Playbook · Work and career
Should I move to another city or country for work?
For someone with a job offer or a reason to move far away, weighing the career against family, friends, money and the life they have now.
In short
A board of named AI experts — The Strategist, The CFO and The Empath — takes your situation, asks three things first, and hands back a decision memo: go, stay, or try it first, what it means for money and family, and what to settle before you say yes. You see one price before anything runs.
Before the board starts
What the board asks first.
What decides this: what the move does for your career and money, who it affects at home, and how easily you could come back.
Where to, and for what?
In your own words.
Who would move with you?
If it didn’t work out, could you come back?
A move you can undo is a smaller decision than one you can’t.
What you get back: A decision memo: go, stay, or try it first, what it means for money and family, and what to settle before you say yes.
A real run
One person’s version,
and what the board said.
I am 29, a software tester in a mid-size city, earning $68,000. My company offered me a QA lead role in another country, about a 6-hour flight away, at $85,000, but the cost of living there is about 25% higher. My partner works locally as a teacher and would have to find a new job. They want an answer in 3 weeks.
An example person, written for this page. Everything below is what the board delivered, word for word.
Stay in your current role unless the employer documents a genuine QA leadership mandate and materially protects your household from relocation and partner-employment risk. Do not accept the offer as currently presented.
What would change it: Reverse the verdict if, before 2026-10-27, your partner obtains a firm teaching offer or licensing approval and the employer documents genuine leadership authority plus relocation protection covering at least six months of household expenses.
The CFOStay put unless you have enough cash to cover the partner’s income gap and the QA lead role’s uncertain upside.
The StrategistStay put unless the QA lead role delivers genuine authority and your partner can realistically rebuild a career abroad.
The EmpathDo not relocate unless your partner has a verified employment, financial, and support plan before departure.
Send the employer your written conditions for considering the move
Questions
Fair questions
about this playbook.
What does running this cost?
Reading this page is free. Running it is a board: on Free it seats 3 experts and its card shows up to 135 credits before anything runs. A board never bills above its card. Nothing is charged until you confirm.
Is the example real?
Yes. The board above ran on a SynthBoard test account with the situation shown. The call, where each expert stood, what would change it and the first step are what it delivered, in its own words. The situation was written as an example; it is not a real person.
What happens when I run it with my situation?
You answer the same three questions with your own facts, then your Chief of Staff shows the board — The Strategist, The CFO and The Empath on Free, more seats on a paid plan — and its one price. The board researches, argues it out and hands back the piece, with the first step and what would change the call.
Can the experts be wrong?
Yes. They are AI and can be wrong. That is why every board seats someone whose job is to argue against the obvious answer, and why the piece says what would change the call.
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The playbookSynthBoard (synthboard.ai) is one place for your business, your life, and every hard call. Your Chief of Staff keeps what you tell her on file, and 24 named experts on different AI models take the calls — one expert for a consult, a board with opposed seats for the hard ones — and hand back a memo with the call, the dissent and the first move. How it works.