What BoardPro Limited does

BoardPro Limited, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, provides cloud-based board management software for small and mid-sized organizations. The platform serves approximately 4,000 boards and 30,000 board members across 38 countries, with primary markets including New Zealand, Australia, the UK, North America, and South Africa. Customer segments span SMEs, non-profits, schools, and sporting organizations, with dedicated pricing tiers reflecting the differentiated willingness-to-pay across these cohorts.

The product centers on the operational workflow of a board: agenda and meeting preparation, minutes and decision capture, document and policy management, action items, and sub-committee structures for boards of varying size. In 2026 BoardPro launched an AI Assistant built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI that retrieves and reasons over each board's own historical governance records to answer director questions and assist with drafting, with a stated zero-retention policy for board content. The platform architecture is a multi-tenant SaaS application with role-based access for chairs, directors, administrators, and company secretaries, and supports the multi-organization, multi-seat usage patterns typical of governance software.

BoardPro operates a subscription SaaS model with tiered pricing for commercial, non-profit, and school customers. Distribution is product-led, supplemented by content marketing, category leadership on G2 in 2025 and 2026, and channel partnerships such as the Institute of Community Directors Australia. The company is bootstrapped (no external funding disclosed) and profitable, with 11-50 employees. Recent additions to leadership include CEO Charlie Nowaczek (ex-Serko), CTO Zeeshan Bhatti, and Head of Sales Sean McDonald, consistent with a deliberate scale-up posture.

Name

BoardPro Limited

Legal name

BoardPro Limited

Website

https://boardpro.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

BoardPro Limited is a New Zealand-based SaaS company that provides cloud board management software to approximately 4,000 boards and 30,000 board members across 38 countries, serving SMEs, non-profits, schools, and sporting organizations with subscription tiered pricing and an AI Assistant built on Azure OpenAI.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Auckland

HQ country

New Zealand

HQ region

Oceania

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription - Board Management Software: SaaS subscription model based on number of boards and subcommittees. Includes unlimited people, administrators, meetings, and data storage. Access from any device via web-app. Annual and monthly billing options.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

BoardPro provides cloud-based board management software that handles the full lifecycle of board meetings — from scheduling and agenda building, through board pack production and real-time minute-taking, to action tracking, voting, e-signatures, and decision registers. The platform includes a governance-grade AI Assistant that draws on each board's own historical records to summarise board papers and answer questions about past decisions. It is sold as a SaaS subscription priced per board and sub-committee to SMEs, non-profits, schools, and sporting organisations.

Product overview

BoardPro is a unified cloud-based board management software platform and board portal designed for SMEs, non-profits, schools, and sporting organisations. The platform provides an end-to-end meeting workflow encompassing Meeting Schedule, Agenda Builder, Board Packs, Minutes, Actions, Voting, eSignatures, Decision Register, Interest Register, Governance Repository, Flying Minutes, Sub-committees, and Annual Work Plan. AI capabilities are embedded throughout, including AI Assistant (knowledge retrieval and natural-language processing grounded in the board's own record) and AI-enabled features in the Agenda Builder and Annual Work Plan. The product is priced for accessibility, targeting commercial SMEs, non-profits, and schools with tiered subscription plans.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• BoardPro Cloud-based board management software and board portal designed for SMEs, non-profits, schools, and sporting organisations. Provides an end-to-end meeting workflow including agenda building, board pack creation, minute-taking, voting, e-signatures, action tracking, decision registers, and a governance document repository.
• BoardPro AI Assistant Governance-grade AI assistant grounded in each board's own governance record, enabling directors to summarize board papers, ask natural-language questions about past meetings and decisions, and retrieve governance information across years of stored documents.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces administrative time by up to 50% when compiling meeting papers and tasks
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability3 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Institute of Community Directors AustraliacoreGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnership with the Institute of Community Directors Australia providing governance resources and visibility to community directors and not-for-profit board members.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Diligent: Diligent is the largest enterprise board management and governance software vendor, offering board portals, entity management, and GRC. It is comparable to BoardPro as the dominant category incumbent that BoardPro competes against, particularly as Diligent extends downmarket into mid-sized organisations.

Direct peers

• Nasdaq Boardvantage: Nasdaq Boardvantage is a leading board portal solution used by corporations and large non-profits for board meeting management, document distribution, and secure collaboration. It is a direct competitor to BoardPro in the board management software category, though it skews toward larger enterprises.
• BoardEffect: BoardEffect provides board management software tailored to non-profits, education, and healthcare organisations. It is one of the closest direct competitors to BoardPro given its shared focus on non-profit and education verticals and SME/mid-market board governance workflows.
• OnBoard: OnBoard (by Passageways) is a board meeting and governance platform offering agendas, minutes, voting, and document management. It competes head-to-head with BoardPro in the board portal category, with comparable feature sets and overlapping customer profiles in SMEs and non-profits.
• Azeus Convene: Convene by Azeus is an established board portal solution serving enterprises and public sector bodies with paperless meeting workflows, eSignatures, and audit trails. It competes with BoardPro in the core board management category and has strong international reach across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
• Govenda: Govenda is a board management and collaboration platform offering meeting workflows, document management, and director engagement tools. It is a direct competitor to BoardPro in the SME/mid-market board software space, particularly for non-profit and association boards.
• iCompass: iCompass (Diligent Technologies) provides board and council management software for public sector, education, and non-profit organisations. It is directly comparable to BoardPro in the school board and non-profit governance verticals.

Emerging players

• Aprio (Board Portal): Aprio offers a board meeting and governance app for boards and committees, with focus on paperless meetings, voting, and minutes. It is an emerging direct competitor to BoardPro in the SME board portal segment, with comparable meeting workflow features.

Others

• ContractWorks: ContractWorks is a contract lifecycle management SaaS platform with secure document repositories, eSignatures, and audit trails. It is an adjacent product rather than a direct competitor, but the underlying capabilities (secure document management, eSignatures) overlap with parts of BoardPro's governance repository feature set.
• Microsoft 365 / SharePoint (with governance templates): Microsoft 365/SharePoint is a frequent low-cost or 'good enough' alternative used by SMEs and non-profits to manage board documents, agendas, and minutes. As the underlying infrastructure provider for BoardPro (Azure), Microsoft represents both a platform dependency and a competitive threat via SharePoint-based governance workflows.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCXOAzzqVuydk20kLZhLBB9g
• LinkedInnz.linkedin.com/company/boardpro-limited
• Xx.com/boardproltd

Compliance6 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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