You need the signed resolution attached to the decision
When the auditor or counsel later asks "what did the board approve and where is the signed version?", the answer must be the same record.
BoardiGO vs alternatives
Your board needs a focused layer, not a replacement stack.
BoardiGO focuses entirely on board execution — the workflow from agenda to signed minute. The categories below solve different problems.
This guide helps you pick the right tool for each job, instead of trying to force one tool to do everything.
Where BoardiGO fits
Pick the right tool for each job.
BoardiGO coexists with the tools below. Each entry says what BoardiGO does, what the adjacent category does, and when to pick which.
-
BoardiGO vs. an enterprise board-governance suite
Enterprise board-governance suites bundle board management with full GRC, entity management, board-effectiveness evaluation and analyst-grade procurement proof. BoardiGO focuses on board execution: agenda, decisions, signatures, minutes and follow-up — and coexists with the rest of your governance stack rather than trying to replace it. Pick the suite when you need the whole GRC, entity and board-effectiveness platform under one procurement; pick BoardiGO when you need a focused workflow that ships value in a few weeks.
-
BoardiGO vs. a classic board portal
Classic board portals are document-distribution surfaces — board pack viewer, annotation, attendance. BoardiGO treats the pack as one stage of a workflow, not the destination. If your board only needs a pack viewer, a classic portal is enough. If you need the decision, signature, minute and follow-up bound to the meeting, that is what BoardiGO runs end-to-end.
-
BoardiGO vs. a virtual data room (VDR)
BoardiGO runs the board workflow: agenda, decisions, signatures, minutes, follow-up. A VDR runs due-diligence and structured document review for transactions. If you need to give a buyer access to several thousand documents under data-room controls, that is a VDR job. If you need the board to decide and sign on a structured record, that is BoardiGO.
-
BoardiGO vs. a GRC / risk platform
BoardiGO records what the board decided about risk and compliance. A GRC platform inventories controls, runs assessments and tracks regulatory obligations across the company. Use BoardiGO to evidence the board's role; use GRC for the controls themselves.
-
BoardiGO vs. a generic e-signature service
BoardiGO embeds signatures inside the decision they came from, so the signed artefact stays bound to the board record. A standalone e-signature tool is the right answer when the signature has nothing to do with a board decision — vendor contracts, HR letters, NDAs.
-
BoardiGO vs. equity / cap-table tooling
Equity-management tools own the cap table, share ledger, option grants, 409A valuations and shareholder communications. BoardiGO does not. Keep the equity tool for ownership and use BoardiGO for what the board decides — the resolutions, signatures and minutes that the cap-table tool then references.
-
BoardiGO vs. an entity / fund operating system
Entity and fund operating-system platforms run multi-entity registers, filings, fund-administration workflows and CSP / TCSP back-offices. BoardiGO does not. Use them as the operating system for entities and funds, and use BoardiGO as the board-level decision and signature layer that lives next to them.
When to pick BoardiGO
Pick BoardiGO if any of these is true.
Recognise one or two of these and BoardiGO is the focused layer your board needs alongside the rest of your stack.
-
-
You want the record ready, not reconstructed
When the next funding round, audit or regulator request asks for the board record, it is already assembled — not pieced back together from chats, emails and folders.
-
Your evaluators expect high standards of security
Structured professional workflows require high standards of security. BoardiGO is ISO/IEC 27001 certified and shares the approved security pack for your review.
-
You want follow-up against the decision, not in a separate task list
Action owners and deadlines live next to the decision they came from. The next meeting opens with the previous one closed.
-
You want to add a board layer, not replace your stack
BoardiGO lives next to your cap-table, GRC, VDR and entity-management tools — it does not try to swallow them. Keep what you have and add the place where board decisions get made, signed and minuted, tied back to the work those tools already do.
Get started
Put your next board meeting on the record.
Start free with meetings, votes and signatures — and see the whole cycle come together the first time you run it.