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Board governance with a permanent memory

Free your board.
Empower your mission.

TrueBoard is the first board platform built for organizations that have outgrown shared drives and group texts — files, chat, minutes, and motions in one permanent record. Less paperwork. More ministry.

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The board governance gap

Your board deserves better than free tools that weren't built for governance.

Most small boards run on a duct-taped stack of shared drives, group texts, and email. It costs them every time leadership turns over, leading to governance failures that compound over time.

Permissions break the moment leadership turns over.

Google Drive shares are tied to people, not roles. New treasurer? Old chair still has access to everything. New secretary? They can't open the bylaws.

Your board's memory lives on someone's phone.

Group texts vanish when members change devices. Free chat apps cap history at 90 days. Either way, the moment you need to look back at why a decision was made, it's gone.

Minutes and motions live in scattered docs.

Agenda in Google Docs, attendance in a spreadsheet, motions in someone's notebook, follow-ups in email. Nothing connects to anything.

Four pillars, one record

Everything your board does — connected, permanent, and yours.

Six months from now, someone will ask why the board approved that. The answer lives in a chat thread, a PDF, a motion, and a vote tally — and when those live in different apps, no one can stitch them back together. Accountability quietly breaks. TrueBoard keeps them in one record.

Files that respect roles

Permissions follow position, not people. New treasurer? They get every financial document automatically.

  • Role-based access
  • Full version history
  • Audit trail per file

Chat that's permanent

Every message, channel, and DM becomes part of your board's permanent record. No 90-day cliff.

  • Channels & threads
  • Linked to files
  • Searchable forever

Meetings & minutes

Templates for every kind of meeting. The whole board edits minutes together, live.

  • Pre-built templates
  • Collaborative editing
  • Attendance & approval

Motions & votes

Robert's Rules of Order, made simple. Vote in the room or remotely — every motion logged.

  • In-person + remote
  • Robert's Rules built-in
  • Tamper-proof tally

Feature deep dives

Files

Permissions that survive board turnover.

When a new treasurer joins, they shouldn't have to email three people for access to last year's audit. TrueBoard binds permissions to roles, not individuals — and shows you exactly who saw what, when.

  • Role-based permissions. Treasurer, secretary, chair — files follow the role, not the person.
  • Full audit trail. See who edited every document and when.
  • Version history. Roll back to any prior version. Compare two side by side.
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Chat

A team chat that becomes part of the record.

Consumer chat wasn't built to be a board's record. Free tiers cap history at 90 days; group texts die with the phone. TrueBoard chat is purpose-built for governance — permanent, searchable, and linked to your files and motions.

  • Channels instead of one giant thread. Conversations organized by topic — finance, building, ministry — instead of buried in one endless group text alongside birthday photos and reminders.
  • Linked context. Reference files, motions, and meeting notes inline. Click through and see them in context.
  • Search forever, even years later. New board members inherit the full chat history. No more "ask the previous treasurer" — just search.
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Meetings

From agenda to minutes to motions, in one flow.

Pick a template, distribute the agenda, take attendance, and let every board member contribute to the minutes simultaneously. Approve them after the meeting — and they're sealed into the record.

  • Templates for every meeting. Session, annual, ministry reports, building committee — opinionated starting points.
  • Real-time co-editing. The whole board contributes to the minutes simultaneously, like a Google Doc designed for governance.
  • Attendance & approval. Take attendance with one tap. Approve minutes after the meeting and they're sealed.
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Motions

Every motion captured with procedure and proof.

Robert's Rules, modernized for hybrid boards. Whether you're voting around the conference table or polling absent members between meetings, the procedure runs itself — and the result is sealed into your permanent record.

  • Robert's Rules, simplified. Move, second, debate, vote — the structure is built in, not something you have to remember.
  • In-person + remote. Vote around the table or send the motion to absent members. Every ballot is logged.
  • Tamper-proof tally. Cryptographically sealed results that stand up to any future review.
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Why TrueBoard

Built for boards. Not retrofitted from a generic tool.

How TrueBoard compares to the most common ways small boards manage themselves today.

CapabilityTrueBoardGoogle Drive + SlackGeneric board portal
Built for board governance
Permanent chat history90-day cliff (free)
Permissions that follow rolesSometimes
Robert's Rules motion tracking
Templates for board meetingsGeneric only
Audit trail per documentLimited
Pricing for small boards$49/moFree$165+/mo
Designed mobile-first

Comparison reflects standard plans as of 2026. Generic-tool features vary by setup.

Generic tools require discipline to use well; TrueBoard enforces it by design.

Less paperwork

Board paperwork you can stop doing today.

When everything lives in one permanent record, the daily friction just disappears.

  • Emailing the previous treasurer for last year's audit.
  • Scrolling through 8 months of group texts to find a vote.
  • Reformatting minutes after every meeting.
  • Wondering if the latest agenda is the one in someone's inbox.
  • Tracking down who's missing from a quorum count.
  • Re-onboarding new members from scratch.

None of these are catastrophes. But small frictions like these quietly erode trust and continuity over years.

Pricing

Pricing that fits a ministry budget.

Every plan includes the full TrueBoard platform. Three flat tiers sized by your church, not your board — with generous storage included at every level.

Foundation

For boards establishing their permanent record.

$49/ month

Up to 100 regular attenders

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  • All four pillars
  • 25 GB included storage
  • 60-day free trial

Growth

For established boards scaling their governance.

$79/ month

100–500 regular attenders

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  • Everything in Foundation
  • 100 GB included storage
  • Compliance dashboard

Cornerstone

For multi-campus or denominational governance.

$99/ month

500+ attenders or multi-campus

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  • Everything in Growth
  • 250 GB included storage
  • Multi-campus support
Frequently asked

Everything you'd want to know before signing up.

Privacy by design

Your board's data isn't our business model.

Most platforms quietly turn the people they serve into the product. We built TrueBoard the other way around.

No tracking, ever

No marketing cookies, no session replay, no behavioral profiles. We don't study your board to grow our product.

Never sold, never used to train AI

Your data isn't a revenue stream. We don't sell it, share it for advertising, or train models on it. Period.

Minimal by design

We collect only what it takes to run your board — and even our site analytics are engineered so they can't identify you.

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