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For Job Seekers

The offer expires Friday.
Convene your career council tonight.

Big career calls deserve more than a Reddit thread and your mom's advice. SynthBoard puts named experts — The Investor, The Strategist, The Empath, The Skeptic — on your decision, and the memo lands in about 6–10 minutes.

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In short

Yes. The Investor understands startup equity, The Strategist understands big-tech career ladders, and The Skeptic understands the realistic risks of both. Offer comparison, negotiation strategy, and timing the exit are all in scope.

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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.

Job Seekers

Example · Board of 3

Offer A: $180K base, established brand, slow ladder. Offer B: $140K + 0.5% equity, Series B, ambiguous role. Which?

Chief of staff

This one needs a board: The Empath, The Investor and The Strategist. 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 InvestorVC Partner
  • The StrategistCompetitive Expert

Asked first

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

They knowNot yetNot sure who

The board’s call

Counter at $165K + 0.4% equity at offer B. The Investor and Strategist see the equity as the real prize (Series B equity at 0.5% has a $300K-$3M expected value range).

The Series B equity is the headline economics — don't over-index on base. $40K cash gap is real but eclipsed by even a moderate equity outcome.

Confidence70 · Moderate

The Strategist disagreed

“"Ambiguous role" is a yellow flag — get scope, reporting line, and 90-day objectives in writing before signing”

First step Test what The Strategist flagged before you commit.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.

  • Should I take the title bump at my current company or hold out for an external move? — The Investor, up to 85 credits
  • I have a verbal offer pending and another interview tomorrow. Slow-roll the verbal or accept? — The Strategist, up to 85 credits
  • My current employer countered with a 20% raise. Stay, leverage, or use as proof for the next role? — The Skeptic, up to 85 credits

What you get

What she handles.
On this kind of call.

Compare offers like a portfolio

Two offers are never apples-to-apples. The Boardroom unpacks the trade-offs across comp, equity, brand, learning, and 5-year optionality.

Stress-test your negotiation

Before you send the counter-offer, run it past a board. The Skeptic rehearses the recruiter's likely responses so you're not surprised.

Time the exit

"Should I quit before I have the next offer?" "Should I tell my current manager?" "When is the right time to start applying?" A consult answers in about a minute.

Why SynthBoard

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

Free to start

150 credits every month + 250 to start, and talking to your Chief of Staff is free within a daily allowance. Nothing runs until you tap.

No advice-column groupthink

Reddit, Blind, and X all give you majority opinion. A board keeps the dissent on the memo — and sometimes the dissent is the right call.

Private by default

Your career decisions stay yours. Your rooms are private and not used to train models. Your manager, recruiter, and Blind don't see anything.

Faster than your career coach

A coaching session takes a week to book and $300+ to run. A consult takes about a minute and shows its price — up to 85 credits — before it runs.

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

Most job seekers under-negotiate by $10-50K because no one rehearses the counter with them. The Boardroom is the cheapest rehearsal you'll ever do.
The Investor VC Partner

Questions

Fair questions.
Straight answers.

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

Will this work for tech jobs specifically?

Yes. The Investor understands startup equity, The Strategist understands big-tech career ladders, and The Skeptic understands the realistic risks of both. Offer comparison, negotiation strategy, and timing the exit are all in scope.

Can I share the memo with my partner or family before I decide?

Yes. A board’s memo shares as a page anyone can read without an account. Send it to your partner so the conversation starts from the argument, not vibes.

What if my situation is non-standard (visa, two-body problem, etc.)?

Tell her the constraint — "I have an H-1B that transfers, but my partner's green card is sponsored by my current employer." She keeps it on file once you confirm it, and The Empath and The Strategist factor it in. Constraints make the analysis sharper, not weaker.

Should I use this before or after I have the offer?

Both. Before the offer: pressure-test whether to even apply. During interviews: prep for the salary negotiation. After the offer: compare, negotiate, decide. The highest-leverage moment is during negotiation — most candidates leave $10-50K on the table because they don't pressure-test their counter.

How does this compare to Levels.fyi or Blind?

Levels and Blind give you data points and crowd opinion. SynthBoard gives you the analysis — what to do with the data points. Pair them: use Levels for comp benchmarks, then ask a board what to do with the benchmark.

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.

Should I take the title bump at my current company or hold out for an external move?I want to pivot from PM to engineering manager — should I take a step backward in title?I have a verbal offer pending and another interview tomorrow. Slow-roll the verbal or accept?

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.