Quickstart
SynthBoard turns one question into a board of AI advisors. Here is how to run your first session in under two minutes.
Four steps#
- 1
Ask your question
Specific beats vague. “Should we launch a free tier?” beats “marketing ideas.” The intake asks only what it actually needs — what you have tried, what is at stake, what your gut says — and drafts a decision brief from your answers.
- 2
Review the staffed board
The brief staffs the right advisors for the question automatically — you see who is seated, why, and what the run will cost before anything is charged. Want a specific expert in the room? Pin them. Pick 2–12 synths per session — Free up to 3, Pro up to 5, Max up to 8, Ultra up to 12.
- 3
Or take one expert aside
Not every question needs a full board. The Consult is a 1-on-1 with a single named expert — conversational, billed per turn, with composed documents (a memo, an email, a plan) when the ask calls for one.
- 4
Run and read the memo
The board researches, debates with genuinely opposed positions, and delivers a decision memo — the verdict, its confidence, the conditions that would flip it, and the strongest dissent. When something changes later, reconvene the same board as Round N+1.
Beyond the web UI#
Everything you can do in the browser is also available from Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, ChatGPT, and every other MCP-native client — and from automation platforms like Zapier and n8n through the REST API and webhooks. Same engine, same credits, same synths.
# Run a board over the REST API
curl https://synthboard.ai/api/v1/sessions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sb_live_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"question": "Should we launch a free tier?",
"session_type": "boardroom", "mode": "decision"}'
# Poll until done, then read the memo
curl "https://synthboard.ai/api/v1/sessions/{id}?wait_ms=60000" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sb_live_..."