For non-executive directors, portfolio leaders & multi-client advisers

Better board work, in less time.

Walk into every meeting better briefed, with papers you have already reviewed — produced in a fraction of the hours they take you today. A guided AI assistant, private and governed, that meets you wherever you start. The result comes first; the technology stays in the background.

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The problem

Several mandates. Real exposure. No support.

You sit on three boards and advise two more. No one manages your diary. No one drafts your replies. And the AI everyone tells you to use carries a liability that lands on you personally — one mandate's confidential data in a public tool, one prompt that crosses a wall it never should.

You get the worst of both: the admin load of an executive with none of the executive support, and a powerful tool you can't safely turn on. We fix both at once.

What you get

An assistant that does the work — built, governed and run for you

Not a tool with your best wishes attached. A guided assistant — through Claude — configured to your mandates, that reads, drafts and prepares so you don't have to, with the rules and audit trail built in. We build it with you, one-to-one, and keep it running. The result lands on your desk ready to review.

And it doesn't matter how technical you are. Some of the most effective directors we work with were, until recently, printing off their emails to read them. That is a starting point, not a problem — you stay the decision-maker; the system does the legwork.

Build

Configured to your roles, your data, your voice — with you, not at you.

Govern

Boundaries, controls and audit designed in, not bolted on.

Run

Managed, diagnosed and supported — so it stays safe over time.

Seen in the room

Real rooms. Real reactions.

We don't publish case studies — our clients value discretion as much as you do. But the moments below happened, in live sessions, and are recorded in our own engagement logs. Names available privately, on request.

Seconds

For a live board pack to surface its three biggest EBITDA challenges — in front of the board that owned it. The question that landed hardest: "What will investors kick up from this pack?"

Hours

From a finance team's first licences to board-ready analysis they produced entirely on their own.

0

Client names published — ever. References are given privately, one-to-one, on request.

You are the future… I can't believe I'm having the chance, at my vintage, to be on the cutting edge.

Thirty-year industry veteran, during a working session

That's exactly what I'm looking for.

Chief executive, global professional services firm — on the personal build

The confidence that comes with third-party checks — a mirror held up to your own work by something that isn't yourself, but is entirely under your control.

Former retail group executive, now portfolio adviser

Quotes are verbatim from recorded sessions and same-day emails, lightly trimmed, shared with roles anonymised — the same confidentiality we'd extend to you.

Reviewing a session transcript, the system flagged — unprompted — that one client's set-up had been mentioned in another client's call. It raised the boundary before anyone had noticed.
A real catch, from a live engagement log. That is governance working.
Governed by design

Governance is the product, not the disclaimer

For a director, "humans decide" is the standard you are held to. Every system we build keeps you in the chair — AI drafts, proposes and summarises; it never sends, never commits, never acts without your explicit say-so. And every mandate is sandboxed: Board A's papers never inform a draft for Board B. The isolation is by design, not by your discipline. You stop being the firewall.

  • Humans decide. The system proposes; you dispose. Nothing leaves without your hand on it.
  • Auditable by design. Every action logged, timestamped and traceable — the trail a board expects.
  • Sealed mandates. Working on Client A, the system cannot see Client B — and if contexts ever risk mixing, it stops and flags it to you.
  • Defensible. When a fellow director or a regulator asks how you use AI, you have a clear, governed answer.
  • Private & at your pace. Built one-to-one, in confidence, with no audience and no cohort.
The assistant you don't have

The executive assistant a non-exec never gets

Executives have an EA. Non-execs, advisers and portfolio leaders rarely do — yet the inbox, the diary, the drafting and the endless files are just as relentless. Your assistant fills that gap. It never sends, never commits — it hands you the finished work and you decide.

  • Inbox & email — the urgent surfaced, the noise filed, replies drafted in your voice, waiting for your sign-off.
  • Diary & briefings — meetings triaged, conflicts flagged, a dossier ready before you walk in.
  • Filing & tidy-up — documents read, named and filed automatically, so the system can find anything in seconds.
  • Daily brief — what matters today, in one place, every morning.
  • Your network & pipeline — who you owe a note, who you've gone quiet on, and staying current on the sectors your boards care about. The discipline an ex-CEO never had to learn, handled quietly.
The craft

It sounds like you. You talk, it works. And you learn to drive it.

A generic AI sounds generic, and a board reader spots it instantly — so we tune the system to your voice until a drafted email reads as yours. You don't type: you speak, naturally, and it captures your intent. And we don't leave you dependent on us. You learn to design the loop — a system that finds the work, does it, checks itself, and brings you the result to approve. Your job becomes defining what good looks like. That stays yours.

Your voice, captured

The system learns how you write and holds the line under pressure — long replies, sceptical recipients, formal proposals.

Voice-first

Speak long, mid-thought, unedited — it captures your intent, not just your words. No menus, no syntax, nothing to master.

From prompting to loops

Set the system going and it coordinates the steps — finds, drafts, checks — then brings the result back for your decision.

Taught personally — never a webinar. No course, no cohort, no recorded module. We sit down one-to-one, build it around your mandates, and train you on the controls at your pace, on your material, in confidence. Then we keep it running: diagnostics, guardrails kept current, and a direct line when something needs a human.

Who it's for

Built for a specific kind of leader

  • Non-executive directors and chairs holding multiple board seats.
  • Portfolio executives and advisers juggling several mandates with no support team.
  • Consultants handling confidential customer data across multiple clients.
  • Senior leaders for whom confidentiality is non-negotiable and reputation is the asset.

If you hold one role and want a chatbot, we are not for you. If you carry several mandates, have no support team, and need every one sealed off and governed — we are exactly for you.

How it works

Three steps to a governed system

A private call

A confidential conversation about your mandates, your risk, your way of working. Talk for 30 minutes.

Build & train

We design your sandboxed system and train you on it, one-to-one. You build it with us.

Run & support

We manage, diagnose and support it as it runs. You use it — and stay in the chair.

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Referral-led — never advertised References shared privately, on request Principle-led: humans decide, always
Start here

Start with a private conversation

No pitch deck, no obligation. A confidential call to understand your mandates and show you what a governed system — and a real assistant — looks like. If it fits, we build it. If it doesn't, you've lost half an hour and gained a clearer view of your own AI exposure.

If someone referred you, name them — referred enquiries are offered a preferential founding rate.

Confidential. Referral-led. No obligation.
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