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Board portals for enterprise buyers

Asked as “board portal”, and as “board management software”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 53 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each. Added to the September 2026 Edition; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b-run3), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories: how the two compare.
Standing · first-choice share
53%
Clear leader
53Diligent Boards19Nasdaq Boardvantage09Govenda19others

53% of first choices, clear leader.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Diligent Boards53%25%73endorsed leader
02Nasdaq Boardvantage19%12%60accepted challenger
03Govenda9%7%14accepted challenger
04BoardPro6%30%10criticized challenger
05OnBoard2%11%44accepted challenger
06BoardEffect2%27%22criticized challenger
07Aprio Board Portal2%31%13criticized challenger
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
10Boardable0%60%10criticized challenger
08Azeus Convene0%8%25accepted challenger
09Board Intelligence0%0%16accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
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01Diligent Boards53%
02Nasdaq Boardvantage19%
03Govenda9%
04BoardPro6%
05OnBoard2%
06BoardEffect2%
07Aprio Board Portal2%
08Azeus Convene0%
09Board Intelligence0%
10Boardable0%

What they warned about

Seven of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. GPT-5.4 mini, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Llama 4 Maverick and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Diligent Boards
25%
18 of 73 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“**Why avoid:** While it is the enterprise standard for large public companies, it is criticized for having a **dated user experience (UX)** and **very high costs**” Mistral Small, negative prompt
Nasdaq Boardvantage
12%
7 of 60 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“**Why avoid:** This platform is also enterprise-grade but comes with **very high pricing** ($20,000–$40,000+ per year).” Mistral Small, negative prompt
Boardable
60%
6 of 10 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“Avoid per-seat vendors entirely (Boardable, BoardPro, Aprio, etc.) — they will scale catastrophically at your size.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt
BoardEffect
27%
6 of 22 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“**BoardEffect — Flag for Scalability, Mobile, and Support Gaps** ... **Higher risk** | Mobile instability, downtime, weak support” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt

What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

80 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1073 links across 150 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · Fast.io54 answers · 82 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Board Intelligence51 answers · 93 citations · 13 models
44 answers · 79 citations · 14 models
vendor site · AppDeck38 answers · 71 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Diligent35 answers · 48 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Guideflow30 answers · 34 citations · 11 models
26 answers · 32 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Nasdaq24 answers · 42 citations · 10 models
vendor site · G223 answers · 23 citations · 10 models
22 answers · 24 citations · 10 models
vendor site · G220 answers · 38 citations · 10 models
20 answers · 24 citations · 11 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best board portal”, “board portal”, “board portals”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Diligent diligent.com
Diligent Boards 53%, Diligent Corporation 0%
53%288165,0006,449317,551 company$2871203
Nasdaq Boardvantage nasdaq.com19%1981,3001621,233,250$5753
Govenda govenda.com9%591,60042,5797
BoardPro boardpro.com6%179390203,012
AppDeck appdeck.com4%34200185
OnBoard onboardmeetings.com2%25622,2009,63546,823$87,98934
BoardEffect boardeffect.com2%992,90060178,25316
Aprio aprioboardportal.com
Aprio Board Portal 2%
2%4450019,979 company
Aprio Boardportal2%
BoardiGO2%

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 23 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (diligent.com, g2.com, guideflow.com). The first result for “best board portal” is peoplemanagingpeople.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best board portal for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which board management software would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade board portals and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best board portal for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a board portal. What should we look at?”Negative“Which board portals should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Diligent Boards
Four alternativesBoardable, Govenda, Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
Diligent BoardsHeld
Two alternativesAnsarada Board, Nasdaq Boardvantage
Diligent Boards
Four alternativesAzeus Convene, BoardEffect, Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
Govenda
One alternativeAppDeck
against: Diligent Boards
no first choiceagainst: Diligent Boards, Dropbox, SharePoint
GPT-5.4 miniDiligent Boards
Four alternativesAprio Board Portal, Azeus Convene, BoardEffect, Nasdaq Boardvantage
Nasdaq BoardvantageChanged
One alternativeDiligent Boards
Diligent Boards, Nasdaq Boardvantage
One alternativeOnBoard
BoardiGO
One alternativeDiligent Boards
against: BoardEffect
no first choiceagainst: Board
Gemini 3.5 FlashDiligent Boards
Three alternativesBoard Intelligence, Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
Diligent BoardsHeld
Three alternativesBoard Intelligence, Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
Diligent Boards
Five alternativesAzeus Convene, Board Intelligence, Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard, Zeck
Govenda
Two alternativesAprio Board Portal, Knowa
against: Diligent Boards, Nasdaq Boardvantage
no first choiceagainst: BoardPro, BoardSpace, Boardable, Diligent Boards, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft SharePoint, MinuteSmith, Nasdaq Boardvantage, Zeck
Perplexity SonarDiligent Boards
Two alternativesAzeus Convene, OnBoard
against: BoardEffect
Diligent Boards, Nasdaq BoardvantageChanged
One alternativeBoard Intelligence
Diligent Boards
Four alternativesAzeus Convene, Board Intelligence, Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
BoardEffect
Two alternativesDiligent Boards, Nasdaq Boardvantage
no first choiceagainst: Dropbox, Microsoft, SharePoint
Grok 4.1 FastDiligent Boards, Nasdaq Boardvantage
Two alternativesAzeus Convene, OnBoard
Diligent BoardsChanged
One alternativeNasdaq Boardvantage
against: Boardable, OnBoard
Diligent Boards, Nasdaq Boardvantage
Two alternativesBoardEffect, OnBoard
against: Aprio Board Portal
Diligent Boards
Two alternativesNasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
against: Boardable
OnBoard
Three alternativesAzeus Convene, Diligent Boards, Nasdaq Boardvantage
against: Diligent Boards, Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
Mistral SmallNasdaq Boardvantage
Three alternativesBoard Intelligence, Computershare Board Portal, OnBoard
Nasdaq BoardvantageHeldDiligent Corporation
Nine alternativesAzeus Convene, BoardCloud, BoardEffect, BoardMaps, BoardPro, Ideals Board, Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard, iBabs
Diligent Boards, Nasdaq Boardvantageno first choiceagainst: Diligent Boards, Nasdaq Boardvantage
DeepSeek V4 FlashDiligent Boards
Two alternativesNasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
Diligent BoardsHeld
Three alternativesBoard Intelligence, Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
Diligent Boards
Three alternativesAprio Board Portal, Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
Govenda
One alternativeBoardEffect
against: Aprio Board Portal, BoardPro, Boardable, Diligent Boards, Nasdaq Boardvantage
no first choiceagainst: BoardEffectagainst: Admin Portal, Aprio Board Portal, BoardEffect, BoardPaq, Diligent Boards
Llama 4 MaverickDiligent Boards
Two alternativesBoard Intelligence, Nasdaq Boardvantage
Diligent Boards, Govenda, Nasdaq BoardvantageChangedno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashDiligent Boards
Two alternativesAgileBoard, BoardEffect
against: Boardex
Diligent BoardsHeld
Two alternativesBoardable, Intralinks Boardroom
Diligent Boards
Four alternativesAzeus Convene, Board Intelligence, BoardPAC, iDeals Virtual Data Room (VDR) Board Portal
Aprio Boardportal, BoardPro
One alternativeNasdaq Boardvantage
against: Boardable, Diligent Boards, Govenda, OnBoard, iDeals
Diligent Boards
Three alternativesAlphaSights, BoardEffect, Intralinks
against: Microsoft SharePoint
Kimi K2Diligent Boards
Two alternativesNasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
Diligent BoardsHeld
Two alternativesNasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
Diligent Boards
Four alternativesBoardEffect, Computershare Board Portal, Nasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
Govenda
One alternativeAppDeck
against: BoardEffect, Diligent Boards, Nasdaq Boardvantage
no first choiceagainst: Aprio Board Portal, Azeus Convene, Diligent Boards, OnBoardagainst: Diligent Boards
GLM 4.7 FlashXDiligent Boards
Two alternativesNasdaq Boardvantage, OnBoard
Diligent BoardsHeld
Two alternativesBoard Intelligence, Nasdaq Boardvantage
Diligent Boards, Nasdaq Boardvantage
Six alternativesAzeus Convene, BoardEffect, Boardable, OnBoard, Sherpany, iBabs
BoardPro
One alternativeBoardable
against: Diligent Boards
no first choiceagainst: Diligent Boards
MiniMax M2.5no first choiceDiligent Boards, Nasdaq BoardvantageChanged
Two alternativesComputershare Board Portal, Ideals Board
Diligent Boards
Two alternativesBoardMaps, Nasdaq Boardvantage
AppDeck, Aprio Board Portal
Two alternativesBoardPro, Govenda
against: Azeus Convene, Diligent Boards, Nasdaq Boardvantage
Diligent Boards
Three alternativesBoardEffect, Govenda, Nasdaq Boardvantage
against: Diligent Boards
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-04 21:38yes98 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-04 21:42yes24 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 21:37yes1120 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-04 21:38yes183 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 21:24yes239 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 21:41yes117 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 21:22yes2232 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-04 21:36yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-04 21:24yes522 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-04 21:39yes1516 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-04 21:42yes2227 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 21:37yes513 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-04 21:28yes98 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-04 21:42yes36 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 21:41yes1119 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-04 21:22yes184 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 21:25yes238 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 21:30yes54 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 21:41yes2317 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-04 21:43yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-04 21:41no026 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-04 21:30yes1835 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-04 21:36yes2058 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 21:27yes1729 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-04 21:22yes159 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-04 21:34yes37 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 21:32yes1326 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-04 21:42yes194 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 21:25yes2310 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 21:33yes119 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 21:38yes2336 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-04 21:26yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-04 21:27yes1027 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-04 21:35yes2325 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-04 21:30yes1244 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 21:41yes918 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-04 21:32yes97 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-04 21:33yes34 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 21:31yes1429 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-04 21:42yes203 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 21:21yes209 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 21:24yes55 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 21:27yes2027 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-04 21:34yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-04 21:25yes2144 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-04 21:42yes2223 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-04 21:32yes2319 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 21:21yes1847 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-04 21:30yes1811 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-04 21:21yes38 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 21:27yes1124 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-04 21:24yes165 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 21:35yes199 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 21:29no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 21:30yes2344 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-04 21:40yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-04 21:42no028 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-04 21:20yes1960 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-04 21:33yes2022 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 21:39yes520 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-04 21:27yes1710 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-04 21:32yes35 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-04 21:26yes2228 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-04 21:41yes184 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-04 21:31yes2212 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-04 21:39yes55 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-04 21:43yes2145 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-04 21:21yes52 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-04 21:37no027 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-04 21:28yes2025 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-04 21:31yes1333 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-04 21:34yes2242 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
Aprio read as Aprio Board Portal
Diligent read as Diligent Boards
Diligent (BoardEffect) read as Diligent Boards
Diligent (formerly Boardable/iBoard) read as Diligent Boards
Unresolved, counted raw
Admin Portal
AgileBoard
AlphaSights
Ansarada Board
Aprio Boardportal
Azeus
BoardiGO
IntelliBoard
Intralinks Boardroom
Knowa
Microsoft SharePoint
MinuteSmith
Nlyte
Paperless Board Meetings / Azeus Convene
Virtual Board
iDeals Virtual Data Room (VDR) Board Portal
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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