# Board portals: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "board portal" and as "board management software", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. Added to the November 2026 Edition. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/corporate/board-portals/2026-11

**Standing:** OnBoard leads with 52% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 54 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [OnBoard](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/onboard/index.md) | 52% | 11% | 61 |
| 2 | [BoardPro](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/boardpro/index.md) | 20% | 9% | 46 |
| 3 | [Boardable](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/boardable/index.md) | 11% | 8% | 37 |
| 4 | [Nasdaq Boardvantage](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/nasdaq-boardvantage/index.md) | 6% | 26% | 39 |
| 5 | [Easy Board](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/easy-board/index.md) | 6% | 0% | 10 |
| 9 | [Azeus Convene](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/azeus-convene/index.md) | 0% | 5% | 22 |
| 10 | [AppDeck](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/appdeck/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 13 |
| 11 | [Aprio Board Portal](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/aprio-board-portal/index.md) | 0% | 10% | 20 |
| 12 | [Ideals Board](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/ideals-board/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 13 |
| 13 | [BoardEffect](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/boardeffect/index.md) | 0% | 26% | 31 |
| 14 | [Govenda](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/govenda/index.md) | 0% | 7% | 15 |
| 24 | [Diligent Boards](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/diligent-boards/index.md) | 0% | 47% | 58 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 53 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: OnBoard; alternatives Aprio Board Portal, BoardEffect, Govenda
- GPT-5.4 mini: OnBoard; alternatives BoardEffect, BoardPro, Diligent Boards, Nasdaq Boardvantage
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: OnBoard; alternatives Aprio Board Portal, Azeus Convene, Govenda
- Perplexity Sonar: OnBoard; alternatives AppDeck, Boardable
- Grok 4.20: OnBoard; alternatives Aprio Board Portal, BoardPro
- Mistral Small: Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard; alternatives Diligent Boards
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: OnBoard; alternatives Aprio Board Portal, BoardPro
- Llama 4 Maverick: OnBoard
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: OnBoard; alternatives BoardPro, Boardable
- Kimi K2: BoardPro, OnBoard; alternatives Aprio Board Portal
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: BoardPro, OnBoard; alternatives AppDeck
- MiniMax M2.5: OnBoard; alternatives AppDeck, BoardEffect, BoardMaps, BoardPro
- GPT-6 Luna: OnBoard; alternatives Diligent Boards, Nasdaq Boardvantage
- Muse Glimmer 30B: OnBoard, Zeck; alternatives AppDeck

## Sources the answers cite

73 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- capterra.com: 36 answers, 69 citations
- softwareadvice.com: 33 answers, 55 citations
- appdeck.com: 31 answers, 47 citations
- diligent.com: 21 answers, 33 citations
- onboardmeetings.com: 21 answers, 24 citations
- g2.com: 20 answers, 32 citations
- verifiedmarketresearch.com: 20 answers, 21 citations
- nasdaq.com: 17 answers, 29 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://capterra.com/board-management-software (24 answers)
- https://softwareadvice.com/board-management (24 answers)
- https://appdeck.com/blog/board-portal-software-comparison-2026 (21 answers)
- https://verifiedmarketresearch.com/blog/leading-board-portal-software (19 answers)
- https://softwaretestinghelp.com/best-board-management-software (14 answers)
- https://statwharf.com/best/board-portal-software (13 answers)
- https://softwareadvice.com/portal (11 answers)
- https://softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4536/board-management/software (10 answers)
- https://boardable.com/plans (9 answers)
- https://board-room.org/ (8 answers)

## Warned against

- Diligent Boards: 27 of 58 labels negative. "What to Avoid - Diligent, OnBoard, and BoardEffect — These enterprise-grade portals are quote-only and typically cost $10,000+ per year." (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- BoardEffect: 8 of 31 labels negative. "If you require rock-solid uptime and bug-free reliability, you may want to bypass BoardEffect." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt)
- OnBoard: 7 of 61 labels negative. "What to Avoid - Diligent, OnBoard, and BoardEffect" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- Nasdaq Boardvantage: 10 of 39 labels negative. "Nasdaq Boardvantage is positioned as compliance-focused for publicly traded companies, so they are typically over-specified and priced higher" (Muse Glimmer 30B, direct prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 10 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: OnBoard at 52%.

- BoardPro: 6% to 20%, +14. Cleared the floor by 4 points · rank 3 → 2 of 53.
- Boardable: 20% to 11%, −9. Inside the floor by 1 point · rank 2 → 3 of 53.
- Nasdaq Boardvantage: 2% to 6%, +4. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 8 → 4 of 53.
- Easy Board: 2% to 6%, +4. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 13 → 5 of 53.
- Aprio Board Portal: 4% to 0%, −4. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 5 → 11 of 53.
- OnBoard: 49% to 52%, +3. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 1 of 53, unchanged.
- Azeus Convene: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 9 of 53, unchanged.
- AppDeck: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 10 of 53, unchanged.
- BoardEffect: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 7 → 13 of 53.
- Govenda: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 6 → 14 of 53.
- Ideals Board: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 16 → 12 of 53.
- Diligent Boards: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 14 → 24 of 53.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/finance.