A readiness scorethat opens doors.
BoardForge is a closed-loop market for board-ready executives, founders raising capital, and the chairs, charities and investors who connect them. The AI agent verifies, scores and introduces — continuously, not annually.
Credential. Agent. Community.
Three things that work together. Each one is useless without the other two.
A Board Readiness Score across six governance pillars. Verified against LinkedIn, Companies House, and your uploads. Refreshed every twelve months.
Verifies, scores, introduces, learns. Weekly digest of off-market chair seats, peer cohorts, and capital matched to your domain.
Chairs, capital partners, and charities surface opportunities both ways. Designed for board-track executives, not a job board.
Six player types. One AI agent in the middle.
The market only works if all six sides show up. So the platform is designed to make each of them want to.
Verified credential, intros, cohort placement
Investor Readiness score, NED match, capital intros
Affordable governance from the credentialed pool
Succession heat map across C-suite + n-1 + n-2
Forge Points for mock interviews — recycle to charity or invest
Credentialed NEDs for trustee seats. Free supply for free demand.
Six stages. One member record.
Phase 1 builds stages one to four. Five and six come next — but the data model is already there.
- ✓30+10 modular assessment with domain pivot
- ✓AI-verified evidence across public + uploaded sources
- ✓Full Board Readiness Score + six pillar scores
- ✓Personalised gap report and remediation plan
- ✓12-digit BF Verification ID + public verify page
- ✓Shareable credential badge (LinkedIn-ready)
- ✓Weekly intro digest: chairs, cohorts, capital
- ✓Annual refresh + score tracking
- ✓Cohort assessment of C-suite, n-1, and n-2
- ✓Governance gap + succession risk heat map
- ✓Domain-pivot benchmark against peer companies
- ✓Verified credentials for every assessed leader
- ✓Quarterly refresh + role-readiness pipeline
- ✓Remediation pathways via Kennedy McArthur
The same members come back and move forward.
The platform isn't a one-off assessment. It's a visible arc — from joining to certification to first board seat, or from founder to investor-ready to funded. The agent watches every transition and matches better next time.
8 months on platform. Score 78. Six-month Board Apprentice placement live. Projected refresh score 86.
3 months on platform. Score 64. Capital-Readiness Bootcamp in flight. Matched with Sarah Chen as first NED.
14 months on. 312 Forge Points earned. Funded one founder, two charities. League-table top of Animal Health.
6 months on. Heat map of 12 leaders. CSO succession risk flagged. Two K-M searches in flight.
The credential that follows you,refreshed every year.
Twenty minutes to complete. AI does the verification. You get a score, a gap report, and a place in a community of board-ready leaders.
Take the assessment