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For Founders

Run your hardest decisions through a boardroom you don't have yet.

Most founders are six months from PMF and six years from a real board of directors. SynthBoard convenes 24 expert Synths on demand to stress-test the calls that decide whether you survive.

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What you get

Convene a board in 90 seconds

Pick a question, pick a session mode, and 5-7 Synths debate it across rounds. No scheduling, no calendar tetris with advisors you haven't recruited yet.

Hold positions under pressure

Synths don't just agree with you. They take sides, argue with each other, and the synthesis preserves the strongest minority opinion alongside the consensus.

Carry the call forward

Outcomes save to your action plan. The Boardroom remembers the call you made and what happened next, so the next debate has receipts.

Questions people ask

Real questions. Multiple expert perspectives. Every time.

“Should I take this acqui-hire offer or push to product-market fit?”

“My co-founder wants 60/40 split — accept, negotiate, or walk?”

“We can hire one of: senior engineer, founding designer, or first salesperson. Which?”

“Is this fundraising round at $8M valuation a trap?”

“Should we pivot to enterprise or double down on PLG self-serve?”

Your Expert Team

Each expert thinks independently — they won’t just agree with each other.

The Strategist

The Strategist

Maps competitive dynamics and strategic options across multi-year horizons.

The CFO

The CFO

Pressure-tests unit economics, runway, and capital allocation.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

Questions every premise. Finds blind spots others miss.

The Empath

The Empath

Reads the emotional, cultural, and team dynamics behind the decision.

The Growth Hacker

The Growth Hacker

Finds asymmetric distribution wins on a bootstrap budget.

What you’ll get

A synthesized recommendation from your team of experts — not just opinions, but structured analysis.

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5 experts analyzed
Synthesis Complete
Consensus Score64%

Moderate Agreement

Key Recommendations

Equity split is rarely the actual disagreement — surface what each co-founder thinks is unfair
Anchor the negotiation to vesting + acceleration, not headline percentage
A clean walk today probably costs more than a 5-point swing on the cap table

Synthesized Recommendation

Negotiate to 55/45 with vesting acceleration on a defined milestone, not a clean accept or walk. The Skeptic flags that walking burns optionality you may need in 6 months.

Full analysis continues with detailed reasoning, trade-offs, and next steps...

Watch Out For

A 60/40 split with no acceleration is worse than 50/50 with milestone-based catch-up
If trust is gone, no equity number fixes it — that's a co-founder breakup, not a negotiation

Expert Opinions

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The Skeptic
“Founders bring me the question they want validated. I give them the question they should be asking instead. That's usually where the real decision is hiding.”
The Skeptic — Assumption stress-testThe Skeptic, on what most founder sessions reveal

Why SynthBoard for this

Honest, not flattering

No sycophancy. Synths will tell you the equity ask is reasonable AND that your reluctance to grant it is the actual problem.

Free where it matters

250 bonus credits at signup + 150/month free forever. Most founder questions cost 8-15 credits to fully analyze.

Faster than an advisor call

No scheduling, no recap, no waiting for a callback. Boardroom session start-to-synthesis in under five minutes.

Cross-session memory

The Boardroom remembers last quarter's pivot debate when you bring it the hiring question. Decisions compound.

Common questions

The questions people ask before they sign up.

I'm solo and pre-revenue. Is SynthBoard too much?

No — solo pre-revenue is when SynthBoard pays off most. You have no co-founder to argue with, no advisors to ping, and the cost of a wrong call is 100% of your runway. The free tier handles 8-12 substantial decisions per month.

How is this different from asking ChatGPT?

ChatGPT gives you one perspective that tends to agree with however you framed the question. SynthBoard runs 5-7 Synths who hold different positions and argue across rounds — the synthesis preserves the dissent, not just the consensus. For decisions you can't un-make, the difference is the whole game.

Can I bring my actual board of advisors into a session?

Not into the session itself — Synths are AI personas, not chat with real humans. But every session generates a shareable link with the full debate. Most founders run the Boardroom session first, then share the synthesis with their real advisors to anchor the conversation in evidence.

Will it know my company context?

Yes — over time. The first session you describe your situation; subsequent sessions inherit that context. Cross-session memory + connected tools (Linear, Stripe, Calendar) means by month two, the Boardroom understands your business better than most advisors.

What if the synthesis says something I disagree with?

Good. That's the design. Read the dissent — the minority opinion that didn't win consensus. If you still disagree, the Boardroom just gave you the strongest counter-arguments you'll face from your future investors, partners, or customers. Even being right gets easier when you know exactly why.

Is my data used to train models?

No. Your sessions, prompts, and synthesis content are not used for model training. Standard SOC 2-aligned practices, full controls in account settings.

Keep exploring

Adjacent decisions, audiences, and methods inside SynthBoard.

Founders advisor playbook

The full role-specific advisor angle, including what to ask the Boardroom your first week.

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AI for fundraising decisions

The decision page for the call most founders need help with first.

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AI for pivot decisions

When the data says one thing but your gut says another.

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Replacing the advisory board you haven't built yet

Why convening a Boardroom is what most pre-Series A founders actually need instead of recruiting advisors.

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The AI Boardroom

The full mechanic — how 24 Synths debate any question across structured rounds.

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AI pre-mortem method

The single highest-leverage session for any founder making a big call.

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Built for the way you actually make decisions.

250 bonus credits at signup. 150 free every month. No card required.

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