SynthBoardvsa strategy consultant

A deck arrives in weeks.
The argument, the same hour.

Strategy work is valuable when it brings research you cannot do yourself. Much of it is structured argument: the options, the case against, what would change the call. SynthBoard gives you that the same hour, and keeps it on file.

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A strategy consultantProfessional services

What it’s good at

Primary research and market access
A polished, defensible deliverable
Experience across many companies

A board’s memo is a sharper brief to hand a strategy firm.

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 a strategy consultant would hand back. An example, trimmed for length.

Go upmarket, or stay with small teams?

Work · Board of 3

Our project tool sells to teams of 5 to 20 at $12 a seat. Three companies with 500+ people have asked for SSO and an annual contract. Do we go upmarket, or stay focused on small teams?

Chief of staff

Your board is seated: The Strategist, The Sales Leader, The Skeptic. They read the brief first, then research, then argue it out.

The StrategistCompetitive Expert
The Sales LeaderChief Revenue Officer
The SkepticRisk Assessor

The board’s call

Serve these three as design partners, not as a new market: build SSO, sign annual contracts, and decide on upmarket after six months.

Three inbound requests are a signal, not a segment. SSO for paying design partners costs one feature; going upmarket means security reviews, procurement and a sales team before you know whether large accounts expand.

Confidence64 · Moderate

The Skeptic disagreed

“Design partners turn into roadmap owners. Three large logos can quietly steer a small-team product. Put the limits in writing.”

First step Send all three a design-partner offer with an annual pricenext Wednesday

Example · Board of 3 · about 95 credits

The table

What you get
on a hard call.

Where a strategy consultant has something close, it gets the credit.

SynthBoard compared with a strategy consultant
What you get	SynthBoard	Strategy firm
Several named experts on one questionA consult with one expert, or a board with several	Yes	Yes
Experts assigned to argue opposed positionsOn a decision, at least two take opposite sides	Yes	Partly
Seats spread across AI model familiesNot one lab’s habits on every seat	Yes	Doesn’t apply
The dissent kept in the final answerWho disagreed, why, and what would change the call	Yes	Partly
The answer in the shape the question needsA decision, a plan, a comparison, a forecast, the written piece	11 shapes	Yes
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	No
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	No
Primary research and market access	No	Yes

Fair is fair

When to use a strategy consultant.

They do things SynthBoard doesn’t try to. Hire them for these, and bring the hard calls to a board.

01
Primary market research
Customer interviews and market sizing done by people.
02
A formal deliverable
A deck for a board or investors that carries a known name.
03
Industry networks
Access to experts and executives across many companies.

Questions

Fair questions.
Straight answers.

What people ask before they choose between SynthBoard and a strategy consultant.

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Does SynthBoard write the strategy?

A consult can come back as a plan with steps, owners and dates, or as the written piece itself. A board returns a memo with the call, the conditions it holds under, who disagreed, and your first move.

What happens after the answer?

Your first move becomes a dated commitment, and what you decided stays on file for the next call.

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.

Primary market research

A formal deliverable

Industry networks

Does SynthBoard write the strategy?

What happens after the answer?

Is every question a board?

What if the experts are wrong?

Bring the call you keep putting off.

Bring the call
you keep putting off.