Decidian reads your board pack against every pack before it. It finds the risk that changed, the line buried on page 83, and what moved outside since you wrote it.
An ambush is not a hard question. It is a question your own pack should have answered.
23:00Eleven the night before, you are still playing devil’s advocate against your own pack.
p. 83The thing that mattered was in the pack: one sentence, on page 83.
45 minYou present for 45 minutes. “Great, well delivered. Next item.”
9 of 14
private-equity-backed CFOs were caught out in the past year by a board question their own pack should have answered.
Core3 roundtable of 14 PE-backed CFOs, UK, May 2026
Since the last pack
The risk is in what changed.
Upload your draft. Decidian holds it against every pack before it and brings the three risks that matter to the top: what moved, what is buried, and what the pack does not say you are doing about it.
DecidianPack review Runs on your machine
Before Thursday · 3 to prepare
Changed since last pack
No plan in the pack
Changed outside
Board pack · Section 7
Customers & revenue
“Our largest customer’s share of revenue increased slightly this quarter.”
01 · Changed since last pack
Customer concentration rose from 31% to 38% of revenue since Q2. The pack mentions it once, on page 83.
Source: Q2 and Q3 packs
02 · No plan in the pack
Covenant headroom fell to 1.2x. The pack names the risk but not what you are doing about it.
Prepare: mitigation + downside case
03 · Changed outside
Two of five peers cut guidance since this was written. Does the demand assumption on page 12 still hold?
Sources: 2 exchange filings
Runs on your machine
Your packs and their history stay with you.
On the AI you already chose
Claude, Copilot or ChatGPT, under your company’s own agreement. Nothing comes to us.
Every finding sourced
Each finding points to its page or source, with a date.
The outside view
Then hold your pack up against the world.
Decidian reads the public world around your company: peers, customers, suppliers and lenders. Anything that moved since you wrote the pack is tied to the page it touches, with its source and date.
Since your last pack
High
Your closest peer lowers full-year guidance
Exchange filingtouches page 12
Medium
Credit insurer tightens limits in your second-largest market
Sector presstouches page 31
Low
Key supplier files accounts with negative equity
Company registrytouches page 54
Exchange filings, company registries, regulators and the press. Public sources only.
The meeting
Spend the meeting on what comes next.
When the three risks that matter open the pack, the room stops explaining last quarter and starts on the next one.
62%
of board members and governance professionals say board information is too operational and not strategic enough.
Board Intelligence, 2023
For investors
Your CFOs find the risk before you have to.
One standard for every board pack in your portfolio. Each company runs Decidian on its own machines and its own AI. You get sharper packs and better meetings, not their data.
Built for the person who writes the pack.
I have sat on a board, and I spent fifteen years close to the market at Meltwater, Schibsted and Discovery. The signals always showed up early. They reached management late, and the board even later. Decidian puts them in the pack you write, before your board asks.
Lars Hvinden, founder and CEO. Building Decidian at Startuplab in Oslo.
By invitation
Rehearse your last board meeting first.
We are shaping Decidian with a small group of CFOs and investors.
