Who is this for
Built for one kind of board:
the 5-to-15 director nonprofit board.
See whether that is yours, and what your first board cycle looks like. $74/month for EIN-verified 501(c)(3)s, $149/month for other boards — flat per board, monthly, no contract.
What to expect
How your first board cycle works with I'mBoard.
From signup to your next board meeting — here's the timeline.
Day 1: Setup in under 30 minutes
Create your board and its committees, add directors, set the meeting schedule. Import last year's minutes and bylaws or start from a template. No onboarding call required — though a real person is available if you want one.
Week 1-2: Sections come in without chasing
I'mBoard asks your treasurer, program leads, and committee chairs for their sections and reminds them on a schedule — three reminders over ten days — so the chasing is not yours to do.
Week 2-3: Assembly
The packet is assembled — AI drafts the executive director's report intro and the section summaries, you review and edit. Starting from 80% done.
Week 3: Distribution
The packet goes to directors a week before the meeting as a zero-login link — one tap on any device, no password to reset the night before.
Day of: The meeting
Everyone works from the same packet, and decisions and action items are captured as they happen — not reconstructed afterward from memory.
After: Minutes and follow-ups
Minutes get finished while the meeting is fresh — formatted and filed in the archive. Action items are tracked with owners and deadlines, and the next meeting date is set.
This is for you if
You'll get the most value from I'mBoard when this sounds like your situation.
You're the executive director — and you staff the board
You report to the board and you support it: you co-own the agenda with the chair, assemble the packet, chase RSVPs, and too often take the minutes. A budget of roughly $250K to $10M, and the board-tool decision is yours to make.
Your board has 5 to 15 unpaid directors
Uncompensated, busy, with day jobs. Small enough that relationships matter, large enough that getting the packet to everyone — and getting everyone to open it — is real work.
You meet monthly or quarterly, with committees in between
A working board that meets monthly, or a $1M+ board that meets four to six times a year with finance and governance committees carrying the load in between. Either way, every committee is included.
The packet and the minutes are eating your month
The 100-page packet goes out the night before and nobody reads it. Minutes take a week to produce and months to approve. Last year's bylaws live in a departed volunteer's account.
You want a nonprofit price, published, without a sales call
Flat per board, monthly, cancel anytime — $149/month standard, $74/month for EIN-verified 501(c)(3)s. The price is on the site and the 15-member math is done for you.
You'd rather try it on a real cycle than sit through a demo
Open the live demo now, or start the trial and run your next actual board meeting on it — free until after that meeting, up to 60 days, no card.
This is NOT for you if
We'd rather save you the evaluation time.
We don't serve every board, and pretending we do would waste your time. Here's when I'mBoard isn't the right fit.
You're a public company or a regulated financial institution
If you need proxy management, SEC filing integration, or SOX compliance workflows — that's Diligent or Nasdaq Boardvantage territory. We don't do regulatory governance.
Your board has 25+ members and a governance office
Large boards with dedicated governance staff, full parliamentary procedure at every meeting, and enterprise procurement need an enterprise board portal. I'mBoard is built for the 5-to-15 member board where the executive director is the governance office.
You just need a document repository
If you only need a place to upload and share files — Google Drive or a shared folder works fine. I'mBoard's value is in running the cycle: the packet, the meeting record, the follow-ups.
Running a company board? There is a page for that.
A typical board cycle: before and after.
Not a testimonial. Just arithmetic. The time comes back from eliminating coordination overhead — chasing sections, reconciling numbers, assembling and re-sending the packet, reconstructing the minutes.
Before I'mBoard — the packet costs two days a cycle
A 12-member board that meets monthly. The executive director spends half a day chasing the treasurer and program leads for sections, half a day reconciling numbers, half a day assembling and sending the packet, and half a day fielding "which version is current?" the night before. Then the secretary spends a week getting the minutes out.
After I'mBoard — a few hours a cycle
Same board. Sections come in on their own, you assemble the packet in an afternoon, directors open a link, and the minutes get finished while the meeting is fresh. The executive director reviews the draft, edits the narrative, and sends. Hands-on time: a few hours.
The math
Cost: $74/month for a verified 501(c)(3) — $888/year, every director and every committee included. Recovered: roughly a day and a half of staff time per meeting. Those are hours that go back to programs — which is the case to make to a finance committee that reads board software as overhead.
Things people ask before signing up.
What kinds of organizations use I'mBoard?
Primarily 501(c)(3) nonprofits with budgets from about $250K to $10M and boards of 5 to 15 unpaid directors — plus the associations, fiscal sponsors, and company boards that arrive on the standard plan.
How is this different from Boardable or OnBoard?
Boardable prices per member and bills annually, so a 15-director nonprofit board pays for 15 seats that mostly open the packet twice a year. OnBoard publishes no price, quotes after a demo, and ties its nonprofit discount to a multi-year contract with auto-renew. I'mBoard is one flat monthly price per board with every director and every committee included, a trial that is free until after your next board meeting, and no contract. The 15-member math is on the nonprofit board page.
Do our directors need to be technical?
No. Directors get a zero-login link — they open the packet, read it, and are done. Staff manage everything from the workspace, which works like any board portal. The API and agent features are optional and aimed at operations managers who want to automate data collection.
What if our board is only 5 people?
Flat per board, no seat minimums — a five-person board pays the same flat price as a fifteen-person one, and staff contributors cost nothing extra.
Can we switch from another board tool?
Yes. Import your minutes, bylaws, and past packets, and run your next meeting on I'mBoard. We don't lock you in — full-archive export is free, forever.
Is our board data secure?
TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 encryption at rest. Role-based access controls with 21 API token scopes, instant revocation, audit trails, and billing-state enforcement. See our Security page for details.
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Sound like your board?
Start free — free until after your next board meeting — up to 60 days, no credit card. Or open the live demo: no signup, no sales call.