For CTOs

For CTOs who make architecture decisions in front of a whiteboard.

BoardSnap is an iOS app that turns whiteboard photos into structured summaries and action plans in ten seconds. For CTOs, that means architecture sessions, technical strategy discussions, and org design reviews produce durable artifacts instead of disappearing when someone leaves the room.

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

What hurts today

Architectural decision records (ADRs) should capture why you decided what you decided — but nobody writes them up after the whiteboard session that actually produced the decision
Engineering all-hands where you diagram the technical roadmap on the board produce nothing your team can reference the next week
System design reviews generate great feedback that doesn't make it into the implementation plan
Technical due diligence sessions for investors or acquirers require re-explaining the architecture from memory because the source materials are whiteboard photos
Build-vs-buy discussions, vendor evaluations, and platform decisions get made in a room and poorly documented after
Every engineering reorg or team topology change starts as a whiteboard diagram that never becomes a clean artifact

How BoardSnap helps

Snap an architecture session and get a structured description of system components, data flows, and technical decisions — ready to paste into an ADR or RFC
Technical roadmap boards produce a prioritized initiative list with open/in-progress/done status — shareable to the engineering org before the all-hands ends
Brand-aware AI writes summaries in your company's technical language — not generic software consulting prose
Pin your current technical strategy and architecture principles so every future board chat already knows your constraints and choices
System design review boards capture the feedback and open questions as action items — nothing falls through the gap between 'we discussed it' and 'it's tracked'
Offline queue handles the server room, the conference basement, and every other place where CTOs do their best whiteboarding with no signal

A day with BoardSnap

Architecture decision
Draw the proposed architecture, the alternatives you rejected, and the key trade-offs. Snap. BoardSnap produces a structured summary that becomes the first draft of an ADR — including the 'status: decided' action item.
Technical strategy session
Map the platform bets, the build/buy decisions, and the sequencing on the board. Snap. The output is a structured technical strategy summary you can share with your engineering leads or include in a board deck.
Engineering all-hands
Whiteboard the technical roadmap for the team. Snap mid-session or at the end. Every engineer gets the same structured summary — no 'what did the CTO actually say?' Slack threads after.
System design review
A senior engineer presents their design on the board. You annotate with feedback. Snap. BoardSnap captures the design, the feedback, and the open questions as distinct action items.
Due diligence prep
Draw the technical architecture for investors or acquirers. Snap. The summary reads like a polished technical brief — because it was generated from the actual source of truth, not reconstructed from memory.

Features that matter for ctos

Diagram-aware AI

BoardSnap AI reads architecture diagrams — component boxes, API boundaries, data flow arrows, and layered system maps. It produces structured descriptions, not just a transcription of whatever text is on the board.

Brand-aware AI

Paste your engineering handbook or architecture principles URL. BoardSnap AI calibrates its output to your technical language — your microservices are called what you call them, not what a generic summary would.

Pinned context

Pin your system architecture overview or technical strategy doc. Every board chat already knows your stack, your constraints, and your guiding decisions — the AI doesn't start from zero each session.

Projects per domain

Infrastructure, platform, product eng, and security boards all live in separate projects. Each has isolated history and context — no noise between technical domains.

Tri-state action items

Architectural decisions have follow-through: RFCs to write, tickets to file, vendors to evaluate. BoardSnap tracks them as open/in-progress/done with subtasks — the same way your team tracks engineering work.

Frequently asked

Can BoardSnap capture a complex distributed systems diagram accurately?

BoardSnap AI is trained to interpret whiteboard diagrams — boxes, arrows, swimlanes, labels, and annotations. It produces a structured written description of the system components and relationships, not just a photo caption. Complex diagrams produce richer output than simple lists.

How does BoardSnap handle technical terminology specific to our stack?

Paste your engineering handbook, architecture docs, or even your GitHub README URL into the project settings. BoardSnap AI learns your stack's naming conventions, your service names, and your technical vocabulary — so the summary reads like an engineer on your team wrote it.

Is the content secure? We discuss proprietary architecture.

BoardSnap processes images through secure API calls. The app is iOS-native and does not store board images on device beyond the session. Check boardsnap.ai/privacy for the full data handling policy.

Can I use BoardSnap to prepare for technical investor due diligence?

Yes — and it's particularly useful for this. Map your architecture, your technical moat, and your infrastructure choices on the board. BoardSnap produces a clean technical summary that serves as source material for your architecture slide and due diligence documentation.

What's the best way to share a board summary with my engineering team?

Copy the summary text from BoardSnap and paste it into Slack, Notion, Confluence, or your team's documentation system. The tri-state action list copies cleanly into any markdown-friendly tool.

Built for ctos who ship.

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

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