Consulting firms bring scale, methodology, and partner-led judgment. SynthBoard brings a structured multi-agent room you can convene tonight — for the analysis layer of the work, at four orders of magnitude lower cost.
Strategy, operations, transformation, growth — the frames consulting firms walk you through, run live by a synth panel.
Strategist, operator, CFO, skeptic, customer — the cross-functional team a firm would assemble, ready in minute one.
Every session ends with a recommendation, watch-outs, and a 30-day action plan you can hand to your leadership team.
Real questions. Multiple expert perspectives. Every time.
“Should we engage a consulting firm for this — or is the question well-shaped enough for a boardroom session?”
“How would a top-tier firm sequence our 18-month strategic plan?”
“What is the steel-man case against the consulting recommendation we just received?”
“Which of our four strategic options carries the most risk of regret in three years?”
“How would a partner team frame this decision differently from our internal team?”
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 Operator
Turns strategy into the boring, sequenced work that actually ships.
The CFO
Pressure-tests unit economics, runway, and capital allocation.
The Skeptic
Questions every premise. Finds blind spots others miss.
The Customer
Speaks for the buyer’s real problem, not the product team’s assumption.
A synthesized recommendation from your team of experts — not just opinions, but structured analysis.
Moderate Agreement
Key Recommendations
Synthesized Recommendation
Skip the consulting engagement. The question is well-shaped, the data is in-house, and the answer is more about commitment than analysis. Use the engagement budget to fund the first 90 days of execution instead.
Full analysis continues with detailed reasoning, trade-offs, and next steps...
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Expert Opinions
“Most consulting engagements are a delay mechanism dressed as analysis. SynthBoard collapses the delay and reveals whether the question actually needed a firm.”
A typical consulting engagement runs 8-16 weeks. A SynthBoard session is finished by the end of the evening.
SynthBoard is free to start. A mid-market consulting engagement typically runs $100k-$2M.
Consulting firms are economically incentivised to expand scope. The synths are not.
One engagement = one framing. SynthBoard = unlimited framings, the same evening.
The questions people ask before they sign up.
For the analysis layer of the work, often yes. For implementation, primary research, regulated-industry credibility, and named-firm signalling, no. Use SynthBoard for the strategy debate and reserve consulting firms for the work that genuinely needs a delivery team.
When the question is well-shaped and the data is already in-house. When the decision is real but the budget is under six figures. When you need an answer this week, not this quarter. When you want adversarial structured input rather than a single polished recommendation.
For primary customer or expert research at scale. For implementation that requires bodies in your office for months. For regulated-industry transformations that need an audit-grade paper trail. For board-mandated work that requires a named firm. SynthBoard is a thinking room; a consulting firm is a delivery footprint.
SynthBoard is free to start; paid tiers run low double-digit dollars per month. A mid-market consulting engagement typically starts at $100k and can run into the millions. The two are not on the same unit-economics frame.
No on-site team, no primary research at scale, no implementation muscle, no audit-grade methodology, no senior-partner reputation backing the recommendation, no regulatory liaison. SynthBoard is a structured boardroom debate, not a delivery firm.
Yes — and it is one of the highest-leverage uses. Run the proposal through the panel before you sign. The synths will surface the weak assumptions, the scope creep risk, and the questions you should be asking the partner team. Most users tell us this saves more in scoping than the SynthBoard subscription costs for a year.
Adjacent decisions, audiences, and methods inside SynthBoard.
The MBB comparison.
ExploreThe independent-consultant comparison.
ExploreHead-to-head with a generalist consultant.
ExploreStrategic calls a firm would frame.
ExploreThe full comparison hub.
ExploreThe category page.
ExploreConvene 24 expert Synths to debate it across rounds. Free to start. No card.