Your advisors’ best advice is usually the part you can’t find six months later.

Quarterly minutes, recorded properly

Every advisory meeting becomes a structured record — who attended, what was discussed, what was decided, what action items came out, who owns them, when they’re due. The CEO is no longer the only person who remembers what the advisors said last quarter.

Built for

• Startup advisory boards
• Fractional / part-time advisory councils
• Nonprofit advisory committees
• Family-office investment and governance advisors
• Industry / sector advisory boards

What you maintain with MinuteSmith

• Quarterly minutes — drafted, reviewed, approved. Reviewers (advisors, observers, counsel) sign off without accounts; comments thread per section; the approved record locks.
• Written consents and async approvals. Capture decisions made between meetings — the approval, the advisor who approved it, the date, and the rationale.
• Searchable history. Ask AI lets a new advisor search every decision your advisory board has ever made — with citations to the meeting that decided it.
• Action-item accountability.Action items from advisor meetings carry forward into the next meeting’s continuity brief. Nothing gets dropped between quarters.
• Advisor rotation continuity.When an advisor cycles off — or a new one cycles on — the new advisor inherits the full history of the board’s deliberation, not a Slack channel.

Why not just use ChatGPT or a board portal?

A chatbot can tidy up one set of notes you paste in, but it has no memory of what your advisors decided last quarter and can’t cite the meeting or the written consent that recorded it. A portal stores your files; it doesn’t answer questions. MinuteSmith keeps your advisory board’s own approved record, answers a new advisor’s question with a citation to the exact minutes, and never trains AI on your data.

For the company holding the advisory board

Three rounds from now — at a financing, a sale, or an audit — the record of advisor decisions exists. Not the founder’s recollection of advisor decisions, the record itself. The diligence question that used to be uncomfortable is now a search.

Calm, operational — not legal software

MinuteSmith helps you keep organized advisory-board records and run consistent meeting workflows. It is not legal, tax, or compliance advice and does not replace your attorney, CPA, or corporate counsel. What the records mean is their call — MinuteSmith makes the records easy to hand them.