For Coaches

Bring expert perspectives
to every coaching session.

Great coaches ask the questions that make clients think. SynthBoard runs a board on your client's decision before the session, so you walk in with the dissent your client is missing.

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In short

No — and the distinction matters. A board gives you expert perspectives on the call. Coaching gives the client the questions that turn those perspectives into a decision they own. Different layers.

Last reviewed October 1, 2026

An example

One ask, start to finish.
What comes back is a memo.

How a board takes a call like this: her read, who sits, what they ask first, then the call — with how sure they are, who disagreed and the first step.

Coaches

Example · Board of 3

My CEO client is wrestling with whether to fire her co-founder. What's the strongest case for and against?

Chief of staff

This one needs a board: The Empath, The Strategist and The Skeptic. The Empath reads the emotional, cultural, and team dynamics behind the decision. Each researches alone first, then they react to one another — and on a decision, two of them take opposed sides.

The EmpathPeople Advocate
The StrategistCompetitive Expert
The SkepticRisk Assessor

Asked first

Who does this land on hardest, and do they know yet?

They knowNot yetNot sure who

The board’s call

The case for firing is operational, the case against is reputational and emotional.

Operationally, the co-founder is a 6-month bottleneck — the cost is clear. Reputationally, mid-fundraise is the worst time to announce a co-founder departure.

Confidence60 · Moderate

The Skeptic disagreed

“If your client makes the call in anger after a specific incident, she'll regret it within 6 weeks”

First step Coach your client to separate the decision from the timing.this week

Board of 3 · up to 135 credits on the card · an example, not a recorded run

Other asks people bring here

Several asks in one message become several rooms, each with its expert and its own price on the card. Keep or drop any, then convene them together.

My founder client wants to take secondaries — what objections should I prepare him for? — The Strategist, up to 85 credits
My client wants to pivot but the board pushed back — how do I help her think through whether to escalate? — The Skeptic, up to 85 credits
I'm running a leadership offsite — what pre-mortem questions surface the most useful dissent? — The Ethicist, up to 85 credits

What you get

What she handles.
On this kind of call.

Pre-session prep

Before the call, run your client's decision past a board. You walk in knowing the strongest counter-argument they haven't considered.

The board’s call

The case for firing is operational, the case against is reputational and emotional.

Confidence60 · Moderate

What would flip it

A coached, premeditated transition over 60 days protects both the company and her future…

The Skeptic disagreed

If your client makes the call in anger after a specific incident, she'll regret it within 6…

First step Coach your client to separate the decision from the timing.this week

Multi-perspective framework

Use the memo as the structure for the session itself: "Here are the lenses we should examine this through, and where they disagree."

Build a coaching library

Every board leaves a memo. Over many clients, you build a library of how similar decisions were argued — and patterns emerge.

Why SynthBoard

Why SynthBoard for this.
Not one voice. A board.

Sharper sessions, less prep time

A board before a client call — it lands in about 6–10 minutes — replaces an hour of mental rehearsal.

Surfaces what your client won't say

Every board seats someone whose job is to argue against the obvious answer. You walk in with the objections your client is too close to articulate.

Pairs with your judgment

SynthBoard doesn't replace coaching — it gives you a sharper input. Your role becomes asking the right question with the right context.

- Reputationally, mid-fundraise is the worst time to…From the memo
- The "fire vs keep" frame is wrong — the question is…From the memo
The call: The case for firing is operational, the case against…You decided
The Skeptic: If your client makes the call in anger after a…The dissent
Operationally, the co-founder is a 6-month bottleneck — the cost…From the memoStill true?KeepNot quiteKeptShe uses it from here on

Client confidentiality first

Your rooms are private to your account and not used to train models. She keeps a fact on file only when you confirm it.

Who sits

The experts for this call.
Each one holds a position.

Your Chief of Staff proposes who sits for the call, and every board is built with someone whose job is to argue against the obvious answer. Name an expert and they take a seat; tell her who you want on your board and they sit by default. How many seats a board has depends on your plan.

People Advocate

The Empath

The plan works on paper. Now, who has to hear about it first, and from whom?

The Empath People Advocate

Best on: Layoffs, hard conversations, co-founder tension, team changes.
Won’t let you: Forget the people who have to carry the decision out.

Try asking The Empath

Start with

The EmpathOpen on every plan, Free included

Pick an expert

Hover, tap or tab throughSwipe, then tap one

GPT
Claude
Gemini
Grok

Seats are spread across model families: GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and more.

Questions

Fair questions.
Straight answers.

What people ask before they bring this call to a board.

Is this a replacement for coaching?

No — and the distinction matters. A board gives you expert perspectives on the call. Coaching gives the client the questions that turn those perspectives into a decision they own. Different layers.

Should I disclose to clients that I use SynthBoard?

That's your call. Some coaches treat it as internal prep, like reading the client's industry trade press. Others present it as a methodology asset and open a consult with the client as a structured exercise.

Can I share a memo with a client?

Yes. A board’s memo shares as a page anyone can read without an account. One way to use it: send it between sessions as homework — "Here is how the board argued your call. Which dissent feels most uncomfortable?"

Which mode works best for coaching prep?

There are no modes to pick; she sizes the room to the call. When the client has already committed mentally, ask for a board — it is built to argue against the obvious answer. For a narrower question, a consult with one named expert is often enough.

Will this work for executive coaches vs business coaches?

Both. Executive coaches bring leadership decisions and team dynamics; business coaches bring strategic decisions and pivots. The lineup adapts — The Empath and The CEO for executive coaching; The CFO and The Strategist for business coaching.

SynthBoard (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.