# AI Boardroom

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**In short.** AI Boardroom (Five AI executives that debate a founder's decision, Bulgaria): US$25 monthly recurring revenue, October 2026. Evidence grade A: disclosed by a company or a filing, or verified by a payment processor. Team: 1 founder ("Built by one founder"). Launched 11 February 2026; still running.

Five AI executives that debate a founder's decision · Bulgaria · AI-native · solo founder · still running · group: Tools for using AI models

- Outcome: US$25 monthly recurring revenue, October 2026 (evidence grade of the headline number: A; headline in US dollars: 25)
- Launch: 11 February 2026; months from launch to the outcome: 8
- Team: 1 founder ("Built by one founder")
- Outside funding: None reported
- Main factor: Packaging
- Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 3, copyable pattern 3, capital needed 1
- Tags: AI-native, Solo founder, Bootstrapped, Running, B2B, Business decisions

Links:

- Visit aiboardroomlab.com: https://aiboardroomlab.com/
- Verified revenue on TrustMRR: https://trustmrr.com/startup/ai-boardroom

**The product.** A web app for founders. You describe your company once, then type a decision you are stuck on. Five AI executives (a CFO, CMO, CPO, CTO and COO, each with a name and different priorities) answer, react to each other, vote, and give a verdict with risks and a next step. It runs on OpenAI models. The first board meeting is free; plans cost US$25 or US$49 a month.

**Why it worked.** A single chat with a general AI model gives one voice that tends to agree with the question. AI Boardroom sets up five roles with different priorities, gives each one the company profile, and forces a vote and a verdict, so the user does not have to write that prompt every time. It is a packaging of a known prompt technique into a product with a fixed format, a saved decision journal and a monthly price.

Evidence grades: A = disclosed by a public company, a filing or a payment processor, or verified by one; B = two or more independent reports agree, or a journalist confirmed it; C = a founder claim that no one else verified; D = reported, not verified: one founder claim or a third-party estimate with no second source; calc = computed on this page from graded facts.

## Summary

AI Boardroom is a multi-persona chat product: one AI model is asked to play several characters, here five company executives, each with its own goals. The user adds a short company profile (stage, customers, revenue, runway) and asks a question such as "Should we raise our price from US$29 to US$49?". The five personas answer, flag risks and vote; a second model writes the verdict. A sample meeting on the site, dated 23 October 2026, names the models: gpt-5-nano for the executives and gpt-5-mini for the verdict.

The founder, Svetloslav Novoselski, lists the company in Bulgaria on TrustMRR, a site that reads revenue directly from a startup's payment provider through an API key. TrustMRR gives 11 February 2026 as the founding date; the Internet Archive first captured the site on 27 February 2026. TrustMRR's Stripe connection shows one payment of US$25 on 21 October 2026, all-time revenue of US$25, current MRR (monthly recurring revenue, the subscription income expected every month) of US$25 and one active subscription.

The headline number is small but it is grade A: it comes from the payment processor, not from the founder. It equals the price of one Founder plan. This page is useful as an early example: the product is complete and priced, and the evidence shows exactly where it stands eight months after the founding date.

## Pricing

AI Boardroom prices read from its pricing page on 3 November 2026 (grade C)

| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free first meeting | 0 | 0 | 1 board meeting with up to 5 follow-ups |
| Founder | 20.83 | 25 | about 15 board meetings a month |
| Board | 40.83 | 49 | about 50 board meetings a month, stronger model, custom personalities |
| Credits, 100 | 9.99 one-time |  | pay as you go |
| Credits, 500 | 39.99 one-time |  | pay as you go |
| Credits, 1000 | 69.99 one-time |  | pay as you go |

The first board meeting is free, with up to five follow-up questions and no card. Yearly billing costs 10 months' price for 12 months: US$250 for Founder and US$490 for Board; the per-month figures below are those totals divided by 12. A meeting is an opening round plus two follow-ups; chats, what-ifs and the quick tools use the same monthly allowance. Credits can also be bought without a plan. Two Board features are marked "Coming soon".

## How much revenue does AI Boardroom make? The numbers, graded

One verified subscription of US$25 a month in October 2026, read from Stripe by TrustMRR

| Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current monthly recurring revenue | US$25 | A | TrustMRR metric snapshot from the Stripe API connection; revenue last synced 26 October 2026. The live profile read on 3 November 2026 shows the same value. | [1] |
| Active subscriptions | 1 | A | TrustMRR metric snapshot from Stripe. | [1] |
| All-time verified revenue | US$25 | A | One payment of US$25 on 21 October 2026 (UTC). Every other day in the daily table is US$0. Monthly timeline: 2026-10, US$25. | [1] |
| Revenue after the first payment | US$0 from 22 October to 4 November 2026 | A | Daily table in the live profile read on 3 November 2026. The profile also says the Stripe API key expired on 27 October 2026 at 03:26 UTC, so later days may not be synced. | [1] |
| Run rate from the current MRR | US$300 a year | calc | Calculated: US$25 times 12. | [1] |
| Match with the price list | US$25 equals one Founder plan billed monthly | calc | Calculated: compares the verified MRR with the pricing page. It does not prove which plan the subscriber chose. | [1, 3] |
| Founding date | 11 February 2026 | C | Founder-entered field on the TrustMRR profile. | [1] |
| First Internet Archive capture of the site | 27 February 2026 | B | Wayback CDX record; further captures on 16 March and 23 April 2026. The February copy loads by script and shows only the title "AI Boardroom - Your Virtual Executive Team". | [6] |
| Team | 1 founder | C | Home page: "Built by one founder. Email me anything. I read every message." signed by Svetloslav, founder. TrustMRR profile: "Built by one founder". | [2, 1] |
| Country | Bulgaria | C | TrustMRR profile field "Country: BG", entered by the founder. | [1] |
| AI models | OpenAI API; gpt-5-nano for the executives, gpt-5-mini for the verdict | C | FAQ on the home page and the footer of the sample meeting page dated 23 October 2026. Board plan: "a stronger AI model in every seat". | [2, 4] |
| Payments | Stripe | A | TrustMRR: "Verified payment provider API source: Stripe (API key)". The pricing page says "Secure checkout with Stripe". | [1, 3] |
| Price comparison used in the marketing | five executives at US$990,000 a year against US$25 a month | C | The home page calls these "Estimates: US base salaries at seed to Series A startups, before equity" and adds that the AI board "won't replace a great hire". | [2] |
| Advice disclaimer | not financial, legal or investment advice | C | Home page FAQ and section 6 of the terms: AI output is "for informational purposes only" and users "should always consult with qualified professionals". | [2, 5] |
| Estimated user count on TrustMRR | 0 | C | Founder-entered field, which disagrees with the one active subscription that Stripe shows. | [1] |
| Outside funding | none reported | C | No source mentions investors. | [1, 2] |
| Time from founding date to the first payment | 8 months (252 days) | calc | Calculated: 11 February 2026 to 21 October 2026. | [1] |

How to read this table: grade A values come from TrustMRR's connection to the company's Stripe account. Grade B is the Internet Archive's own record. Grade C values are the company's own pages or founder-entered profile text. A "calc" value (grade X) was computed on this page.

## When did AI Boardroom launch, and how did it grow? Timeline

From the founding date to the first verified payment, in eight months. Each entry carries its grade.

- **11 February 2026** (grade C [1]): Founding date entered on the TrustMRR profile.
- **27 February 2026** (grade B [6]): First Internet Archive capture of aiboardroomlab.com, titled "AI Boardroom - Your Virtual Executive Team".
- **16 March and 23 April 2026** (grade B [6]): Further archive captures; the site is live.
- **21 October 2026** (grade A [1]): First verified payment: US$25 through Stripe.
- **23 October 2026** (grade C [4]): The company publishes an unedited sample board meeting for a made-up company, with the models named.
- **26 October 2026** (grade A [1]): Last revenue sync on TrustMRR: MRR US$25, one active subscription. The Stripe API key expires the next day.
- **3 November 2026** (grade C [3, 8]): Plans at US$25 and US$49 a month, a free first meeting, credits, and two free calculators for founders.

## Why did AI Boardroom work?

### A fixed format instead of a blank chat

Every meeting has the same shape: five answers, each with a vote (approve, concern, reject) and a blind spot, then a verdict, a list of risks and a next step. The home page argues that a single chat gives one agreeing voice and no verdict, and shows the two side by side.

### The company profile as shared context

The user writes the profile once and every persona receives it, so answers refer to the user's own runway, customers and prices. The sample meeting shows the personas quoting the made-up company's churn, runway and signups.

### Cheap models for the debate

The free sample meeting uses gpt-5-nano for the five executives and gpt-5-mini only for the verdict. Small models keep the cost of a five-voice meeting low enough for a plan of about 15 meetings for US$25 a month; the Board plan pays for a stronger model.

### Free first meeting, no card

The visitor types a question on the home page before signing in and gets a full meeting with five follow-ups free. The site also offers two free calculators (when to quit a job, what US$10,000 MRR needs) that bring founders to the page.

## How it was built

These details come from the company's own pages and the TrustMRR profile.

- Built and run by one founder, who answers email himself.
- The AI is OpenAI models through the OpenAI API: gpt-5-nano for the five executives and gpt-5-mini for the verdict in the free meeting.
- Subscriptions and credit packs are sold through Stripe checkout; TrustMRR reads the Stripe account to verify revenue.
- Sign-in with Google or email. The page files are served from a /_next/ path, which is how the Next.js framework names them.
- Features beyond meetings: one-to-one and group chats, a What-If simulator, a quick poll, goals, meeting preparation, a decision journal with AI notes and a decision memo export.

Sources: [2, 3, 4, 1]

## Who tried this before AI Boardroom, and why did they fail?

Four companies in our database of failed startups tried to sell quick advice or a second opinion on decisions, from crowds or from human experts. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.

The failed startups come from our database of dead startups, retold here in our own words; Its entries are AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so they carry no evidence grade.

### Thumb (2011 to 2015; funding US$12.5M; cause: Competition)

- Promise: Real-time opinions from a crowd of users, to end decision paralysis.
- Why it died: Facebook and Twitter added polls and direct replies; users did not come back often enough to pay for the app.
- Record: 

### AirPair (2014 to 2017; funding US$250K; cause: Competition)

- Promise: On-demand video sessions with expert developers.
- Why it died: Not enough experts and buyers at once, and free help on Stack Overflow was good enough for most questions.
- Record: 

### AskTina (2017 to 2020; funding US$3.9M; cause: No Market Need)

- Promise: Paid live video consultations with experts, started from their blogs.
- Why it died: Readers did not want live sessions, and fewer experts than expected wanted to sell their time this way.
- Record: 

### Passel (2016 to 2018; funding US$300K; cause: No Market Need)

- Promise: One app for group coordination and shared decisions.
- Why it died: It repeated features of existing chat apps, and people would not move their groups to a new app.
- Record: 

## What changed

The predecessors sold advice that needed other people: a crowd that had to show up, or an expert whose hour had to be scheduled and paid. Both sides of such a marketplace had to grow at the same time, and free alternatives (social media polls, Stack Overflow) took most of the demand.

AI Boardroom needs no second side. The five "executives" are one language model in five roles, available at any hour, and a small model makes each meeting cheap. What it has not yet shown is the demand side: in October 2026 Stripe recorded one subscriber. The same free alternative that hurt the predecessors exists here too, since anyone can ask a general chat app to play a CFO.

## Can one person copy AI Boardroom now?

**Verdict: Easy to copy; the open question is demand.**

The product is a prompt structure (several roles, shared context, a vote and a verdict) wrapped in a web app with a monthly price. One person built it with off-the-shelf models and Stripe. The hard part is not the build but getting founders to pay instead of prompting a general chat app themselves.

1. Pick a decision format that a general chat app does not give by default, and make every answer follow it.
2. Collect the user's context once and send it with every call.
3. Use the smallest model that keeps the format, and sell a stronger model as the upgrade.
4. Let visitors run one full session before sign-in, and publish a real, unedited sample output.
5. Connect the payment account to a public revenue verifier so readers can see the true numbers.

**What is still open.** Role-based panels for other groups that make decisions alone: freelancers, small shop owners, hiring managers, people choosing a product stack.

## What could go wrong for AI Boardroom?

- **One subscriber so far.** All verified revenue is a single US$25 payment on 21 October 2026, and the live profile shows no further payments to 4 November 2026. One customer can cancel. The Stripe API key on TrustMRR expired on 27 October 2026, so the profile may stop updating.
- **A general chat app can do much of it.** The FAQ itself says a user "could get close with a very careful prompt every time". The product's value is the fixed format, the saved journal and the convenience, which buyers may not pay for.
- **Not professional advice.** The personas have job titles such as CFO, but the site and the terms say clearly that the output is not financial, legal or investment advice and that users should consult qualified professionals. The salary comparison on the home page is marked as an estimate.
- **Old text in the script and the terms.** The site's script bundle still holds unused strings from an earlier version: a "Trusted by Founders" testimonials heading and "Trusted by founders at" with no quotes or company names, a "7-Day Money Back Guarantee", and an FAQ answer about "fine-tuned" models. None of them appears on the live pages, which name OpenAI models and show no testimonials. The terms say "Last updated: January 27, 2025", a year before the founding date, and give no company name or country.
- **Founder-entered fields disagree with Stripe.** TrustMRR's founder-entered "Estimated user count" is 0, while the Stripe data shows one active subscription. The founding date and country are also founder-entered.

## Sources

1. TrustMRR: AI Boardroom profile (Stripe-verified revenue), read 3 November 2026; earlier copy downloaded 27 October 2026 — https://trustmrr.com/startup/ai-boardroom.md (grade A). Read the markdown profile in full, both copies. The Verification Sources, Revenue and Metric Snapshots sections are grade A; the profile fields and Startup Insights are founder-entered, grade C.
2. AI Boardroom home page: Don't decide alone — https://aiboardroomlab.com/ (grade C). Read in full on 3 November 2026. Source for the product, the team statement, the FAQ (OpenAI API, advice disclaimer) and the salary comparison.
3. AI Boardroom pricing page — https://aiboardroomlab.com/pricing (grade C). Read in full on 3 November 2026. Source for the plans, the credit packs and Stripe checkout; yearly prices from the FAQ on the home page.
4. AI Boardroom: A real board meeting, unedited (dated 23 October 2026) — https://aiboardroomlab.com/sample-meeting (grade C). Read in full. Source for the meeting format and the model names.
5. AI Boardroom Terms and Conditions — https://aiboardroomlab.com/terms (grade C). Read in full. Source for the AI-advice disclaimer, the refund terms and the "Last updated" date.
6. Internet Archive Wayback Machine: capture list and 27 February 2026 copy of aiboardroomlab.com — http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=aiboardroomlab.com (grade B). Read the capture list. The 27 February 2026 copy loads by script; only its title could be read.
7. AI Boardroom home page script bundle (layout chunk) — https://aiboardroomlab.com/_next/static/chunks/app/layout-4b0d451fee4283c6.js (grade C). Searched for testimonials, customer counts, countdowns and adviser claims. Found only unused interface strings from an earlier version, no quotes or names.
8. AI Boardroom: Free tools for founders — https://aiboardroomlab.com/tools (grade C). Read in full. Lists the two free calculators.
9. Database of failed startups, local export — /method/#dead (grade C). Local export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.