# Board and investor reporting: what AI models recommend, September 2026

Gane Index, September 2026 Edition. Asked as "board reporting software" and as "investor reporting tool", six framings each, to twelve models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/planning/board-and-investor-reporting/2026-09

This is the permanent record of the September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/planning/board-and-investor-reporting/index.md

**Standing:** OnBoard leads with 25% of first choices; verdict contested. 44 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) | 25% | 16% | 37 |
| 2 | [Boardable](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/boardable/index.md) | 14% | 4% | 25 |
| 5 | [BoardPro](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/boardpro/index.md) | 7% | 0% | 22 |
| 6 | [Nasdaq Boardvantage](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/nasdaq-boardvantage/index.md) | 5% | 37% | 27 |
| 7 | [Datarails](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/datarails/index.md) | 2% | 0% | 12 |
| 20 | [Diligent Boards](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/diligent-boards/index.md) | 2% | 49% | 35 |
| 21 | [AppDeck Board Portal](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/appdeck-board-portal/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 17 |
| 22 | [Board Intelligence](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/board-intelligence/index.md) | 0% | 8% | 13 |
| 23 | [Cube](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/cube/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 11 |
| 24 | [Planful](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/planful/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 12 |
| 25 | [Govenda](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/govenda/index.md) | 0% | 8% | 12 |
| 27 | [Azeus Convene](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/azeus-convene/index.md) | 0% | 9% | 11 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 95 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, Board Intelligence, HighRadius
- GPT-5.4 mini: OnBoard; alternatives Board Intelligence, BoardPro, Diligent Boards, Nasdaq Boardvantage
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Mosaic, OnBoard; alternatives Board Intelligence, Cube, Datarails, Govenda
- Perplexity Sonar: OnBoard; alternatives Board Intelligence, BoardEffect, Nasdaq Boardvantage
- Grok 4.20: OnBoard; alternatives AppDeck Board Portal, BoardPro, iBabs
- Mistral Small: Nasdaq Boardvantage; alternatives BoardEffect, Datarails, Fairview
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: OnBoard; alternatives AppDeck Board Portal, Fairview
- Llama 4 Maverick: Nasdaq Boardvantage; alternatives Datarails, Fairview
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Diligent Boards; alternatives Enboarder, Fello, OnBoard
- Kimi K2: Datarails; alternatives Cube, Planful
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Aprio Board Portal, OnBoard; alternatives AppDeck Board Portal, BoardEffect, Govenda, Nasdaq Boardvantage
- MiniMax M2.5: OnBoard; alternatives BoardEffect, Datarails, Planful

## Sources the answers cite

61 of 72 answers came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- worldmetrics.org: 38 answers, 70 citations
- board-room.org: 36 answers, 45 citations
- appdeck.com: 35 answers, 64 citations
- clearpointstrategy.com: 32 answers, 39 citations
- getaleph.com: 26 answers, 26 citations
- g2.com: 22 answers, 34 citations
- fast.io: 20 answers, 20 citations
- guideflow.com: 19 answers, 19 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://clearpointstrategy.com/blog/board-reporting-software (32 answers)
- https://appdeck.com/blog/board-reporting-software-comparison (30 answers)
- https://board-room.org/blog/board-reporting-software (29 answers)
- https://worldmetrics.org/best/board-reporting-software (26 answers)
- https://getaleph.com/answers/board-investor-reporting-software (24 answers)
- https://appdeck.com/blog/board-portal-software-comparison-2026 (19 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/board-management-software (18 answers)
- https://learn.g2.com/best-board-management-software (15 answers)
- https://worldmetrics.org/best/board-report-software (15 answers)
- https://gitnux.org/best/board-reporting-software (13 answers)

## Warned against

- Diligent Boards: 17 of 35 labels negative. "Diligent ($15K\u201330K+/yr) and Board Intelligence are enterprise standard but far out of budget. Skip these" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- Nasdaq Boardvantage: 10 of 27 labels negative. "I would avoid Diligent, BoardEffect, and Boardvantage if budget is the main constraint" (Perplexity Sonar, budget prompt)
- BoardEffect: 6 of 20 labels negative. "I would avoid Diligent, BoardEffect, and Boardvantage if budget is the main constraint" (Perplexity Sonar, budget prompt)
- OnBoard: 6 of 37 labels negative. "OnBoard: Frequent gripes about agenda glitches, permission settings, navigation difficulties, and upload issues" (Grok 4.20, negative prompt)

## Record

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