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Sample board paper

The paper you take into the room

An 18-page committee paper for a fictional retailer's AI portfolio: ten initiatives, recommendations, risks, and the evidence behind every figure.

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Sample board paper, page 1: Cover with your logo and the decision sought
Page 1 · Cover with your logo and the decision sought
Sample board paper, page 2: Contents
Page 2 · Contents
Sample board paper, page 3: Purpose, recommendations and executive summary
Page 3 · Purpose, recommendations and executive summary
Sample board paper, page 4: Background and analysis
Page 4 · Background and analysis
Sample board paper, page 8: Appendix A: each initiative and its evidence
Page 8 · Appendix A: each initiative and its evidence
Sample board paper, page 13: Appendix B: the evidence register
Page 13 · Appendix B: the evidence register

Sample paper: Meridian Retail Group is a fictional company and all figures are illustrative.

What your paper contains

Formal, editable and yours

  • Your name on it

    Your logo on the cover and every page, your committee, and document-control fields you complete. The Signal Band name appears only in the provenance appendix.

  • Recommendations a committee can resolve

    "That the Committee approves…": numbered resolutions, each tied to the figures behind it.

  • The evidence, in full

    Every claim with the evidence supplied for it, its type and its weight, so a director can see what each number rests on.

  • Editable

    A Word document you can adapt to your own board template, then save as a PDF to circulate.

See the two plansBoard papers are included in the Founder plan and the Commercial teams licence.