Real advisors bring judgment, network, and reputational accountability. SynthBoard brings the structured boardroom debate you would convene if assembling the room were free. Use both, sequentially.
Strategist, CFO, investor, customer voice, skeptic — the room you would build, if recruiting were instant and equity were free.
The synths debate until consensus is earned. You see the dissent, the watch-outs, and the consensus score — not a polite single-voice deliverable.
Every session ends with a written synthesis you can share with your real advisors, your co-founders, or your board.
Real questions. Multiple expert perspectives. Every time.
“Should we raise our seed round at the higher valuation that comes with the worse investor?”
“What are the watch-outs on our pivot from B2C to B2B-first?”
“How would a thoughtful advisory board sequence our hiring plan against runway?”
“What is the steel-man case against the partnership our biggest customer is asking for?”
“Which of our four product bets would real advisors most want us to kill?”
Each expert thinks independently — they won’t just agree with each other.
The Strategist
Maps competitive dynamics and strategic options across multi-year horizons.
The CFO
Pressure-tests unit economics, runway, and capital allocation.
The Investor
Thinks like a board, an LP, and a downstream acquirer at once.
The Customer
Speaks for the buyer’s real problem, not the product team’s assumption.
The Skeptic
Questions every premise. Finds blind spots others miss.
A synthesized recommendation from your team of experts — not just opinions, but structured analysis.
Strong Agreement
Key Recommendations
Synthesized Recommendation
Take the higher valuation, but only if you secure board observer rights from the lower-quality investor and an A-round commitment letter from a top-tier syndicate partner. The cap-table optics matter less than the lead-investor signal at the next round.
Full analysis continues with detailed reasoning, trade-offs, and next steps...
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Expert Opinions
“The best advisory boards are not for the advice — they are for the moment a name says "I will back this." SynthBoard is for everything else.”
Real advisory boards take months to recruit. The synthetic board is yours the moment you sign in.
Free to start. A typical advisor takes 0.25%-1% equity over four years.
Real boards meet 4-12 times a year. The synthetic board meets whenever you have a decision worth running.
Real advisors are diplomatic by training. The synths are engineered to disagree until consensus earns it.
The questions people ask before they sign up.
No. Real advisors bring introductions, network, reputational accountability, and the political weight of a named person backing the recommendation. SynthBoard cannot do any of those things. Use it as the stress-test you run before the human board meeting — so they see your sharpest thinking, not your first thinking.
When you need an answer tonight. When you cannot assemble the room. When the decision is too small to burn advisor goodwill. When you are pre-product-market-fit and equity is too expensive to give. When you want structurally adversarial review rather than the harmony of a relationship-based panel.
When you need introductions. When you need a named human to stake their reputation on the call. When the relationship itself — not just the advice — is the point. When the decision requires someone in your industry to vouch for you. SynthBoard is a thinking room; an advisory board is a relationship network.
SynthBoard is free to start; paid tiers run low double-digit dollars per month. A typical advisor expects 0.25%-1% equity over four years, plus expenses. The cost structure is fundamentally different and the two are complementary.
No introductions, no warm intros to investors or customers, no reputational accountability, no off-session availability for a quick call, no industry-specific anecdotes from lived experience. SynthBoard is a structured boardroom debate; an advisory board is a relationship asset.
Yes. Shareable sessions let you invite co-founders, operators, or real advisors. The synth panel holds the floor and runs the structured debate; your humans bring the judgment, the introductions, and the gavel. Many founders use this pattern to compress advisor time — the synths do the stress-testing, the humans do the high-leverage judgment.
Adjacent decisions, audiences, and methods inside SynthBoard.
The fiduciary-board comparison.
ExploreThe peer-group alternative.
ExploreThe full head-to-head comparison.
ExploreFundraising calls an advisory board would workshop.
ExploreThe full comparison hub.
ExploreThe category page.
ExploreConvene 24 expert Synths to debate it across rounds. Free to start. No card.