layer, not the data-gathering layer.

Will the Boardroom argue against most deals?

No — it argues each deal on merit. The Skeptic surfaces objections, The Investor often counters them, and the memo lands a conviction read with the dissent attached. It can surface conviction on a deal you were leaning away from, not just objections to the ones you lean into.

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.