Laws change. Competitive landscapes shift. Boardside keeps your board positioned to respond — with independent daily intelligence, not whatever made it into the board pack.
Purpose-built for New Zealand. No credit card required.
Your board papers land 48 hours before the meeting. The rest of the time, you're governing without current information.
Bills move through Parliament. Select committees open and close. Regulations change. You find out when it's already too late to act.
Your competitive intelligence is whatever the CEO chose to include. As a director, you're responsible for decisions made on incomplete information.
The Companies Act is clear. Directors are expected to exercise informed judgement. "I didn't know" doesn't hold up when the information was available.
Most board tools solve the wrong problem. They manage documents and run meetings. None of them make sure you actually know what's going on.
Tell Boardside who you are: your sector, board role, and the legislation and competitors that matter. Takes about five minutes.
Automatically. Relevant legislation matched to your sector. Stakeholders suggested. PESTLE pre-populated from your briefings.
Every day, a fresh governance briefing — signals scored by urgency, legislation flagged, threats and opportunities surfaced. Ready before the commute ends.
Where Diligent manages your papers and Convene runs your meetings, Boardside tells you what matters — before it lands on your agenda. One platform, one source of truth, built specifically for New Zealand governance.
Boardside scans news, regulatory sources, and submitted articles every day — filtered to what's actually relevant to your entity. Signals are scored by urgency and relevance, surfaced as threats, opportunities, and regulatory developments.
No more forwarding PDFs. No more walking into a meeting underbriefed.
Boardside maintains a live database of NZ legislation — Acts in force, bills progressing through select committee, and recent amendments. On your first visit, it matches relevant legislation to your entity's sector profile automatically.
Governance intelligence, not legal advice.
Map every stakeholder on a live positioning matrix. Track domain occupation: who's winning the territory you care about, and how strongly. Four views: Positioning Matrix, Concentric Rings, Nodal Map, Domain War Map.
PESTLE analysis ranked and AI-synced from your latest briefings. Decisions and assumptions logged, timestamped, and auditable. Scenario modelling. Initiative tracking. Skills Matrix. Succession planning.
Upload PDFs and Word documents. Annotate with highlights, circles, freehand drawing, and sticky note comments. Generate an AI pre-board briefing pack from your latest intelligence signals.
An AI assistant that knows your board — your meetings, decisions, action items, signals, and strategy. Ask what changed since last meeting. Ask which initiative is most at risk. Get a direct, specific answer grounded in your actual board data.
Run meetings on the tools your board already uses — Zoom, Teams, Google Meet. When you're done, upload your minutes and Boardside's AI scans them, pulling out decisions, action items, owners, and attendees and filing them straight into your decisions log, action tracker, and registers.
No re-keying, nothing lost between meetings — the governance record stays current and searchable without changing how your board actually meets.
Conflicts of Interest register. Skills Matrix. Risk Appetite. Risk Register. Board Evaluation. Compliance obligations. ESG and climate disclosure tracking. Not because the auditor asked — because good boards run clean.
Boardside's AI runs in the background so you're never caught unprepared. Briefings generated every morning. Legislation matched to your sector automatically. Signals scored by relevance before you open the app. Your board data organised and ready — so when the question comes, you have the answer.
Boardside is being adopted by NZ boards across the private, not-for-profit, and iwi sectors. We onboard a small number of boards at a time — working closely with directors to build the governance intelligence platform New Zealand needs.
Every board is different, so every engagement begins with a short conversation. We show you the platform, understand your board, and size a plan that fits. No pressure, and no credit card to start.
Priced by the board, never by the seat. Your full board and your management team are included as standard.
Registered charities and not for profit boards are priced with a meaningful discount. Good governance should not be out of reach.
Several entities under one organisation scale cleanly, each with its own focused intelligence, billed together.
A 14 day trial with full access and personal onboarding, so your board can judge the value before committing.
No credit card to start. Every plan is sized in a short conversation, never a template.
Boardside is a governance intelligence platform for New Zealand board directors. It delivers a daily AI briefing, tracks NZ legislation relevant to your sector, turns your uploaded minutes into structured decisions and actions, and keeps your governance registers in one place — so your board governs with current information, not just whatever made it into the board pack.
Traditional board portals store documents, run meetings, and handle voting. Boardside does the board-management basics too, but adds the intelligence layer they don't have: daily AI governance briefings, a live NZ legislative radar, competitive intelligence, and strategy tools — telling you what matters before it reaches your agenda.
Yes. Boardside is NZ-first: it maintains a New Zealand legislative database, matches Acts and bills to your sector automatically, and writes minutes in New Zealand governance prose. It is designed for NZ company boards, charities, iwi entities, Crown entities, councils, and SOEs.
A pre-board briefing is a concise, current intelligence summary prepared before a board meeting — surfacing the regulatory changes, threats, opportunities, and signals relevant to your organisation. Boardside generates one automatically from your latest intelligence so directors walk in informed rather than reacting to the board pack on the day.
Boardside is priced per board, not per seat, so your whole board and management team are included rather than charged by the head. Registered NZ charities and not for profit boards receive a meaningful discount, and groups with several entities scale cleanly. Every engagement begins with a short demo and a 14 day trial with no credit card, so we can size the right plan for your board. Book a demo and we will walk you through it.
Yes. Boardside enforces board-level isolation: only invited members of a board can see that board's documents, data, or even that it exists. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, files are served via short-lived signed URLs, and access is controlled per board at the database level. Boards join by invitation only.
No — keep running meetings on the video tools your board already uses, like Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet. Boardside focuses on the governance record around the meeting: upload your minutes and its AI scans them to pull out decisions, action items, owners, and attendees, filing them straight into your decisions log, action tracker, and registers — so nothing is lost or re-keyed between meetings. (In-app live transcription is on our roadmap.)
Before we meet, we'll run Boardside on your own board's landscape and have a real pre-board briefing ready to walk you through — no card, no pressure.
No credit card required. We'll reach out personally to get you set up.