For Chief of Staff

For chiefs of staff who sit at the center of everything.

BoardSnap is an iOS app that turns whiteboard photos into structured summaries and action plans in ten seconds. For chiefs of staff, that means leadership planning sessions, executive off-sites, and cross-functional alignment boards produce clean written artifacts — the organization-wide action plan that only you can produce from the room where decisions actually happen.

Download on the App Store Free to start. Pro from $9.99/mo or $69.99/yr.

What hurts today

  • Leadership planning sessions where the exec team is at the board making real decisions produce the most important content in the organization — and the content nobody has time to document systematically
  • Executive off-site boards need to turn into an org-wide communication within 24 hours — and you're the one who has to write it from a board photo
  • Cross-functional alignment sessions where four VPs are agreeing on priorities produce verbal commitments that evaporate without a written record
  • Organizational design sessions — structure, reporting lines, team charters — happen at the whiteboard and should produce clean org design artifacts
  • Board prep sessions where you're structuring the narrative for the board meeting generate clear whiteboard thinking that needs to become a clean deck outline
  • The synthesis work — turning six leadership sessions' worth of board content into a coherent org plan — is the job nobody talks about and everybody needs

How BoardSnap helps

  • Snap a leadership planning session and get a structured written summary — decisions made, owners assigned, open questions — the foundation for the all-hands communication
  • Executive off-site boards snap to clean written summaries per session — the synthesis work happens during the off-site, not the week after
  • Cross-functional alignment boards produce a written decision record that all four VPs receive before they leave the room — no re-aligning the same conversation next quarter
  • Organizational design boards produce a structured summary of the proposed structure, the rationale, and the implementation steps — the org design artifact that boards and employees need
  • Board prep sessions produce a written narrative outline from the whiteboard — the story logic before it becomes a slide deck
  • Brand-aware AI writes summaries in your organization's language — your leadership's naming, your strategic framing, your company's internal vocabulary

A day with BoardSnap

  1. Leadership planning

    Leadership team at the board, making the quarter's priority decisions. Snap at the end. BoardSnap produces a structured decision record — what was decided, who owns what, and what's still open — the org communication starts here, not with a blank doc.

  2. Executive off-site

    Snap each session board at the off-site — strategy, culture, organizational design, key bets. Each board produces a structured summary. By day two, you're synthesizing from clean artifacts, not from notes and memory.

  3. Cross-functional alignment

    Four VPs agreeing on the organizational priorities and the resourcing trade-offs. Snap. Everyone gets the same written summary before leaving — the alignment is documented at the source.

  4. Org design session

    Map the proposed structure, the reporting lines, the team charters, and the open questions. Snap. BoardSnap produces a structured org design summary — the artifact that becomes the announcement memo and the implementation plan.

  5. Board prep

    Work through the board narrative on the whiteboard — the story structure, the key metrics, the asks, the decisions needed. Snap. BoardSnap produces a structured narrative outline that becomes the deck skeleton.

Features that matter for chief of staff

Brand-aware AI

Paste your organization's internal wiki, your leadership principles, or your company's strategic plan. BoardSnap AI learns your organization's language, your strategic framing, and your leadership vocabulary — summaries sound like they belong in the organization.

Projects per initiative

Each major organizational initiative or planning cycle gets its own project. Board history, pinned strategic context, and brand calibration all scoped per initiative — the full strategic arc is searchable.

Pinned context

Pin the company's strategic plan, the current OKRs, or the board presentation. Every board session already knows the organizational context — the AI chat gives grounded answers within the strategic frame.

AI chat per project

Ask synthesis questions across the entire planning cycle's board history: 'what were the recurring themes across this quarter's leadership sessions?' 'what organizational risks have we identified?' The AI synthesizes across all boards in the project.

Offline queue

Off-sites happen at retreats with spotty WiFi. BoardSnap queues every capture on-device and processes when signal returns — no lost boards from a critical leadership session.

Frequently asked

Can BoardSnap handle high-stakes executive sessions where accuracy matters most?

BoardSnap AI reads whiteboard content carefully and produces structured summaries of what's on the board. For high-stakes sessions, snap the board and immediately review the summary before the room clears — the visual verification step is fast and catches any misread. For truly critical decisions, pair BoardSnap with your own notes as a cross-check.

How does it help with the synthesis work across multiple leadership sessions?

Each board produces a structured summary in the project. The project AI chat can synthesize across the entire session history — 'what themes recurred across the off-site sessions?' 'what are the open organizational decisions?' The synthesis work happens through the AI, not through manually re-reading every summary.

Is BoardSnap useful for preparing executive communication from board sessions?

Yes — snap the planning session board, get the structured summary, and use it as the basis for the all-hands deck, the org announcement, or the executive update. The writing starts from a clean structured artifact, not from reconstructed memory.

How does the brand-aware AI help for an organization-wide communication?

Paste your company's internal communication style guide, your leadership principles, or your culture documentation. BoardSnap AI calibrates its summaries to your organization's voice and vocabulary — the output reads like it was written by someone who knows the company, not a generic business summary.

Can BoardSnap help with org design documentation?

Yes — snap the org design whiteboard with the proposed structure, reporting lines, and team charters. BoardSnap produces a structured org design summary that serves as source material for the announcement memo, the implementation plan, and the HR documentation.

Built for chief of staff who ship.

Snap a whiteboard. Ship the action plan. In ten seconds.

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