Deloitte is built for scale, audit credibility, and multi-year transformation. SynthBoard is built for the decisions you make between those engagements — and the ones too small to justify one.
Cost-out, growth-in, transformation, M&A — the synths debate the operator-strategy frames a Deloitte team would walk you through.
CFO + operator + strategist + engineer + skeptic. The cross-functional room is yours in minute one.
Recommendation, watch-outs, and a 30-day action plan you can hand to your COO without translation.
Real questions. Multiple expert perspectives. Every time.
“Where should we cut SG&A this year — and where would cuts compound debt?”
“Should we insource or outsource the new customer-data platform?”
“How would a Big-Four operator team sequence our shared-services consolidation?”
“What is the steel-man case against this digital-transformation roadmap?”
“Which two of our four cost-out levers carry the most reputational risk?”
Each expert thinks independently — they won’t just agree with each other.
The Operator
Turns strategy into the boring, sequenced work that actually ships.
The CFO
Pressure-tests unit economics, runway, and capital allocation.
The Strategist
Maps competitive dynamics and strategic options across multi-year horizons.
The Engineer
Translates ambition into what’s actually buildable, by when, with whom.
The Skeptic
Questions every premise. Finds blind spots others miss.
A synthesized recommendation from your team of experts — not just opinions, but structured analysis.
Moderate Agreement
Key Recommendations
Synthesized Recommendation
Sequence shared-services consolidation Finance-first, defer HRIS, and insource the customer-data platform with a fractional CTO bridge. The CDP outsource case is weaker than it looks when you load the lock-in cost.
Full analysis continues with detailed reasoning, trade-offs, and next steps...
Watch Out For
Expert Opinions
“The cost of a Big-Four engagement is not just the fee — it is the months you spend waiting for the deck. SynthBoard collapses that wait into a conversation.”
Open SynthBoard and start. The discovery phase is the conversation itself.
Deloitte engagements typically clear seven figures. SynthBoard is free to start.
No partner trying to land the follow-on engagement. Synths are incentivised to disagree, not to expand.
One Deloitte engagement gives you one framing. SynthBoard gives you the same evening to test ten.
The questions people ask before they sign up.
No. Deloitte brings audit-grade credibility, regulatory standing, implementation muscle, and a global delivery footprint that SynthBoard cannot match. SynthBoard is best used for the strategy-debate portion of an engagement — either as preparation, or for decisions that do not need a Big-Four name on the deliverable.
When the decision is real but the spend is under six figures, when you need an answer this week, or when you want adversarial input rather than a unified consensus recommendation. Most mid-market operators use SynthBoard for 90% of strategic decisions and engage Deloitte for the regulated, audited, or large-scale transformation work.
For regulated-industry transformations, for engagements that need an audit-grade methodology and paper trail, for global multi-region rollouts, and for any decision where the named-firm credibility is part of the deliverable. SynthBoard is a thinking instrument, not a delivery footprint.
SynthBoard is free to start; paid tiers run low double-digit dollars per month for most operators. A Deloitte engagement typically starts in the high six figures and can run into the tens of millions for multi-year transformations. The two products are not in the same unit-economics frame.
No on-site delivery team, no audit-grade methodology certification, no global rollout capacity, no regulatory liaison, no managed services or staff augmentation. SynthBoard is a multi-agent thinking room. Deloitte is a multi-thousand-person delivery firm.
Yes — and it is one of our best-fit pre-engagement uses. A SynthBoard session run before the RFP sharpens the brief, surfaces the questions the partners will probe, and gives you a baseline view to evaluate proposals against. Most users tell us it saves more in scoping cycles than the SynthBoard subscription costs for a year.
Adjacent decisions, audiences, and methods inside SynthBoard.
The pure-strategy comparison.
ExploreThe umbrella consulting-firm comparison.
ExploreHead-to-head with a generalist consultant.
ExploreTransformation calls a Deloitte team would frame.
ExploreThe full comparison hub.
ExploreStress-test a Deloitte roadmap with a synth panel.
ExploreConvene 24 expert Synths to debate it across rounds. Free to start. No card.