BOARD EFFECTIVENESS EVALUATION

Reviewed every year. Improved rarely.

Board evaluations produce polite reports and forgettable actions. Run candid, anonymised reviews that surface what directors really think — and convert findings into commitments the board is held to.

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Built For

Board Chair

Company Secretary

Senior Independent Director

A candid read on how your board actually functions — and the commitments to make it sharper.

"Board Effectiveness Evaluation is the structured, code-aligned review of how well a board and its committees function — candid input, synthesised themes, and actions tracked to closure."

THE RITUAL

The Code asks for an annual evaluation. It does not ask for a better board. Most reviews satisfy the first and quietly ignore the second.

Framework coverage

UK Corporate Governance Code 2024

OECD Principles

Saudi CMA CG Regulations

FRC Board Effectiveness

What It Does

Candid, anonymised input

Director-by-director surveys with identity separated from response at the data layer — so people say what they actually think, across board, committee and Chair dimensions.

Synthesise the themes

The agent clusters free-text responses into anonymised themes. No attribution to a name, no rating of a person, no board score.

Findings to commitments

Every theme converts to a named action with an owner and a date. The review ends with a plan the board owns — not a PDF that's filed and forgotten.

Track to closure

Actions carry forward and are reported at the next cycle. An immutable record of what was found, what was agreed, and what was done.

WHY IT'S DIFFERENT

A board is not a number.

We don't grade directors or rank your board. We produce a candid, anonymised record of collective effectiveness — and the tracked commitments that follow. The artefact a regulator, an investor and a nominations committee can all trust.

Built as One

40+ modules on one canonical data model. Not 10 acquisitions stitched together. Enter once, serve everywhere.

Data Integrity by Design

Financial-grade validation from source to report. Anomaly detection, multi-source reconciliation, complete audit trails.

Connected Intelligence

Material topics feed risk registers. Carbon data populates disclosures. Regulatory changes propagate platform-wide.

THE AGENT

Synthesis without attribution.

The Evaluation Agent clusters candid free-text responses into themes and proposes recommended actions — never linking a comment to a name, never producing a score. The Chair confirms; the system records.

Propose

Agent clusters anonymised responses into themes and drafts recommended actions.

HUMAN

Confirm

The Chair reviews, amends or rejects each theme and action. Judgement stays human.

SYSTEM

Record

Themes and agreed actions are written to an immutable, code-aligned record.

HOW IT CONNECTS

Reads the board and committee structure from Board Governance, and pushes every agreed action to Issues & Actions — tracked to closure and reported at the next cycle.

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Frequently AskedQuestions

What is Board Effectiveness Evaluation?

It is the structured, code-aligned review of how well a board and its committees function — collecting candid director input, synthesising it into themes, and tracking the resulting actions to closure in a single register.

Does it produce a board score or rank directors?

No. It never grades a director or ranks a board. It produces anonymised themes and a set of tracked commitments. A board is not a number, and reducing it to one is neither useful nor safe in a boardroom.

How is director candour protected?

Identity is separated from response at the data layer, and the AI synthesis never links a comment back to a name. Directors can be candid because the architecture — not a promise — keeps them anonymous.

Does it support externally-facilitated reviews?

Yes. The triennial external review expected of FTSE 350 boards under the UK Code runs in the same register, with the independent facilitator working alongside the Company Secretary rather than in a separate document.

Which frameworks does it align to?

The UK Corporate Governance Code 2024, the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance, the Saudi CMA Corporate Governance Regulations, and the FRC's Board Effectiveness guidance — with the record mapped to the relevant provision.