For boards
A competency map of the whole board. Each director's report stays private.
Board evaluation asks how the board works together. Renewal and succession ask a harder question: what does the board know, with evidence, and what will it stop knowing when the next mandate ends? The board workspace answers it without turning individual assessments into a performance file.
Who uses it
Chairs
A coverage map to steer succession and committee composition before the search brief is written.
Nomination committees
An evidenced skills matrix instead of a self-declared one, with gaps against the strategy's demand.
Board secretaries and general counsel
A defensible record that the board assessed its competencies, aligned with governance-code expectations on regular evaluation.
This eight-member board is deep on finance, risk and independence, and thin exactly where the strategy is heading: only one director evidences technology, cyber and AI at Effective or above, and none evidences crisis management
Basis: illustrative eight-director board (synthetic). Aggregate map only: individual scores are shown here for illustration; in a live workspace the chair sees coverage counts and anonymised distributions, never named individual scores unless a director opts in.
When D2's mandate ends in 2027, the board's only Effective-level technology and AI coverage leaves with it; succession planning should start now, not at renewal
Basis: mandate end dates from the workspace register crossed with the coverage map. Brass marks a mandate whose end removes the board's only Effective-level coverage of a competency.
Privacy architecture
Two views, one rule: the director owns the individual report
- §Directors are invited by the secretary; each assessment is a private contract between boardiqo and the director.
- §The chair's view shows coverage counts, distributions and gaps. It does not show who scored what.
- §A director may choose to share their individual report with the chair. The choice is logged.
- §Withdrawal removes the director's data from the aggregate on request.
How a workspace runs
Four steps, one board cycle
- 01
Set up
The secretary opens the workspace, records mandate dates and, optionally, the strategy's demand profile.
- 02
Invite
Directors receive private invitations; each completes the assessment in a single session.
- 03
Aggregate
The coverage map, gap analysis and succession timeline populate as reports are released.
- 04
Decide
Chair and nomination committee use the map for committee composition, renewal and the search brief.
Governance-code context
Governance codes in France and the United Kingdom ask boards to review their composition and functioning regularly, with a formal evaluation at least every three years. A competency map with evidence behind it gives that review a factual base. boardiqo does not replace a board evaluation and makes no claim of code compliance on its own.