# Board portals for enterprise buyers: 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 an enterprise B2B company. Added to the November 2026 Edition. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/corporate/board-portals/enterprise

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

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Diligent Boards](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/diligent-boards/index.md) | 52% | 25% | 69 |
| 2 | [OnBoard](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/onboard/index.md) | 13% | 10% | 58 |
| 3 | [Nasdaq Boardvantage](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/nasdaq-boardvantage/index.md) | 6% | 15% | 54 |
| 5 | [Govenda](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/govenda/index.md) | 4% | 20% | 10 |
| 7 | [BoardPro](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/boardpro/index.md) | 4% | 50% | 18 |
| 12 | [Aprio Board Portal](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/aprio-board-portal/index.md) | 2% | 44% | 16 |
| 13 | [Boardable](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/boardable/index.md) | 2% | 60% | 15 |
| 14 | [Azeus Convene](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/azeus-convene/index.md) | 0% | 12% | 26 |
| 19 | [BoardEffect](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/boardeffect/index.md) | 0% | 41% | 29 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 45 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, Diligent Boards, Sherpany
- GPT-5.4 mini: Diligent Boards; alternatives Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Diligent Boards, Nasdaq Boardvantage; alternatives OnBoard, Zeck
- Perplexity Sonar: Diligent Boards; alternatives Azeus Convene, Govenda, Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
- Grok 4.20: Diligent Boards; alternatives BoardEffect, Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
- Mistral Small: Diligent Corporation; alternatives Board Intelligence, Nasdaq Boardvantage®, OnBoard
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Diligent Boards; alternatives Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
- Llama 4 Maverick: Diligent Boards; alternatives Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Diligent Boards; alternatives Blackbaist, BoardEffect, OnBoard
- Kimi K2: Diligent Boards; alternatives Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Diligent Boards, OnBoard; alternatives BoardEffect, Nasdaq Boardvantage
- MiniMax M2.5: Diligent Corporation; alternatives Board Intelligence, Nasdaq Boardvantage
- GPT-6 Luna: Diligent Boards; alternatives Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Diligent Boards; alternatives Nasdaq Boardvantage

## Sources the answers cite

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

- onboardmeetings.com: 41 answers, 53 citations
- capterra.com: 38 answers, 57 citations
- diligent.com: 32 answers, 61 citations
- appdeck.com: 27 answers, 32 citations
- verifiedmarketresearch.com: 27 answers, 27 citations
- softwareadvice.com: 25 answers, 40 citations
- aprioboardportal.com: 19 answers, 32 citations
- nasdaq.com: 19 answers, 27 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://verifiedmarketresearch.com/blog/leading-board-portal-software (25 answers)
- https://onboardmeetings.com/blog/enterprise-board-portal (22 answers)
- https://capterra.com/board-management-software (17 answers)
- https://softwareadvice.com/board-management (17 answers)
- https://gane.ai/index/finance/corporate/board-portals/enterprise (14 answers)
- https://statwharf.com/best/board-portal-software-for-enterprise (14 answers)
- https://appdeck.com/blog/board-portal-software-comparison-2026 (13 answers)
- https://fast.io/resources/board-portal-comparison (11 answers)
- https://board-rooms.co.uk/board-portal-comparison (10 answers)
- https://bulkwp.com/top-board-management-software-diligent-boards-vs-boardeffect-vs-nasdaq-boardvantage-vs-onboard (10 answers)

## Warned against

- Diligent Boards: 17 of 69 labels negative. "Vendors to Avoid for Predictable Costs | Diligent | Quote-based per user" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- BoardEffect: 12 of 29 labels negative. "Vendors to Avoid ... BoardEffect | Quote-based per user" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- Boardable: 9 of 15 labels negative. "Examples: Boardable, BoardPro, BoardDocs (K-12 focus), Govenda (formerly BoardPaq). Why be cautious / avoid" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt)
- BoardPro: 9 of 18 labels negative. "Examples: Boardable, BoardPro, BoardDocs (K-12 focus), Govenda (formerly BoardPaq). Why be cautious / avoid" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

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

- Nasdaq Boardvantage: 19% to 6%, −13. Cleared the floor by 3 points · rank 2 → 3 of 45.
- OnBoard: 2% to 13%, +11. Cleared the floor by 1 point · rank 6 → 2 of 45.
- Govenda: 9% to 4%, −5. Inside the floor by 5 points · rank 3 → 5 of 45.
- BoardPro: 6% to 4%, −2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 4 → 7 of 45.
- Boardable: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 45 → 13 of 45.
- BoardEffect: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 7 → 19 of 45.
- Diligent Boards: 53% to 52%, −1. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 1 of 45, unchanged.
- Aprio Board Portal: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 8 → 12 of 45.
- Azeus Convene: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 11 → 14 of 45.
- Board Intelligence: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 12 → 16 of 45.

## 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.