The Operating System for Governance

Your board meets
quarterly.
Governance failures
don’t wait.

Professional-grade playbooks, templates, and frameworks that transform board meetings from governance theater into fiduciary discipline. Built for startups and private companies where oversight matters most and exists least.

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The Problem

The default state of a board is dysfunction.

Not malice. Not incompetence. Dysfunction. Because we hand directors a title, a set of bylaws, and a D&O policy — then expect them to govern with nothing but good intentions.

We would never put a pilot in a cockpit without a preflight checklist. Yet we routinely seat fiduciaries in the most consequential room in a company and hand them nothing but an agenda.

A Blood-Testing UnicornProduct Integrity

No director asked if the product actually worked.

A $32B Crypto ExchangeFinancial Controls

Billions moved without board oversight or records.

A $47B Co-Working GiantOrganizational Guardrails

Self-dealing went unchallenged by a passive board.

Board Meeting in a Box™

Nine templates. One operating system.

Meeting Cycle
01

Board Meeting Agenda

Timed structure with embedded governance probes at every section. Includes cybersecurity oversight and AI & digital transformation governance.

02

Pre-Meeting Prep Checklist

Four-phase preparation framework. Complete 5 days before every meeting. Fiduciary duty made actionable.

03

Consent Agenda Framework

Streamline routine business. Includes resolution template and Chair’s script with exact language.

04

Resolution & Action Tracker

Post-meeting accountability. Formal resolutions, assigned actions, escalation triggers, Secretary certification.

05

Effectiveness Scorecard

26-question self-assessment across 5 dimensions. Aggregate scores. Track improvement over time.

Board Composition & Refreshment
06

Board Skills Matrix

30 competencies across 6 categories. Stage-aware priorities. Identify gaps before they become liabilities.

07

Director Onboarding Playbook

90-day program in 4 phases. Turns a new director into a prepared fiduciary before their first vote.

08

Composition & Succession Policy

10-section board adoption template. Director qualifications, term structures, emergency succession.

09

Performance Assessment

31 questions across 5 dimensions. Individual director evaluation with renewal recommendations.

Pricing

From self-serve to white glove.

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Board Meeting in a Box™

Core Playbooks
$499one-time

Nine professional-grade templates that give your board a complete governance operating system — from meeting preparation through board composition.

Board Meeting Agenda with embedded governance probes
Pre-Meeting Director Prep Checklist
Consent Agenda Framework with resolution templates
Post-Meeting Resolution & Action Tracker
Meeting Effectiveness Scorecard
Board Skills Matrix — 30 competencies across 6 categories
Director Onboarding Playbook — 90-day program
Board Composition & Succession Policy
Director Performance Assessment — 31 questions, 5 dimensions
Cybersecurity and AI governance oversight probes embedded throughout
Governance Probes drawn from billion-dollar governance failures
BEST VALUE

BoardKit Professional

Professional Suite
$1,999per year

Everything in Core Playbooks — plus the specialized governance infrastructure that scales with your board's complexity and your company's sector.

Everything in Core Playbooks
Committee Micro-Kits (Audit, Compensation, Nominating, Risk)
Sector Module of your choice (Healthcare, Fintech, Nonprofit, SaaS)
Case-Based Vignettes for board education
Table-Top Exercise Module
AI & Digital Transformation Governance Module
Sample Board Packet — complete reference model for meeting materials
Quarterly template updates
WHITE GLOVE

Concierge Onboarding

Enterprise
$15,000engagement

White-glove implementation. We configure BoardKit for your specific board, sector, and stage — and train your directors.

Everything in Professional Suite
Custom governance assessment
Tailored templates configured to your bylaws and charter
Board training session (virtual or in-person)
AI-generated policy package — up to 17 governance policies tailored to your company
AI-generated board meeting packet configured to your board’s structure
Dedicated governance advisor for 90 days
🛡30-Day Money-Back Guarantee — If BoardKit doesn’t transform your board, get a full refund. No questions asked.
From the Manifesto
The pace of complexity outstrips our ability to oversee it. The tools of governance have not changed in decades. BoardKit changes that. Not with more rules. Not with more compliance. With better systems.

Governance is not a compliance exercise performed for auditors and regulators. It is an operational discipline — as rigorous, as structured, and as essential as the systems we build for engineering, finance, and product development.

But the floor comes before the ceiling. Companies are failing at basics — tax filings years delinquent, entity registrations lapsed, regulatory obligations untracked. BoardKit makes fundamental compliance a standing verification, not an assumption.

Read the Full Manifesto

Built for those who take the seat seriously.

First-Time Directors

You know the stakes are real. Now you have tools that match the responsibility.

Startup CEOs

You want a board that challenges you, not one that applauds. Build that board.

Investors & VCs

Governance is not overhead — it is infrastructure. Protect your portfolio.

Corporate Secretaries

You’ve held it together with duct tape and memory. You deserve a system.

Free Governance Resource

11 Questions Every Director
Should Ask — But Most Don’t

The probing questions drawn from billion-dollar governance failures. Download the free PDF and bring them to your next board meeting.

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Questions

Frequently asked.

All templates are delivered as Microsoft Word (.docx) files. They're fully editable and compatible with Word, Google Docs, and Pages. No special software required.

Absolutely. We offer a 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. If the templates don't transform how your board operates, email us and we'll refund your purchase in full.

The Core Playbooks are sector-agnostic — fiduciary obligations, governance probes, and board effectiveness principles apply universally. The Professional Suite includes Sector Modules tailored to Healthcare, Fintech, Nonprofit, and SaaS, plus Committee Micro-Kits, Case-Based Vignettes, Table-Top Exercises, and quarterly template updates.

Your license covers use within one organization. If you serve on multiple boards, each organization needs its own license. Contact us for multi-board discounts.

Board portals manage the logistics of governance — document sharing, scheduling, voting. BoardKit is the substance of governance — the questions your board should ask, the preparation frameworks directors need, and the effectiveness measurement that drives improvement. Many of our customers use BoardKit templates inside whatever portal or file-sharing system they already have.

Core Playbooks ($499, one-time) gives you the 9 templates that structure your board’s meeting and composition cycles. Professional ($1,999/year) adds Committee Micro-Kits for Audit, Compensation, Nominating/Governance, and Risk committees, four Sector Modules (Healthcare, Fintech, Nonprofit, SaaS), Case-Based Vignettes and Table-Top Exercises for board education, and quarterly template updates as governance standards evolve.

Still have questions? Reach us at support@boardkit.co

Who Built This

BoardKit was built by a healthcare executive who knows what happens when governance fails — because he was inside one of the most consequential governance crises in American healthcare history.

As an investor relations executive at the nation’s largest healthcare system, he navigated a federal investigation that erased 40% of market capitalization, forced a complete board and executive reconstitution, and resulted in a decade-long Corporate Integrity Agreement with the federal government. He helped build the ethics and compliance infrastructure that didn’t exist before the crisis demanded it.

That foundation — combined with a clinical pharmacy background, experience as a medical device CEO with FDA approvals, NACD Directorship Certification, Kauffman Fellow, and a decade of board-level governance across startups, PE-backed companies, and venture capital — produced a conviction: the tools of boardroom oversight have not kept pace with the complexity they are meant to govern.

This is not a consulting framework dressed up as a product. It is the operating system we wished existed when we took our first board seat — built from the inside, for the people who do the work.

Build the system.
Ask the questions.
Follow through.

Governance is the discipline of asking the right questions, at the right time, of the right people, and following through on the answers. Everything else is architecture.