A board of directors carries fiduciary weight, fiduciary duty, and a quarterly cadence. SynthBoard runs the structured debate you need between those meetings — and ahead of them, so the call you bring is your best thinking, not your first.
CEO, CFO, investor, strategist, skeptic — the room your board would convene if assembling it took zero days.
Walk into your board meeting with the synthesis, the watch-outs, and the consensus score in hand. Save the boardroom for the harder judgment calls.
For the calls that arrive between quarterly meetings and cannot wait. Run them through a synth panel and document the rationale.
Real questions. Multiple expert perspectives. Every time.
“How should I frame the runway question for the board next week?”
“What is the steel-man case against the new product line we are about to commit to?”
“How would a thoughtful board sequence the executive hires against our budget?”
“Is the CEO succession plan I am drafting realistic?”
“Which of these three strategic options would a top-tier board push back hardest on?”
Each expert thinks independently — they won’t just agree with each other.
The CEO
Holds the through-line on company strategy and stakeholder trade-offs.
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 Strategist
Maps competitive dynamics and strategic options across multi-year horizons.
The Skeptic
Questions every premise. Finds blind spots others miss.
A synthesized recommendation from your team of experts — not just opinions, but structured analysis.
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Key Recommendations
Synthesized Recommendation
Bring the runway question to the board with a 2-option frame: 12-month bridge round at flat valuation or 18-month cost-out plan that defers the round. Recommend the bridge but model both. Do not bring a single-option preference.
Full analysis continues with detailed reasoning, trade-offs, and next steps...
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Expert Opinions
“The board meeting is the wrong place to think out loud. SynthBoard is the right place. Do the thinking first; arrive with the synthesis.”
Boards meet 4-12 times a year. SynthBoard is the room for the 350 other days.
SynthBoard is free to start. Independent board director comp typically runs $30k-$150k+ per year per seat.
Boards are diplomatic with the CEO by professional habit. The synths are engineered to disagree until consensus is earned.
Every session ends with a synthesis you can bring directly to your board pre-read.
The questions people ask before they sign up.
No, and it cannot. A board of directors carries fiduciary duty, legal accountability, and governance authority that SynthBoard does not and should not. Use SynthBoard as the room between board meetings — the place you sharpen the call before you bring it to your fiduciary board.
Before every board meeting, to stress-test your framing. Between meetings, for the strategic calls that cannot wait. After meetings, to work through the directives the board left you with. The synthetic board is the rehearsal room; the real board is the performance.
For governance, legal accountability, CEO succession authority, and any decision that requires a fiduciary record. For investor signalling and the relationships that come with named board members. For the moments when the company needs a named human to take a position the CEO cannot. SynthBoard is a thinking room; a board is a governance structure.
SynthBoard is free to start. Independent board director comp typically runs $30k-$150k per year per seat for venture-backed companies and higher for public-company directors. The two are not substitutes — SynthBoard is for the in-between thinking.
No fiduciary authority, no governance decisions, no CEO hire-or-fire, no audit committee work, no public-company filings, no legal accountability. SynthBoard is a structured thinking room for the CEO and exec team to use; not a governance body.
Yes — and it makes the board meeting denser. Share the synthesis as a pre-read so directors arrive with the analysis already absorbed. The boardroom hour can then focus on the judgment calls that need human governance, not the walk-through of the data.
Adjacent decisions, audiences, and methods inside SynthBoard.
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