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SynthBoard

For product and engineering leaders

Your roadmap is a list of calls.
Argue them before planning.

Bring her the backlog, the vendor quote, the date sales already promised. She reads Linear, Jira and Notion when you connect them, brings in The Product Manager or The Engineer for one question, and seats a board when the call moves a quarter.

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Example. You write: “Planning is Monday. Should we build SSO ourselves or buy it, which three of our nine epics make Q4, and write the note to sales about the reporting delay.” She opens 3 rooms: Build SSO, or buy it? (The Engineer, up to 65 credits); Three epics for Q4, out of nine (The Product Manager, up to 65 credits); The note to sales on the delay (The Operator, up to 65 credits). Nothing runs until you tap.

Examples

The rewrite, the vendor, the hires.
Three calls before planning.

The ask as a product lead would type it, how she read it, who sat, and what came back. Examples written for this page, not recorded runs.

Pay down debt, or ship?

Work · Board of 3

Deploys take 50 minutes and the billing service caused three incidents last month. Sales wants usage-based pricing by January. I have six engineers. Do we spend Q4 on the billing rewrite or the feature?

Chief of staff

Six engineers, one quarter, two things that can’t both happen — worth a board. I’d seat The Engineer, The Product Manager and The CFO.

  • The EngineerTechnical Builder
  • The Product ManagerProduct Manager
  • The CFOFinancial Controller

The board’s call

Rewrite the metering part of billing first — usage pricing needs it — and ship usage pricing to five design partners in February.

The two overlap: usage pricing on today’s billing service adds a fourth source of incidents. Two engineers on metering for eight weeks unblocks both.

Confidence66 · Moderate

The Product Manager disagreed

“Sales promised January. February with five partners still breaks a promise — tell sales this week, not in December.”

First step Scope the metering rewrite with two engineersOct 9

Example · Board of 3 · up to 135 credits

Build or buy SSO?

Work · One expert

Enterprise prospects keep asking for SAML SSO. A vendor would cost us about $1,500 a month at our size; my lead estimates five weeks to build. Build or buy?

Chief of staff

The Engineer takes this: the five weeks, and what it costs to keep SSO running a year from now.

  • The EngineerTechnical Builder

Asked first

How many enterprise deals are waiting on SSO right now?

None signed1–23 or more

The call · The Engineer

Buy it now; revisit building when SSO revenue passes $20k a month.

Five weeks of a senior engineer costs about what a year of the vendor does, and SAML edge cases keep arriving after launch. Buying ships it this sprint, while two deals wait.

Example · One expert · up to 65 credits

Five mids or three seniors?

Work · One expert

Next year’s hiring budget is about $750k. Five mid-level engineers, or three seniors? The team is six, mostly juniors.

Chief of staff

The Operator can work this one: who unblocks a team of six juniors fastest.

  • The OperatorCOO

The call · The Operator

Three seniors. Hire two before Q1 planning and the third once reviews stop being the bottleneck.

Six juniors need review capacity before they need more hands. Five mid-levels would double the people waiting on the same two reviewers.

Example · One expert · up to 65 credits

What she handles

The backlog, the cut,
the date you can keep.

She reads the work where it lives, keeps the cut and its dissent on one page, and turns it into steps with owners.

Reads the backlog where it lives.

Linear or Jira for the work, Notion or Confluence for the specs, Slack for what sales promised. She reads until you allow writing; every write is a preview you confirm, on Pro and above.

Asked first.

When the answer depends on your system or your team, the expert asks before answering. Being asked is never charged.

The cut, with the dissent kept.

Which epics make the quarter, how sure the board is, what would bring a cut one back — and who argued for it.

One side chat per decision.

Keep the SSO call, the hiring plan and the incident review apart. Each one knows what the others hold.

Owners and dates, not a slide.

Each room ends in one first step with a date. They wait under Open until they’re done.

Share the memo before planning.

Send the board’s memo as a read-only link — the call and the dissent on one page, no account needed.

The experts

Your planning meeting,
with the hard questions asked first.

The Product Manager on scope, The Engineer on the date, The Customer on what users would actually miss, The Security Chief before the enterprise review. Board seats run on different AI models, so the argument isn’t one model agreeing with itself.

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 product leads ask before they bring her the first call.

Or see pricing · every use case

Can it read our Linear or Jira?

Yes. Connect them and she reads what a question needs — a project, an epic, the last sprint — and says what she read. She only reads until you allow writing, and a Linear issue or a Notion page is a preview you confirm. Writes are on Pro and above.

Will engineers trust an AI’s estimate?

They shouldn’t take it on faith, and the memo doesn’t ask them to. It shows the reasoning, a confidence that is never above 90, who disagreed and what would change the call — something your team can argue with, not a number to obey.

Can I share the call with my team?

Yes. A board’s memo shares as a read-only link anyone can open without an account, or exports as PDF or Markdown. Each person who wants their own thread needs their own account — there’s no shared team workspace.

One expert or a board — how do I know?

She suggests it. One expert takes most questions — a build or buy, an estimate, a draft. A board is for calls worth arguing: a quarter’s roadmap, a rewrite, a senior hire. Either way the card shows the price first.

What does it cost?

Free to start — 150 credits every month + 250 to start. Talking to her is free within a daily allowance. A consult’s card says up to 65 credits and a three-seat board’s says up to 135 credits; nothing runs until you tap, and a board never bills above its card.

Close to this

Topic

Product & technology

Build, buy, or wait. Argued by experts who disagree.

Decision

Prioritization

Five good ideas. One quarter. Get the cut argued.

Decision

Hiring

A wrong hire costs a year. Argue it before the offer.

Bring Monday’s planning to her first.
Start free, with one message.

Build SSO or buy it?Billing rewrite or usage pricing in Q4?Three seniors or five mid-level hires?

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