SynthBoard does not: your Chief of Staff sizes the room to the call — a consult with one named expert, or a board for the biggest calls, built with someone whose job is to argue against the obvious answer — and the answer comes back in the shape the question needs.
Glossary
Session Mode
A preset SynthBoard does not ask for.
In short
A preset configuration that shapes how agents behave in a multi-agent session — balanced analysis, contrarian review, red-teaming, brainstorming. Many multi-agent tools ask you to pick one up front.
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Where it shows up.
Bring it to one expert.
Ask one expert.
The CEO takes it — about a minute, and the card shows “up to 85 credits” before anything runs. Nothing runs until you tap.
They ask before they answer.
When the answer turns on something only you know, the expert asks before answering. Tap a chip, or ask for their best guess. Being asked is never charged.
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Related terms.
Term
Scenario Planning
A strategic methodology that models multiple plausible futures rather than attempting to predict a single outcome.
Definition TermSecond-Order Thinking
A reasoning discipline popularized by Howard Marks that requires asking "and then what?" after every first-order conclusion.
Definition TermStrategic Fork
A decision point where available paths diverge significantly and the choice is difficult or impossible to reverse once committed.
Definition TermStructured Disagreement
A decision-making approach where disagreement is deliberately engineered and preserved as valuable signal rather than suppressed.
Definition TermSunk Cost Fallacy
The cognitive bias of continuing to invest in a losing endeavor because of the resources already committed, even when the rational forward-looking analysis says to stop.
Definition GuideDecision intelligence, explained
The complete guide to making strategic calls with AI that disagrees on purpose.
Read the guide The benchMeet the experts
24 named experts, each with a point of view of their own.
Meet themSynthBoard (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.
