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SynthBoard

AI Advisor · Scaleup CEOs

For when the problems get bigger but the deciders don't

At Series B+ the questions get more expensive and the room of people qualified to argue them gets smaller. SynthBoard rebuilds the room — every time.

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In short

For structured decision-making, often yes. A strategy firm gives you a 60-page deck in 6 weeks; a board gives you a memo — the call, the conditions, the dissent — in about 6–10 minutes. For implementation, change management, and political cover, hire the consultant. For the decision itself, run the board first.

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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.

Scaleup CEOs

Example · Board of 3

Should we acquire our biggest competitor's smallest competitor to consolidate a vertical?

Chief of staff

This one needs a board: The CEO, The Investor and The Strategist. The CEO holds the through-line on company strategy and stakeholder trade-offs. Each researches alone first, then they react to one another — and on a decision, two of them take opposed sides.

  • The CEOChief Executive Officer
  • The InvestorVC Partner
  • The StrategistCompetitive Expert

Asked first

If you could do only one thing this quarter, is this it?

YesOne of twoProbably not

The board’s call

Run a 6-month EMEA test with one remote London-based AE + a regional partner.

Office-first expansion fails 60% of the time vs. 25% for AE-first. Reseller partnership gives market signal without fixed cost.

Confidence69 · Moderate

The Strategist disagreed

“AE-only model under-indexes on enterprise close rates in DACH and France”

First step Open the office only if the AE hits $500K bookings in 6 months.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.

  • EMEA expansion: open London office, hire one EMEA AE remote, or partner with a regional reseller? — The Investor, up to 85 credits
  • I have 3 VP candidates with very different backgrounds. The strategic-fit argument vs. the proven-operator argument — how do I weigh? — The Strategist, up to 85 credits
  • Should we run a secondary at $1.2B post or hold and push for a $2B Series D in 18 months? — The CFO, up to 85 credits

What you get

What she handles.
On this kind of call.

Scaleup-grade scenarios

International expansion, M&A, exec restructures, secondary sales, IPO timing — argued by The Investor, The Strategist and The CFO, each researching alone before they react.

Cross-functional complexity

Scaleup decisions hit finance, product, GTM, and ops simultaneously. The Boardroom is structurally built for that, where a single ChatGPT thread isn't.

Filter for executive surroundings

Your team is incentivized to tell you their function's view. The experts aren't — they argue the company's view.

Data-grounded recommendations

The Analyst and Data Scientist quantify what The Strategist proposes. No vibes-based scaleup decisions.

Why SynthBoard

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

Scaleup-stage reasoning

"First $10M" rules don't apply at $100M ARR. Tell her your stage and numbers once; they stay on file and every room starts from them.

M&A and capital-structure literacy

The Investor is briefed on secondary mechanics, down-round structures, drag-along clauses, and acquihire economics.

Org-design as a first-class concern

Org design eats a large share of a scaleup CEO's week. The Operator and The Empath argue restructures from both sides.

Lower stakes for the wrong call

A bad call at $100M ARR is worth $5–30M of enterprise value. A board shows its price on the card before it runs — a rounding error against one prevented misfire.

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

At scale, the cost of being wrong compounds linearly with revenue. A boardroom is the cheapest hedge a Series B CEO can buy.
The Investor VC Partner

Questions

Fair questions.
Straight answers.

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

Is this a real substitute for a $20K/month strategy consultant?

For structured decision-making, often yes. A strategy firm gives you a 60-page deck in 6 weeks; a board gives you a memo — the call, the conditions, the dissent — in about 6–10 minutes. For implementation, change management, and political cover, hire the consultant. For the decision itself, run the board first.

How is this different from my existing exec team?

Your exec team is the implementer of the decision and the political actor in it. They cannot be fully neutral. SynthBoard provides the neutral analysis that lets you pressure-test what your exec team is recommending.

Can my CFO and Head of Strategy each use it?

Yes, each on their own account. There is no shared team workspace — each person keeps their own file. What travels between you is the memo. A board’s memo shares as a page anyone can read without an account. Two boards on the same question before an exec meeting surface the trade-offs early.

What about M&A confidentiality?

Your rooms are private to your account, encrypted at rest, and not used to train models. Nothing leaves your account unless you share a memo, and a shared memo is read-only. Use code names for the target; the analysis still holds.

Does the Boardroom understand my industry?

Yes, once you tell her. Your category, ACV, and sales motion stay on file and ride into every room. For deep-vertical decisions, ask for The Investor with The Regulator or The Security Chief, depending on the category.

What's the ROI math for a scaleup?

One prevented bad exec hire at $300K base + 1% equity is worth $3–5M in net cost. One pricing decision that holds gross margin is worth 1–3% of ARR. A consult's card reads up to 85 credits; a board's card on the Free plan reads up to 135 credits. A board never bills above its card. The math is asymmetric.

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.

Two of my SVPs are openly fighting. Restructure, fire one, or bring in a COO over both?Should we acquire our biggest competitor's smallest competitor to consolidate a vertical?Should we run a secondary at $1.2B post or hold and push for a $2B Series D in 18 months?

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.