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 the meeting from inside Boardside. Live transcription with speaker labels. Capture decisions, actions, and recommendation outcomes with one click as they happen. Go in camera for confidential sessions — recording pauses, nothing leaves your browser. Tomorrow morning: an AI-synthesised draft minutes in NZ governance prose, complete with attendees, agenda summaries, resolutions, and follow-up actions.
The end of "I'll write that up later". The chair walks out with the work product already drafted.
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 in active early access with NZ boards across the private, not-for-profit, and iwi sectors. We're onboarding a small number of founding boards now — working closely with directors to build the governance intelligence platform New Zealand needs.
All plans include a 14-day free trial. No credit card required to start.
Boardside is in early access for New Zealand directors. Join the waitlist and we'll reach out personally to get you set up.
No credit card required. We'll reach out personally to get you set up.