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Boardly: AI-first board recruitment, live in eight weeks.

Boardly helps boards recruit Non-Executive Directors faster, using AI-assisted matching across experience, sector and behaviour. A two-developer team took it from idea to live MVP in 8 weeks, with 100+ NEDs onboarded since.

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Client
Boardly
Sector
Talent
Engagement
AI-Native Delivery · OutSystems Delivery
Duration
MVP delivered in 8 weeks

Board recruitment, rebuilt around fit, not keywords.

Boardly came to us with a clear thesis - the way Non-Executive Director recruitment works hasn't moved in a generation. CV-driven, keyword-matched, and blind to the things boards actually care about, communication style, lived experience, cultural fit.

They needed a feature-rich MVP covering the full journey from onboarding to hiring, with credibility tight enough for early investors and users. Eight weeks. No compromise on security, scalability or usability.

8 weeks
MVP to launch
100+
NEDs onboarded
2
Developers
Boardly dashboard and onboarding
Match with the right NEDs faster, with AI-driven CV analysis and voice-based culture-fit interviews.

An AI-driven platform built in eight weeks.

Voice-based culture-fit interviews. AI-driven interviews that read communication style and cultural cues, not just what's said, how it's said.

CV summarisation. Automated extraction of the experience and signals that actually matter to boards, surfaced where they help.

Intelligent matching. An engine that weights experience, sector alignment and behavioural traits, not just keyword overlap.

End-to-end journey. Onboarding, job posting, messaging, connection requests, payments, the full platform, not just the AI layer.

Cloud-native, modular. Built to scale from the founding cohort to whatever comes next, modular architecture from day one.

Production-grade from launch. Identity, audit, security and observability wired in, not a demo dressed up as a product.

The Doddle team absolutely nailed it, turned an ambitious idea into a live, scalable product in just eight weeks.
Sandy WillisCEO, Boardly
Boardly AI culture call
Boardly's AI culture call, providing insights beyond the CV to find the right fit for your board.

Live in 8 weeks. 100+ NEDs within days.

Boardly went live on schedule. Within days of launch, more than 100 Non-Executive Directors had joined the platform, early evidence of demand and a credible product to back the next funding conversation.

The platform continues to evolve. Doddle remain Boardly's long-term build partner.

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