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How it works

From a first conversation to a dashboard your board relies on.

Every engagement is bespoke and built around what you already know. Nothing is required of you to start — the first file is built entirely from the outside. Here is the shape of it.

01 — The engagement

Four steps to the first file. Then it reads every day.

BRIEFING

A conversation, not a pitch

We explain what BoardBrain does; you tell us the company, the pressing points, and what you’d want investigated. We come with an initial point of view of our own — the conversation starts from the work, not a blank page.

FIRST FILE

We set out the value-creation path, and present the first intelligence dashboard

Thousands of documents on the company and its peer set — filings, transcripts and licensed research, most of it behind paywalls and licences a general assistant cannot reach — read a decade deep. Orders of magnitude beyond what any general AI does on demand, every fact traced to its source. No access to the company is required to begin.

REVIEW

We present — you react, with human judgement on both sides

Nothing ships unread: every file is challenged, red-teamed and signed off by a senior reviewer before it reaches you. Then we listen — what lands, what to sharpen, which competitors, how deep to go.

PUBLISH

We adapt, publish, and hand over the keys

We fold in your feedback, adjust the focus points and the peer set, and hand over the working dashboard. We teach you the panels and give the directors you choose access. From here, it never stops reading.

The dashboard, between meetings

After the first file, it never stops reading.

Every new filing, results release, IR statement, analyst note and transcript is pulled in and read the moment it lands. Never the press release on its own — always the interpretation: what it means, and the “so what” for the board and the chief executive, as if a senior banker and a strategist were sitting beside you.

And it is interactive. Ask it anything — a peer, a scenario, a number, a question you would put to the CFO — and the answer comes back drawn from thousands of documents, every claim traced to the filing line or transcript page it came from.

EVERY ITEM

Read through the thesis

Each news item is interpreted against the company’s value-creation thesis — not summarised, understood.

THE SO-WHAT

Written for the seat you hold

What it changes for the board, and the question to ask next — the reading a senior adviser would give you privately.

ASK ANYTHING

Answered from the evidence

Any question, any day, answered in seconds from the verified file — with the source shown, never asserted.

02 — What we read for

Four lenses, held at once.

No general model, and no single advisor, holds all four together. That combination is what produces a board-grade point of view, not a summary.

ACTIVIST

The value-creation case

Where value is trapped and exactly what would release it — the case the most-likely activist would build, so the board sees it first.

BANKER

The questions, and TSR

What analysts will press on, what they reward and punish — used to prepare the CEO and CFO for results, and for analyst and investor roadshows.

STRATEGIST

Strategy versus peers

The consulting view: growth, business-unit and competitive analysis, cost, effectiveness and AI — where the company can genuinely win, benchmarked against best-in-class.

BOARD

Board matters

The chairman’s most pressing issues, and a file tailored to each board member and committee — audit, remuneration, nomination.

03 — Where the value comes from

Four levers, from quick wins to the shape of the company.

RE-RATING

Quick wins the market rewards fast

Short-term levers — disclosure, narrative, low-hanging fruit — that close the gap between value and price. This is where BoardBrain can pay for itself many times over.

OPERATIONS

Operational improvement

The deeper value-creation work: growth, cost, effectiveness and AI — a consulting-grade view of the company, business unit by business unit.

CAPITAL

Capital allocation

How capital is deployed and returned — investment, balance sheet, buybacks and dividends — measured against the returns it actually earns.

PERIMETER

The perimeter of the company

The portfolio itself: which businesses to own, buy, sell or spin — the M&A and structural moves that reset the sum of the parts.

04 — Two levels of engagement
START HERE

Outside-in

Thousands of documents — filings, transcripts, licensed research, industry and pricing data, much of it behind paywalls and licences a general assistant cannot reach — read without any access to the company. No data room, no IT project. Already enough for a board-grade point of view.

PREMIUM

With your internal documents

You add your own material — strategy, plans, management information — and the reading sharpens immediately, held to the same source-traced standard and the same confidence.

05 — What you get

The point is the outcome, not the file.

Everything above serves five results a board and a chief executive can feel.

01

Faster re-rating

The gap between value and price, named and closed.

02

Better value-creation actions

The moves that create value, taken earlier — before anyone forces them.

03

Sharper board preparation

The independent view before every meeting, tailored to each seat.

04

Stronger roadshows

Results, analyst and investor meetings prepared for the questions that actually come.

05

Better alignment

CEO, board and investors working from one rigorous, shared view.

Test us on a company you know better than we do.

Name it. The first file is built before we call — then you judge the work against what you already know.

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