A clear question, six honest views, your call.
Your Chief of Staff turns what you say into a decision worth deliberating. Your Board argues it. You decide.
Talk the way you think
Everything starts with a conversation with your Chief of Staff, the one voice you talk to in BizSelf. Talk in the car with Hands-free, dictate between meetings, or type when you can't speak. Every spoken exchange is kept as text, so you can find it, read it and share it later.
When you mention something you have to decide, your Chief of Staff records it as a decision and keeps building it: the question, what is at stake, the options, the people involved and what you don't know yet.
Your decisions, in one place
The Decisions tab shows what needs your call, what the Board is working on, what is still taking shape and what you have decided. Nothing piles up against you. There are no counters and no task lists.
A first reaction
When you want pushback now, ask for a Fast Take. Two members of your Board react: the one closest to the question and the one most likely to disagree. Each says what matters in a few sentences, then you choose whether to take it to the full Board.
The full Board
A full deliberation runs in the background while you keep talking or get on with your day. Each member forms a view before seeing the others, then answers the strongest argument against it, holding or conceding with a reason. You get a written synthesis, organized by where the Board disagrees.
- Where they agree, and what would break that agreement
- Where they disagree, with each side's strongest argument
- What would change their minds
- What you are deciding without knowing
- The question you didn't ask
- The Board's lean, with every dissent next to it
Then one question: what do you decide? You can decide, ask for something first, set it aside until a date, or drop it.
Six seats
CFO
Cash, cost, return and financial risk. What the numbers say.
Strategist
Position, competition, sequencing and long-term consequence.
Devil's Advocate
The strongest case against the leading option. Always.
Customer Advocate
How your customers and clients will live with the choice.
Industry Veteran
What usually happens in a business like yours, and how it fails.
Strategic Thought Partner
Takes no side. Writes the synthesis and asks the question nobody asked.
Specialists in sales, marketing, people, customer success and technology join when a decision touches their area. You can turn members on and off in Settings. Every member is AI, and BizSelf says so wherever they speak.
Work prepared for you to send
Ask for a brief, a draft, a plan or research, and your Chief of Staff prepares it under the decision it serves. It appears in Prepared, ready to read, revise or share as a PDF. BizSelf never sends it for you.
What BizSelf knows about you
BizSelf learns about your business from your conversations, your website and your files. Every item shows where it came from, and you can correct or remove it in one gesture. What you remove leaves what comes next.
Checking back
On Pro, when a decision's review date comes, BizSelf asks what happened. Your Track Record keeps what the Board said, what you decided and how it went.