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SynthBoard

For Consultants

Pressure-test your recommendations
before your client does.

Independent consultants don't have a partner to bounce ideas off at midnight. SynthBoard puts 24 named experts one tap away to challenge your thinking and surface the objections your client will raise tomorrow.

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In short

That's up to you. Some consultants disclose it as a methodology asset; others use it purely as internal prep. If you share a memo, it is a read-only page your client opens without an account.

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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.

Consultants

Example · Board of 3

My client wants to enter the German market — is the GTM plan I'm about to present going to survive their board?

Chief of staff

This one needs a board: The Strategist, The Skeptic and The CFO. The Strategist maps competitive dynamics and strategic options across multi-year horizons. Each researches alone first, then they react to one another — and on a decision, two of them take opposed sides.

  • The StrategistCompetitive Expert
  • The SkepticRisk Assessor
  • The CFOFinancial Controller

Asked first

Has a competitor already made this move?

Yes, one hasNot that I knowWe’d be first

The board’s call

The pricing model holds up, but reframe the rationale: the CFO will reject "improves LTV" without unit-economics math.

The CFO will not accept a strategic argument without numerical backing — front-load the math. The 30% retention improvement claim needs a stated assumption, not a forecast.

Confidence72 · Moderate

The CFO disagreed

“If your client's CFO has rejected a similar pricing change before, the political cost outweighs the strategic upside”

First step Lead the slide with the unit economics, not the strategy.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.

  • I'm recommending a 30% headcount reduction — what objections should I prepare for? — The Skeptic, up to 85 credits
  • The CFO will push back on this pricing model — what's the strongest counter-argument? — The CFO, up to 85 credits
  • I've been hired to fix retention but I think the real problem is positioning. How do I reframe? — The Empath, up to 85 credits

What you get

What she handles.
On this kind of call.

Stress-test deliverables

Before sending the deck, run a board on it. The Skeptic, The CFO, and The Customer surface the holes you missed at 11pm.

Share the memo, read-only

A board’s memo shares as a page anyone can read without an account. Bring the board's call and its dissent to the client as the second opinion behind your recommendation.

Build a decision library

Every board leaves a memo, and what you confirm stays on file with its source. Over many engagements, that becomes your own record of how similar calls were argued.

Why SynthBoard

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

Catches blind spots before clients do

Every board seats someone whose job is to argue against the obvious answer. Better to lose the argument in your own room than to a client CFO with hiring authority.

Multi-perspective without billable junior team

Independent consultants get the McKinsey-style "team of analysts" benefit without hiring associates.

Client data stays yours

Your rooms are private to your account and not used to train models. Nothing leaves unless you share a memo.

Scales with your engagement count

What you confirm stays on file, so by your tenth client in a sector she starts from what you already know. Your thinking compounds.

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.

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.

In their words

A good consultant has someone to argue with. A great one has a room that disagrees. The Boardroom gives independents what partners take for granted.
The Strategist Competitive Expert

Questions

Fair questions.
Straight answers.

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

Will my clients know I used AI?

That's up to you. Some consultants disclose it as a methodology asset; others use it purely as internal prep. If you share a memo, it is a read-only page your client opens without an account.

How is this different from just using ChatGPT for client work?

ChatGPT gives you a single perspective that tends to agree with your framing. SynthBoard gives you the room — The CFO, The Skeptic, and The Strategist on different AI models, with opposed positions assigned on a decision. It argues with you the way a senior partner would.

Can I share a memo with a client who has no account?

Yes. A board’s memo shares as a page anyone can read without an account. It is read-only, and you can revoke the link at any time.

What do consultants bring to a board?

Pre-delivery stress tests, pre-mortems on a recommendation, client-persona questions ("how will the CFO respond to this?"), and competitive positioning. The pre-delivery stress test earns its keep fastest.

Does it work for fractional execs (CFO, CMO, CPO)?

Yes — fractional execs are one of the strongest fits. You carry senior-leader responsibility without a peer to test ideas against. A board gives you The CFO to argue the budget with and The Marketer to challenge the GTM plan.

Keep exploring

Nearby decisions, audiences and methods inside SynthBoard.

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.

Built for the way you actually make decisions.
Start free, with one message.

I'm recommending a 30% headcount reduction — what objections should I prepare for?The CFO will push back on this pricing model — what's the strongest counter-argument?I've been hired to fix retention but I think the real problem is positioning. How do I reframe?

It waits in her box after you sign up. Nothing is sent until you press send. Free to start — 150 credits every month + 250 to start. No card required, and nothing runs until you tap.