McKinsey-grade frameworks are world-class. The price tag and timeline are not. SynthBoard runs a multi-agent strategy room you can convene tonight — and bring the synthesis back to your partners.
Porter, 7S, scenario planning, market sizing — the synths argue them out live so you see the disagreement, not just the deck.
Convene a strategist, a CFO, a data scientist, an investor, and a skeptic in under a minute. No engagement letter required.
Every session ends with a consensus-scored recommendation, a watch-list, and an action plan you can ship to your team Monday morning.
Real questions. Multiple expert perspectives. Every time.
“Should we expand into the EMEA market or double down on North America first?”
“Is our SaaS pricing leaving money on the table at the mid-market segment?”
“Which two of these four product bets should we kill to fund the winner?”
“What is the steel-man case against the M&A target our board is excited about?”
“How would a top-tier strategy firm frame our market-entry sequencing?”
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 Skeptic
Questions every premise. Finds blind spots others miss.
The Data Scientist
Pulls the analysis behind every confident claim.
A synthesized recommendation from your team of experts — not just opinions, but structured analysis.
Strong Agreement
Key Recommendations
Synthesized Recommendation
Sequence EMEA entry through a UK beachhead in Q3, after closing the mid-market pricing gap in North America. Defer DACH until repeatable unit economics in the UK clear two quarters.
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Expert Opinions
“A great strategy deck is structured disagreement that resolved. The deck is the residue. SynthBoard skips the residue and gives you the disagreement live.”
A typical McKinsey engagement runs 8-16 weeks for a single workstream. A SynthBoard session is finished by the time your coffee is.
SynthBoard is free to start. A standalone strategy engagement at a top-tier firm typically clears $250k-$2M.
The synths are engineered to disagree until consensus is earned. You see the dissent, not a polished single-voice deck.
Run the same decision five different ways before you commit. McKinsey gives you one swing per engagement; SynthBoard gives you twenty.
The questions people ask before they sign up.
No, and we are not trying to. McKinsey brings senior partner judgment, deep industry research, on-the-ground implementation, and the political weight of a brand-name recommendation. SynthBoard is best used either before a McKinsey engagement to sharpen the brief, or instead of one for decisions that do not warrant the cost and timeline.
When you need an answer this week, not this quarter. When the decision is real but the budget is under six figures. When you want structurally adversarial input rather than a polished single-voice deliverable. Most founders use SynthBoard to make 80% of strategic calls and reserve consultants for the 20% that need named-partner accountability.
For board-mandated transformations, regulated-industry strategy resets, or any decision where the brand of the recommendation is half the value. Also for engagements that require dozens of partner-led interviews with your customers and competitors — SynthBoard cannot do primary research.
SynthBoard starts free, with paid tiers from low double-digit dollars per month. A McKinsey strategy engagement typically starts at $250k and scales into the millions. The unit economics are not the same product — but for the strategy-debate portion of the work, SynthBoard is roughly four orders of magnitude cheaper.
No on-site interviews with your team or customers, no proprietary industry-benchmark database, no implementation team that lives in your office for six months, no senior-partner reputation backing the recommendation, no change-management capacity. SynthBoard is a thinking instrument, not a delivery firm.
Yes, and many of our users do exactly this. Running a Boardroom session before the kickoff sharpens your brief, surfaces the questions the partners will probe, and gives you a baseline view to compare their recommendations against. Most users say it cuts the engagement's discovery phase in half.
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