Governance platform · built for UK boards
The system of record for the modern UK boardroom.
BoardServe gives company secretaries and boards one secure place to run effectiveness reviews, skills audits, AI governance and compliance, with the audit trail to evidence every decision.
Aligned to the UK Corporate Governance CodeUK & EU data residency
Active cycle
Q1 Board Effectiveness Review
Responses
18/21
Completion
86%
Board effectiveness
9 directors
Committee review
Audit & Risk
AI governance maturity
Organisation
Trusted by boards across regulated and listed UK organisations
- Listed & FTSE companies
- Financial services
- NHS & public sector
- Higher education
- Housing associations
- Charities & trusts
The board year, without the chaos
Governance is too important to run on email and spreadsheets.
Effectiveness reviews stall in inboxes. Skills matrices live in a forgotten workbook. Declarations of interest arrive late, if at all. And when the auditors or the regulator ask how the board assured itself, the evidence is scattered.
BoardServe brings the whole governance cycle into one place (structured, secure and defensible), so company secretaries spend less time assembling and more time advising the board.
One platform, the whole governance cycle
Everything a board needs to assess, evidence and improve.
Purpose-built modules for the work governance teams actually do, not a generic survey tool bent into shape.
Board effectiveness reviews
Run an annual evaluation the board actually trusts.
Assess the board, its committees, the chair and individual directors in a single cycle. Collect candid input without survey fatigue, then turn findings into a clear action plan you can track to the next review.
- Board, committee, chair and individual director evaluations
- Internal or externally facilitated reviews
- Findings to action plan, tracked between cycles
Board skills audits
Build a living skills matrix, capture subject-matter expertise and surface gaps against strategy, succession and diversity.
Competency mapping · gap analysis · succession-ready
AI governance
Give the board genuine oversight of AI risk with structured maturity assessments aligned to ISO/IEC 42001 and the EU AI Act.
Individual · departmental · organisational maturity
Compliance & declarations
Collect declarations of interests and conflicts against clear deadlines, with confirmations and a complete audit trail.
Requests · reminders · defensible records
Analytics & board-ready reports
Turn responses into written reports, scoped by participant or whole cycle and exported to Word for the board pack.
Scoped insights · Word export · trend tracking
Document review
Self-assess governance documents against a reference catalogue, score each area 0–4 with attached evidence, and get an advisory AI check on your top scores.
Reference catalogue · advisory AI check · versioned report
Boards & meetings
Administer boards and committees, assemble meeting packs, and keep attendance, actions and training on track, with calendar (ICS) circulation and renewal reminders.
Packs · attendance & actions · ICS · training renewals
Also includesa secure document library with versioning · 360-degree and external assessments.
Made for the whole governance team
One platform, three points of view.
Company secretaries & governance leads
Run the governance year end-to-end: assign assessments, track progress in real time, close cycles and produce board-ready outputs without chasing spreadsheets.
Boards & committee members
Complete appraisals, skills audits and self-assessments in minutes, on any device, with clear questions written for senior, time-constrained directors.
Risk, compliance & AI governance leads
Coordinate AI governance questionnaires, identify maturity gaps, manage declarations and evidence compliance with auditors and regulators.
Defensible by design
Built for the UK Corporate Governance Code, and ready for Provision 29.
From financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2026, in-scope boards must declare the effectiveness of their material internal controls. BoardServe is the system of record that turns your annual review and assurance activity into a clear, time-stamped evidence base, so the declaration, and the board effectiveness review behind it, stand up to scrutiny.
Free tool
Where does your governance actually stand?
Fifteen questions for your role. You get a one-page summary of where you are, what the gaps cost you, and what BoardServe does about each one.
15 questions20 minutes
Question 3 of 15
When you need a fact from a past pack, you can point to the exact page.
What BoardServe does: Ask answers plain-English questions across the packs you are allowed to see and returns the exact page. It says it cannot answer rather than inventing something.
Security & trust
Board material is the most sensitive data you hold. We treat it that way.
UK & EU data residency, encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access scoped by organisation, and audit trails on every action, with UK GDPR alignment throughout.
Built on governance expertise
BoardServe is shaped by decades of board-level governance practice, co-founded by Karl George MBE, founder of The Governance Forum and creator of the Governance Assessment Process endorsed by the late Sir Adrian Cadbury.
Insights
Governance, clearly explained.
Annual Board Calendar Template (UK): A 12-Month Governance Planner
A complete annual board calendar template for UK boards, month by month, with the Companies Act 2006 filing and meeting deadlines behind it, the effectiveness review and audit cycles mapped in, a standing items table, and variants for charities, housing associations and NHS bodies.
16 min read
Board Effectiveness Review Report Template: The Full Structure and Model Wording
A complete board effectiveness review report template, section by section, with model wording, a worked findings section and action plan, the verbatim Provision 23 disclosure requirement, illustrative annual report paragraphs for internal and externally facilitated years, and sector notes for charities and the NHS.
16 min read
Board Induction Checklist for New Directors (UK)
A complete board induction checklist for UK directors and trustees, phased across appointment, the first 30 days, the first 90 days and the first year, with the Companies Act 2006 duties behind it, a sign-off record, a worked example, and sector notes for charities, NHS trusts and housing associations.
15 min readBook a demo
See BoardServe with your board's agenda in mind.
A focused 15-minute walkthrough with our governance team, tailored to your organisation, committees and reporting cycle; no obligation, no hard sell.