SynthBoardvsPerplexity

Perplexity finds the facts.
A board makes the call.

Perplexity is the best way to get a cited answer from the web. A decision needs more than facts: someone to weigh them, someone to argue the other side, and a record of what you chose. That is what SynthBoard does — and its experts look things up too.

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PerplexityAI search

What it’s good at

Fast, cited answers from the live web
Research across many sources
A choice of models

SynthBoard’s experts search the live web too, when a call needs current facts.

SynthBoardYour chief of staff and her experts

What a board adds

Named experts who hold a position, on different AI models
On a decision, two are assigned opposite sides
The call, how sure the board is, and who disagreed and why
Your world on file, work and home apart, and a first step with a date

24 named experts on the bench

One call, side by side

Same question.
A different kind of answer.

A business call, typed the way a person types it: the board’s run, next to the shape of what Perplexity would hand back. An example, trimmed for length.

Launch in Germany this year?

Work · Board of 3

We sell scheduling software to dental clinics in the UK: 300 clinics at £90 a month. Should we launch in Germany this year, or win more of the UK first?

Chief of staff

Your board is seated: The Strategist, The Regulator, The CFO. They read the brief first, then research, then argue it out.

The StrategistCompetitive Expert
The RegulatorCompliance Expert
The CFOFinancial Controller

The board’s call

Not this year. Win more of the UK first, and run a ten-clinic German pilot in the spring to learn what a full launch needs.

Germany means German-language support, a data-protection review and a new sales motion, all before the first euro. Your 300 UK clinics bring in £27k a month; the cheapest growth is the UK clinics you haven’t reached yet.

Confidence63 · Moderate

The Strategist disagreed

“If a rival gets to Germany first, you enter second, and second is expensive. Start the pilot this quarter, not in spring.”

First step List twenty German clinics to approach for the pilotby Oct 15

Example · Board of 3 · up to 135 credits

The table

What you get
on a hard call.

Where Perplexity has something close, it gets the credit.

SynthBoard compared with Perplexity
What you get	SynthBoard	Perplexity
Several named experts on one questionA consult with one expert, or a board with several	Yes	No
Experts assigned to argue opposed positionsOn a decision, at least two take opposite sides	Yes	No
Seats spread across AI model familiesNot one lab’s habits on every seat	Yes	Partly
The dissent kept in the final answerWho disagreed, why, and what would change the call	Yes	No
The answer in the shape the question needsA decision, a plan, a comparison, a forecast, the written piece	11 shapes	Partly
Remembers what you decidedAnd names it first when an ask would reverse it	Yes	Partly
Work and personal kept apartA room is grounded only in its own context	Yes	Partly
Reads your tools; writes only after you confirmNotion, Google Docs, Gmail, Slack, Linear, HubSpot and more	Yes	Partly
An answer the same hourA consult takes about a minute; a board, about 6–10 minutes	Yes	Yes
Cited answers from the live webSynthBoard’s experts search when a turn needs current facts	Partly	Yes

Fair is fair

When to use Perplexity.

It does things SynthBoard doesn’t try to. Use it for these, and bring the hard calls to a board.

01
Cited research
A fast answer from the live web, with every source linked.
02
Checking a fact
A price, a date, a regulation: look it up and see where it came from.
03
Reading up first
Get the facts before you bring the decision to a board.

Questions

Fair questions.
Straight answers.

What people ask before they choose between SynthBoard and Perplexity.

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Does SynthBoard search the web?

Yes. When a question needs current facts — a competitor’s price, a regulation, recent news — the expert searches before answering and cites what it found. It is not a search engine; it uses search to ground a call.

Can I use both?

Yes: Perplexity to read up, SynthBoard to decide. Bring what you found into the thread and the experts build on it.

Is every question a board?

No. Your Chief of Staff answers the everyday herself. A question that needs one expert becomes a consult; only the biggest calls go to a board. 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.

What if the experts are wrong?

They can be: the experts are AI. That is why every memo shows how confident the board is, what would flip the call and who disagreed, and why the call stays yours.

Cited research

Checking a fact

Reading up first

Does SynthBoard search the web?

Can I use both?

Is every question a board?

What if the experts are wrong?

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