# For students and career changers

> The offer, the program, the loan, the field you want to move into. She keeps your situation on file, brings in the expert each question needs, and seats a board when the call shapes the next five years. Write in any language.

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## What this is for

Grad school or the offer, a startup or a safe job, a new field. Named AI experts argue your call with your numbers, and the dissent stays on the page.

## Example questions

- Fourth-year chemistry undergrad. I have a funded PhD offer ($36k stipend, five to six years) and a $78k job at a battery startup. I like research, but I’m not sure I want to be a professor.
- I’ve taught middle school for seven years ($54k). I want to move into UX research. A bootcamp is $14k and six months. Is that the right way in?
- A funded PhD or the industry job?
- Is a bootcamp the right way into UX?
- Ask for two more weeks on an offer

## Experts who fit this call

- **The Analyst** — Forecasts, buy or rent, budgets, and the math behind a big choice.
- **The CFO** — Pricing, runway, discounts, and a hire you can barely afford.
- **The Scientist** — Experiments, research claims, testing a risky assumption cheaply.
- **The Futurist** — Long bets, platform shifts, what AI changes in your industry.
- **The Designer** — Onboarding, a redesign, a confusing flow, what to cut from a screen.
- **The Empath** — Layoffs, hard conversations, co-founder tension, team changes.
- **The Skeptic** — Big bets, launches, and any plan the whole room already loves.

## Sample outcome

**Board confidence:** 63 (drops with dissent, never above 90)

**Recommendation:** Take the startup job and keep the PhD door open: ask the program to defer for a year.

### Key points

- You said you’re not sure about a professorship. A year at the startup tests the research you actually like — at $78k instead of $36k — and you go into the PhD knowing why.
- First step: Email the graduate coordinator about a one-year deferral — Monday.

### Watch-outs

- Funded offers don’t always defer. If this one won’t, you may be applying again from scratch.


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## About SynthBoard

One place for your business, your life, and every hard call. Your Chief of Staff keeps what you tell her on file, work and home apart, and answers what she can herself. When a call needs judgment she hands you a card for a room — a Consult (one named expert) or a Boardroom (opposed experts on different AI models who each research alone, then react once) — and nothing runs until you tap. A board's memo gives the call, the conditions, who disagreed and why, and a confidence that drops with dissent and is never above 90. The experts are AI and can be wrong; the call stays yours. Free to start, no card.

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