For COOs

For COOs who run organizations from the whiteboard.

BoardSnap is an iOS app that turns whiteboard photos into structured summaries and action plans in ten seconds. For COOs, that means operational strategy sessions, org design reviews, and cross-functional leadership planning produce clean written artifacts — the decision records and execution plans your organization runs on.

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

What hurts today

  • Operational strategy sessions produce the most important decisions in the organization — and nobody documents them cleanly enough to hold leaders accountable
  • Org design discussions that involve structure changes, reporting line adjustments, and team charter revisions require a precise written record — verbal summaries cause real organizational harm
  • Cross-functional operating cadence design sessions produce commitments between functions that evaporate without a written operating model
  • Headcount and resource planning sessions produce allocation decisions that should live in a clean written record — not reconstructed from meeting notes
  • OKR planning sessions where leaders are negotiating priorities and trade-offs produce verbal agreements that get re-interpreted in execution
  • Operational reviews where you're diagnosing performance gaps and prescribing interventions need to produce a written intervention plan, not just a conversation

How BoardSnap helps

  • Snap an operational strategy session and get a structured written summary — strategic choices, leadership assignments, resource implications, and open decisions — the operating plan first draft
  • Org design sessions produce a written summary of the proposed structure, the rationale, and the implementation steps — precise enough to share with HR and legal
  • Cross-functional operating model discussions produce a written operating agreement — which function does what, what the handoffs are, what the escalation path is
  • OKR planning sessions produce a structured OKR draft — objectives, key results, owners, and dependencies — the document that drives quarterly execution
  • Operational review boards produce a structured performance summary with an intervention plan — what's underperforming, why, and what changes as a result
  • Brand-aware AI writes operational summaries in your organization's language — your functional naming, your performance framework, your operating model vocabulary

A day with BoardSnap

  1. Operational strategy

    Map the operational priorities, the resource implications, and the sequencing. Snap. BoardSnap produces a structured strategy summary that becomes the leadership brief — decisions made, owners assigned, trade-offs acknowledged.

  2. Org design review

    Draw the proposed structure — reporting lines, team charters, role clarifications. Snap. The structured summary is the draft org design document — precise enough for HR review and organization-wide communication.

  3. OKR planning

    Negotiate the organizational OKRs with functional leaders at the board. Snap. BoardSnap produces a structured OKR draft — objectives, key results, owners, and the inter-OKR dependencies.

  4. Operational review

    Diagnose the performance gaps — what's red, why it's red, what the intervention is. Snap. BoardSnap produces a structured operational review summary — performance by area, root causes, and a prioritized intervention plan with owners.

  5. Board prep

    Structure the board narrative — the key operational metrics, the strategic progress, the decisions needed from the board. Snap. The narrative outline starts from the actual operational reality, not from last quarter's slide deck.

Features that matter for coos

Brand-aware AI

Paste your organization's operating model documentation or your leadership principles. BoardSnap AI learns your organizational language, your performance framework vocabulary, and your strategic framing — operational summaries sound like they were written by someone who runs this organization.

Projects per operating cycle

Each quarter or operating cycle gets its own project. The full arc of operational decisions, OKR progress, and org design sessions lives in one searchable place.

Pinned context

Pin the company's OKRs, the operating model, or the board's strategic priorities. Every session already knows the organizational context — follow-up questions get answers grounded in the actual operating framework.

AI chat per project

Ask synthesis questions across the operating cycle: 'what operational risks have we identified this quarter?' 'what were the recurring themes in our functional reviews?' The AI synthesizes the full quarter's board history.

Offline queue

Board off-sites, leadership retreats, and field visits. BoardSnap queues on-device and processes when signal returns — operational decisions made in the field are documented the moment they happen.

Frequently asked

Can BoardSnap help document org design decisions for HR and legal review?

BoardSnap produces a precise written description of the org structure as drawn on the board — reporting lines, team charters, role changes, and the rationale. It's the first draft that HR and legal review, not the final legal document. Edit and format for the specific audience from the structured output.

How does it help with OKR planning across leadership?

Run the OKR planning session at the whiteboard with your functional leaders — negotiate objectives, agree on key results, map the dependencies. Snap. BoardSnap produces a structured OKR draft organized by function with the inter-OKR dependencies flagged. The document your planning system needs starts from the board.

Is it useful for operational reviews with large amounts of performance data?

For operational reviews with mixed boards — performance metrics alongside diagnostic analysis and intervention planning — the richer the annotation on the board, the richer the output. Metric-heavy boards with clear annotations (why this metric is red, what the intervention is) produce detailed structured summaries.

How do I use BoardSnap for board-level communication?

Snap the board prep session — the narrative logic, the key metrics, the decisions the board needs to make. BoardSnap produces a structured narrative outline that serves as the deck skeleton. The board presentation builds from operational reality, not from last quarter's template.

What's the privacy situation for highly sensitive operational discussions?

BoardSnap processes images through secure API calls and does not retain images on device beyond the session. For organizations with specific data classification requirements, review the privacy policy at boardsnap.ai/privacy and ensure it meets your organization's standards.

Built for coos who ship.

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

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