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Synthetic Advisory Board —
an advisory board, on demand.

For the calls you would take to a board you don’t have yet. Named AI experts argue the decision, each from their own seat, and hand back one call with the dissent kept — no recruiting, no equity, its price on the card before it runs.

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An example: a solo founder’s board, before anything runs — who sits, the ask, the price. How many seats a board has depends on your plan.

In short

What is a synthetic advisory board?

A synthetic advisory board is a panel of AI-powered expert advisors that operates like a human advisory board — multiple perspectives, structured disagreement, one recommendation — but available on demand. A human board takes months to recruit and costs equity; a synthetic one hands back its call in about 6–10 minutes, its price on the card before it runs.

The word synthetic is the point, not a disguise. The advisors are not impersonations of real people. They are archetypes — the strategist, the CFO, the skeptic, the customer — the roles you would recruit if you were building a real board from scratch. They are AI and can be wrong, so the memo shows their reasoning for you to check.

Who sits
Archetypes, not real people — 24 on the bench. Your Chief of Staff proposes the seats; name anyone you want.
How it runs
Each expert researches alone, then reacts once to the others. The seats are spread across AI models.
What comes back
A memo: the call, who disagreed and why, what would change it, and a first step with a date.
What it costs
No equity and no retainer. A board on Free reads about 95 credits on its card; one expert reads about 45 credits.

Two calls without a board

The board you don’t have yet.
Convened tonight.

A founder with an offer and a nurse changing careers — neither has advisors to call. Examples, trimmed for length.

An offer for the company

Work · Board of 3

I’m a solo founder: $9k a month in revenue, growing 6% a month, no investors and no board. A bigger competitor offered $600k for the company plus a job. Take it?

Chief of staff

This is the call a board is for, and you don’t have one yet: The Investor, The Lawyer and The Visionary. Each researches alone, then they react to one another — and on a decision, two of them take opposed sides.

  • The InvestorVC Partner
  • The LawyerLegal Protector
  • The VisionaryFuture Strategist

Asked first

Is the job part of the price — with a stay-or-forfeit clause — or separate?

Part of the priceSeparateNot in writing yet

The board’s call

Don’t sign at $600k. Counter at $900k, with the job outside the price and no more than twelve months tied to it.

At 6% a month the company is worth more in a year than this offer — if you can carry it a year alone. The retention terms decide whether the $600k is a price or a salary.

Confidence62 · Moderate

The Visionary disagreed

“The price isn’t the question. You haven’t said whether you still want to build this; if you do, no number is right.”

First step Ask the buyer for the retention terms in writingby Monday

Board of 3 · about 95 credits on the card · an example, not a recorded run

From the ward to product

Life · One expert

I’m 34, a nurse for ten years, and I want to move into health-tech product management. Take a junior PM role at a $20k pay cut, or do a part-time course first?

Chief of staff

One expert can take this: The Product Manager. They’ll ask what you have already done with a product team before they answer.

  • The Product ManagerProduct Manager

Asked first

Have you worked with a product team yet — even as the clinician they asked?

Yes, oftenOnce or twiceNever

The call · The Product Manager

Take the junior role — and ask for a clinical-product title, not a generic one.

Ten years on the ward is the rare part, and a health-tech team pays for it. A course teaches what the job teaches faster. The pay cut is real: ask whether it closes at the twelve-month review.

One expert · about 45 credits on the card · an example, not a recorded run

Why use one

Every role you’d recruit.
On call for any decision.

Sized to the question

Not every call needs a board. She answers the small things herself, puts one named expert on a question that needs one, and convenes a board for the biggest calls.

A memo you could hand a real board

The call, how sure the board is, what would flip it and who disagreed. Confidence drops with dissent and is never above 90.

They ask before they advise

A good advisor asks what only you know before giving an opinion. Tap a chip, or ask for their best guess.

Bring it to real people

The memo shares as a read-only page anyone can open — a co-founder, a mentor, the first real advisor you recruit — or export it as PDF or Markdown.

No equity, no retainer

Talking to your Chief of Staff is free within a daily allowance. A consult or a board shows its price on the card before anything runs.

Who sits

The board you would recruit.
Each one holds a position.

The archetypes people most often wish they had on call. She proposes who sits for your decision; name anyone you want on the board.

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 convene a board they don’t have yet.

What is a synthetic advisory board?

A synthetic advisory board is a panel of AI-powered expert advisors that operates exactly like a human advisory board — multiple perspectives, structured disagreement, one recommendation — but available on demand, with no equity, no scheduling, and no politics. Every session ends with a clear recommendation, the reasoning, and the dissents, all shareable.

Who is a synthetic advisory board for?

Anyone making strategic decisions. Founders pre-Series-A who do not yet have a board. Operators and executives who own a single-threaded decision. Consultants running structured reviews for clients. Professionals weighing high-stakes career and partnership choices. The mechanics — multiple perspectives, engineered disagreement, memory, governance — apply universally.

Is a synthetic advisory board trying to replace a real one?

For people who already have a real advisory board, no — it complements one. A synthetic board is a pressure test. Real advisors bring relationships, accountability, introductions, and judgment that AI cannot replicate. The synthetic board makes sure you arrive at the human boardroom with your best thinking. For the many people without a real advisory board, the synthetic board is the version that actually exists.

How is it different from just asking ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is one voice trained to agree with you. A synthetic advisory board is multiple voices with different roles, different incentives, and structural disagreement. A single model cannot genuinely contradict itself — a panel of advisors can. SynthBoard spreads a board’s seats across different AI models, so disagreement is real rather than theatrical.

How much does a synthetic advisory board cost?

Free to start — 150 credits every month + 250 to start. Talking to your Chief of Staff is free within a daily allowance. A consult or a board shows its price on the card before anything runs, and nothing runs until you tap. No card required. Compare to real advisors at 0.5–2% equity per year, consulting fees in the thousands, or executive coaches at $500+/hour.

Can I invite real humans into the synthetic board?

Not into the room itself — each person has their own account. What you bring them is the memo: it shares as a page anyone can read without an account, so co-founders, executives or real advisors see the call, the dissent and the reasoning. The AI advisors argue; your humans hold the gavel.

What decisions does it help with?

Strategic, operational, financial, technical, and personal — anywhere a single confident voice would be dangerous. Pivots, fundraising, pricing, hiring, vendor selection, M&A, product roadmaps, market entry, career moves, partnership decisions, investment analysis. The mechanics are universal; the panel is proposed for each decision, so a pricing call and a hiring call get different advisors.

Are the advisors impersonations of specific real people?

No. They are archetypal experts — strategist, CFO, skeptic, customer champion, ethicist, futurist — designed to embody the roles you would want on a real board. Each has a distinct remit, cognitive style, and argumentative voice. A board seats them on different AI models.

Next

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.

Your advisory board,
available tonight.

Should I take the acquisition offer?A junior role at a pay cut, or a course?Who should my first real advisor be?

It waits in her box after you sign up. Nothing is sent until you press send.