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SynthBoard

AI Advisor · Operators

For the role that owns "everything
that doesn't have an owner"

Operators run the cross-functional decisions no single function will own. SynthBoard is the boardroom for the call your CEO will ask you to make tomorrow.

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In short

Different titles, similar work — cross-functional decision support, process design, and CEO and exec-team leverage. SynthBoard is built for the function (cross-functional reasoning with no political stake), not the title.

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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.

Operators

Example · Board of 3

Sales says we need this CRM upgrade. Finance says no. Product wants Slack integration. How do I structure the trade-off?

Chief of staff

This one needs a board: The Operator, The Strategist and The CFO. The Operator turns strategy into the boring, sequenced work that actually ships. Each researches alone first, then they react to one another — and on a decision, two of them take opposed sides.

  • The OperatorCOO
  • The StrategistCompetitive Expert
  • The CFOFinancial Controller

Asked first

Who would own this on Monday if you said yes today?

MeSomeone on the teamNobody yet

The board’s call

Hold CRM upgrade for one quarter; run a 30-day diagnostic to confirm the bottleneck is the tool (vs. process, vs. enablement).

60% of CRM-tool decisions trace to process problems, not feature gaps. 30 days of diagnostic costs $0; a CRM migration costs 6 months of team distraction.

Confidence76 · High

The CFO disagreed

“Sales leader will read this as "you don't trust my judgment" — communicate the diagnostic as protection, not delay”

First step Test what The CFO 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.

  • Our quarterly planning process is broken. Redesign it now, mid-quarter, or wait for Q2? — The Strategist, up to 85 credits
  • CEO wants me to "figure out" why retention is dropping. Where do I even start? — The CFO, up to 85 credits
  • Should we standardize on one PM tool across the company or let each team pick? — The Empath, up to 85 credits

What you get

What she handles.
On this kind of call.

Cross-functional decision rigor

When sales, product, and finance disagree, the operator brokers. A board is the structured argument you wish those three leaders had together.

Process and systems calls

Tooling, vendor selection, workflow redesign — argued by The Operator and The CFO on ROI, not vendor charisma.

Org-design support

Team restructures, comp band changes, reporting-line decisions — argued with The Empath and The Strategist.

A CEO-readable memo

Operators present to CEOs. The memo is already in CEO-readable form: the call, the conditions it holds under, who disagreed and why, and a first step with a date.

Why SynthBoard

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

Cross-functional reasoning natively

Most AI tools are mono-functional. A board is cross-functional by construction — exactly what the operator role requires.

Memory across the operating system

Operators carry the company's decision history in their heads. She keeps it on file instead — each fact with where it came from, and every memo a record of how the call got made.

Filters past functional bias

Sales-leader recommendations favor sales; product-leader recommendations favor product. A board argues both, and the memo keeps the dissent.

Speed for the velocity role

Operators decide fast. A consult takes about a minute; a board, about 6–10 minutes. That beats an afternoon of research.

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

The operator role is owning the decision no one else will own. The boardroom is owning that decision with structure instead of intuition — and a memo at the end of it.
The Operator COO

Questions

Fair questions.
Straight answers.

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

What's the difference between operator, chief of staff, and biz-ops?

Different titles, similar work — cross-functional decision support, process design, and CEO and exec-team leverage. SynthBoard is built for the function (cross-functional reasoning with no political stake), not the title.

Can this replace a chief-of-staff hire?

Partially. SynthBoard's front door is an AI Chief of Staff: she keeps what you tell her on file, answers what she can, and opens a consult or a board when a call needs one. For relationship-building, exec-team facilitation, and CEO partnership, hire the human.

How does it handle company-context-heavy decisions?

Tell her your strategy, ICP, key metrics, values, and recent decisions once; she keeps each on file with its source, and it rides into every room. She reads your tools — Notion, Google Docs, Slack, Linear, Gmail, Shopify, 62 integrations in all — and says what she read. On Pro and above, a write is a preview you confirm.

Will the Boardroom recommend org-design changes?

When the situation warrants it, yes. The Operator, The Empath, and The Strategist argue restructure trade-offs explicitly. For specific people decisions (firing, promoting), The Empath surfaces the human factors most operators under-weight.

Can my CEO see what I'm running through it?

Only what you choose to share. Your rooms are private to your account; you can share a memo as a read-only page. Keep sensitive work private and share only the memo you want seen.

How does it integrate with project-management tools?

She reads your tools — Notion, Google Docs, Slack, Linear, Gmail, Shopify, 62 integrations in all — and says what she read. On Pro and above, a write is a preview you confirm. The memo ends in a first step with a date, so the call lands in your tracker as work, not as a meeting.

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.

CEO wants me to "figure out" why retention is dropping. Where do I even start?Should we standardize on one PM tool across the company or let each team pick?Our quarterly planning process is broken. Redesign it now, mid-quarter, or wait for Q2?

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.