boardbenchmarking.com

What It Is

Board Benchmarking is a board governance assessment service supported by Insync, positioned around online board reviews, governance surveys, benchmarking reports, and performance improvement. It is not a general-purpose questionnaire tool; rather, it is a vertical assessment platform built around boards, directors, CEOs, leadership teams, and strategic effectiveness, with an emphasis on benchmarking results against a large board database.

Core Features and Collaboration

Its core modules include board effectiveness surveys, director effectiveness surveys, CEO effectiveness surveys, board skills matrices, leadership team effectiveness surveys, and strategy effectiveness surveys. The Board Effectiveness Survey is tiered by organization size into Lite, Essentials, Advanced, Premium, and other levels, with differences in the number of questions, effectiveness categories, open-ended questions, and estimated completion time. Paid versions are designed for the full board, with reports delivered to the chair or a designated recipient, and support comparison with historical results. Optional modules allow organizations to add executive surveys, director effectiveness scorecards, committee effectiveness scorecards, skills matrix reports, executive summaries, interview analysis, and board video presentations. In terms of permissions and collaboration, the available information only mentions mechanisms such as report recipients and anonymized aggregated executive feedback; no complex role-based permission configuration is described.

Pricing and Trial

Pricing is transparent and follows a “Design-your-own-review” model. The free trial survey is for a single user, takes about 4–5 minutes, and provides a simplified benchmark report. Board Effectiveness Survey pricing starts at Lite AUD 2,999, Essentials AUD 4,725, Advanced AUD 6,525, and Premium AUD 8,475. Add-ons are priced separately, such as executive participation, director/committee modules, skills matrices, expert executive summaries, and board presentations, making it suitable for purchasing based on the desired depth of review.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths are its high level of vertical specialization, with the official website disclosing methodology, sample reports, packages, and pricing, as well as offering a free trial. Its service experience comes from more than 600 boards, and results can be compared with over 700 boards; expert interpretation also helps make the findings more actionable. The limitations are that it is closer to a governance assessment SaaS plus consulting service, and is not suitable as a general collaboration, OKR, or performance management platform. It also does not disclose common enterprise IT procurement information such as APIs, third-party integrations, deployment options, security certifications, or payment methods.

Who It’s For and Access from China

It is suitable for listed companies, private companies, nonprofits, healthcare, education, government agencies, as well as board chairs, company secretaries, CEOs, and governance consultants conducting annual board evaluations, governance diagnostics, and skills matrix analysis. Access from mainland China is unknown, and payment, invoicing, and local-language support are not disclosed. If access or compliant procurement is restricted, organizations may consider working with local governance consulting firms combined with questionnaire platforms, or evaluating alternatives such as Diligent, OnBoard, and BoardClic.