IQ is the AI intelligence layer of the Board Intelligence platform. It comes in two layers. IQ Insights helps directors understand their board materials; pack overviews, paper summaries, critical information, and historical context. IQ Experts helps them sharpen their thinking and explore their curiosity by bringing expert perspectives across 130+ board domains, surfacing gaps and assumptions, and stress-testing decisions before the meeting. The two work together: IQ Insights gives you the foundations, IQ Experts gives you the expert perspectives.

How is IQ different from ChatGPT or Copilot?

Generic AI tools are good at compressing information. They summarise documents. They don't understand what boards need. IQ is purpose-built for the boardroom, drawing on twenty years of board effectiveness consulting. Where generic AI asks what's in this document?, IQ asks what should the board be challenging here?

Will IQ replace directors?

No. IQ is designed to support the director, not to replace them. Every output is a starting point: the director asks, refines, and is accountable for the conclusion. IQ surfaces questions, gaps, and perspectives. The director makes the judgement.

Will IQ create groupthink?

IQ is designed to support inquiry and curiosity; to broaden perspectives, not narrow them. Each director can ask their own questions, follow their own lines of thinking, and see their own conversations. Conversations are private to the director.

Is my board data safe?

Yes. Nothing is stored after the response is returned. Your data is never used to improve our models. We host in your chosen jurisdiction, either on our co-located infrastructure in the UK or on the Google Cloud Platform in UK, EU, Switzerland, US and Saudi Arabia. We are ISO 27001 certified and use sophisticated role-based permissioning so only those who should see data, see data.

When can I get IQ Experts?

IQ Experts is available now. Talk to us today to get it set up so you can analyse any board pack, in moments.

How does IQ fit with the rest of the Board Intelligence platform?

IQ lives inside the Board Intelligence platform. Directors access it from within their board pack view; no separate login, no new app. If you're already a client, IQ will surface inside your existing experience. If you're new to Board Intelligence, IQ comes alongside our board portal as part of your platform.

Meet IQ Experts, the AI that powers effective boards

130+ expert perspectives, 80+ boardroom capabilities, your board’s entire history, and live external sources. All within your secure board portal, accessible in moments.

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Run complex analysis fast

Open your board pack and find IQ Experts beside every paper. Draw on 80+ boardroom capabilities to test scenarios, model the numbers, and explore sensitivities, in moments.

Connect the dots across packs

Instantly recall any board pack you're permitted to see, and follow how forecasts have held, which trends are emerging, and where topics are interconnected.

Access the latest expertise

Review any topic through 130+ expert domains, from cyber, to regulation, to markets. All kept current, so you stay up to date on every area that matters to your board.

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Bring in external context

Ground your analysis in the wider operating environment, getting the latest read on everything from competitors to regulation. Every source is trustworthy and referenced.

Secure your most confidential content

IQ Experts runs inside the same Board Intelligence portal that Fortune 500, FTSE 100 and OMX 30 boards trust with their most sensitive material.

No machine learning on your data, ever. Your data is never used to train or improve the AI models.
Zero data retention. Once a response to your question is returned, no record of your data is kept by the AI.
High-security infrastructure. ISO 27001-certified controls, encryption in transit and at rest, and processing in the jurisdiction you choose.
Individual user permissions. Each director can only view and reference the packs they’re allowed to access.

If we’re 10% wrong in our input assumptions for this project, does it still deliver an acceptable pay back?
Run detailed financial sensitivity analysis in seconds, not hours, and follow your line of enquiry further.
What was the original business case for this project 2 years ago, and what are the chances based on prior examples that we bring this project back on track?
Connect today’s paper to every prior discussion and decision, without leaving the paper you're reading.
How are attempted cyber attacks trending over the last 3 years? And how does this compare to market norms?
Call on 130+ expert domains, all kept current, and see a single topic from any angle.
What is the latest sustainability innovation in the market?
Draw on trustworthy external sources to connect each paper with what's happening outside the boardroom.

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ChatGPT/Copilot

Where it works

Board Intelligence

Inside your secure board portal, within the board pack you’re reading.

ChatGPT/Copilot

In a separate tool.

What it can see

Board Intelligence

The board pack, all the packs that came before it, your organisation’s priorities, and the wider operating landscape.

ChatGPT/Copilot

Whatever is pasted in.

What guides it

Board Intelligence

130+ expert perspectives and 80+ boardroom capabilities, developed through frameworks like Board Intelligence’s 6 conversations model.

ChatGPT/Copilot

General-purpose principles, with no context on what boards need.

How it treats your data

Board Intelligence

Permissioned to the person, encrypted in transit and at rest, and never used to train any model.

ChatGPT/Copilot

Governed by each user’s own settings, often outside the organisation’s control.

The result you receive

Board Intelligence

Reliable, relevant analysis: for every director, on every board pack.

ChatGPT/Copilot

Varying results according to the day and each director’s prompting ability.

Even the best packs don’t answer it all

No board or executive committee pack can hold everything. Even at 220 pages, the average pack only covers a fraction of what its authors know, or what a director might ask.

That gap has a cost. In our Board Value Index, 84% of directors traced a recent rushed, delayed, or poor decision back to a shortfall of information. This is the gap IQ Experts is built to close.

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What is IQ Experts?

IQ Experts is a tool inside the Board Intelligence portal that lets directors open up their board materials with superhuman reach, depth, and speed. Ask anything as you’re reading the pack — say, around a claim you’d like to test or a thread you want to pull — and get answers grounded in your board’s history, live external sources, and our advisory expertise.
What does IQ Experts draw on?
IQ Experts recombines existing material; it doesn’t invent it. It draws on four sources:
- Your current pack and your board’s pack history, with your portal permissions applied.
- Your organisation’s context — strategy, priorities, and key policies, set up with you at onboarding.
- Our own expertise — 130+ expert perspectives and 80+ capabilities, distilled from 20 years of board advisory work.
- And a live search of trusted external sources, verified and always cited.
What are “perspectives” and “capabilities”?

Perspectives are the sets of questions the best boards ask when a topic comes up — 130+ of them, spanning strategy, performance, and governance and risk. Capabilities are the how-tos of complex board tasks, from financial modelling to KPI design to agenda shaping. Together, they’re what lets IQ Experts go beyond what’s on the page, the way a specialist in the topic at hand would.
How is it different from ChatGPT or Copilot?

Context and built-in expertise. A generic tool sees only what’s attached to the prompt; IQ Experts starts with everything already in reach — the paper, the pack around it, years of board history, and live external sources, all under your permissions and every source cited. Our 20 years of board advisory work then steer how that trove is read, with hundreds of thoroughly tested perspectives and capabilities for the AI to tap into.
Will IQ Experts replace directors?

No. IQ Experts gives directors superpowers, but the judgement stays theirs. Every response is a starting point: directors ask, refine, and own the conclusion.
Will it create groupthink?

It’s built for the opposite. Directors ask their own questions and follow their own lines of inquiry, so it widens the range of perspectives in the room rather than narrowing it.
Is my board data safe?

Yes. The AI keeps no record of your data once a response is returned, and your data never improves our models. The same ISO 27001-audited controls and permissions as the rest of the platform apply, and you choose the jurisdiction your data is processed in — we’ll walk you through the options.
How does IQ Experts fit with the rest of the platform?

It lives inside the Board Intelligence portal — directors open it from the pack view, with no separate login and no new app. IQ Experts sits alongside IQ Insights, which covers the essential questions on every pack.

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Meet IQ Experts, the AI that powers effective boards

130+ expert perspectives, 80+ boardroom capabilities, your board’s entire history, and live external sources. All within your secure board portal, accessible in moments.

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Channel your directors' curiosity

Give your directors a superpower: the depth and range of analysis that can take days, in moments. All within your secure board portal.

Run complex analysis fast

Connect the dots across packs

Access the latest expertise

Bring in external context

Secure your most confidential content

What will you ask first?

See how IQ Experts changes the boardroom conversation

Why is this the best AI for the boardroom?

IQ Experts is built for boards, and only boards. Every answer is grounded in your organisation's own record and 20 years of board advisory work, and every director's judgement stays their own.

Even the best packs don’t answer it all

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