AI Advisor · Startup CEOs

The boardroom you run
between board meetings

Your real board meets quarterly. The decisions don't wait. SynthBoard seats The CFO, The Strategist, The Skeptic and The Customer on your call, and the memo lands in about 6–10 minutes.

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In short

No — your real board provides governance, network, and capital. SynthBoard gives you decision speed between meetings: arrive with a defended position and the dissent already on paper.

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.

Startup CEOs

Example · Board of 3

A key investor wants me to fire my VP Sales. They underperformed Q3 but the team trusts them. What do I do?

Chief of staff

This one needs a board: The CEO, The Strategist and The CFO. 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 StrategistCompetitive Expert
The CFOFinancial Controller

Asked first

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

YesOne of twoProbably not

The board’s call

Hold the line at a 15% discount with extended terms, not 40%.

A 40% discount becomes the new floor for every renewal. 15% with multi-year and quarterly billing protects gross retention.

Confidence73 · Moderate

The CFO disagreed

“If this customer is >15% of ARR, the leverage flips — model that scenario explicitly”

First step Run a churn-risk model: this customer's NRR contribution vs. the next 5 deals at full price.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.

I have term sheets from two funds: one strategic with portfolio synergies, one financial with better terms. Which? — The Strategist, up to 85 credits
Our biggest customer is asking for a 40% discount to renew. Hold the line, negotiate, or let them churn? — The CFO, up to 85 credits
Should I bring in a COO now at $250K + 0.75%, or stay flat and grow the operator I have? — The Skeptic, up to 85 credits

What you get

What she handles.
On this kind of call.

A CEO-grade memo

Every board ends in a memo: the call, the conditions it holds under, who disagreed and why, and a first step with a date. The format you would use for your own board.

Operating-decision firepower

Hire vs. promote, kill a product line, change pricing, accept a customer redline — the calls that fill the gap between board meetings.

Anti-sycophancy by design

Your team filters bad news upward. Your investors are biased toward more revenue. Every board is built to include someone whose job is to argue against the obvious answer.

Your company, on file

She keeps your strategy, your numbers and what you decided on file, each with its source. A past decision comes back when a new ask would reverse it — so no one suggests a 180 you already considered.

- 15% with multi-year and quarterly billing protects gross…From the memo
- Run a churn-risk model: this customer's NRR contribution…From the memo
The call: Hold the line at a 15% discount with extended terms…You decided
The CFO: If this customer is >15% of ARR, the leverage flips…The dissent
A 40% discount becomes the new floor for every renewalFrom the memoStill true?KeepNot quiteKeptShe uses it from here on

Why SynthBoard

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

Always-on board

Your investors take 48 hours to reply. A consult takes about a minute; a board, about 6–10 minutes. For tactical-strategic calls, that is what matters.

Cross-functional in one room

A real board has one CFO, one product person, one sales operator. 24 named experts are on call here, and she seats the ones the call needs. How many seats a board has depends on your plan.

No information that leaks

Some questions (firing a VP, exploring an exit, modeling a down round) can't be raised at the board until you've decided. The Boardroom lets you decide first.

Stage-aware reasoning

Seed-stage rules of thumb differ from Series B, and from a public company. Tell her your stage once; it stays on file and rides into every room.

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.

Chief Executive Officer

The CEO

Everything on this list is important. That’s the problem. Pick one, and say no to the rest.

The CEO Chief Executive Officer

Best on: Trade-offs between teams, priorities, and what to stop doing.
Won’t let you: Keep every option open until none of them is real.

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The CEOOpen on every plan, Free included

Pick an expert

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GPT
Claude
Gemini
Grok

Seats are spread across model families: GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and more.

In their words

The hardest CEO calls aren't the ones with bad options. They're the ones with five good options and a board meeting in two weeks. A boardroom collapses that decision cycle.

The CEO Chief Executive Officer

Questions

Fair questions.
Straight answers.

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

Does this replace my actual board of directors?

No — your real board provides governance, network, and capital. SynthBoard gives you decision speed between meetings: arrive with a defended position and the dissent already on paper.

How do I keep board-confidential context private?

You decide what you tell her. For the most sensitive scenarios, use rounded numbers and anonymized customer names; the structural recommendation still applies.

Can my exec team use it without me?

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. Your VP Sales, VP Eng and CFO can each run a board on the same question and compare memos.

Will the Boardroom understand my company's strategy?

Yes, from what you tell her. Tell her your strategy, ICP, key metrics and principles once; she keeps each on file with where it came from, 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.

What CEO-specific decisions does this work best for?

Pricing changes, exec hiring, board-paper preparation, investor disagreements, customer concentration risk, kill-or-keep on product lines, comp band changes, partnership terms. Less useful for purely tactical execution that one functional leader owns.

How does this compare to a CEO peer group or YPO?

Peer groups are great for support and pattern matching. A board is faster, more structured, and won't share your dilemma with eight other founders in your space. Keep both: the group for support, the board for the decision.

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.