A decision taken, and minutes nobody rewrites.

The agenda is the board pack itself. While a vote is open nobody sees which way it is going — the chair included, a declared interest takes the vote on one item rather than the seat, and the minutes are frozen with a fingerprint the moment they are issued: a correction is the next version, never an edit of what was.

Run a vote now A meeting from the start

Beta: the platform runs — the agenda, motions, voting, conflicts of interest, the secret ballot and the minutes. What your own articles alone require is shaped with you.

A meeting from the start

From the notice to minutes with a fingerprint

A company board, a university board of trustees, the council of an association: the order is the same, and each step leaves behind the thing the next one stands on.

The secretariat
The agenda is the pack, not a list beside it

The items are the pack's own sections, in the pack's order, each carrying its presenter, its minutes allotted, its papers and what each is before the board for: decision, discussion or noting. So an agenda cannot drift from a file — moving the section is moving the item. A paper filed under no item is listed as such, and no item is invented for it.
Carries forward: items that each have their papers and their pages
Membership
Seats, not invitation lists

The chair and the members are seated on the board itself — directly, or from where the board sits in the organisation's tree — never on each meeting separately. The secretary runs the vote and holds none. And a seat taken after a motion opened did not have that motion put to it.
Carries forward: who holds a vote, by office rather than by anyone's memory
The papers
Numbering that can still be cited in two years

Papers are filed with their fingerprints and numbered once, and then the numbers do not move: a paper added an hour before the meeting takes a suffix — 12, then 12.1 — instead of pushing the rest down. The resolution that cited page 12 still points at page 12 when it is read at next year's meeting.
Carries forward: a citation that cannot shift under a resolution
The sitting
One page in front of the board

Whoever presides turns the page for everyone and hands the floor to the member presenting the item. Moving to an item is a mark on the log, and the time spent on each item is read from those marks whenever it is asked, never stored — while a mark naming no item reads as «between items», so no time is credited to something that is not there.
Carries forward: when each item was taken, and how long it took
Attendance and quorum
Who is in the room, and who is on the line

Attendance is derived from a log nobody can edit: the connection is the attendance, a member in the room is recorded from their code by a member of staff rather than by themselves, and a late arrival or an early departure is written with its time. The quorum is counted over those holding a vote who are present at the moment the vote closes.
Carries forward: attendance the minutes can be asked about
The motion
In the meeting, or by circulation

A motion is put in the sitting and decided when it closes, or circulated with a deadline and decided at it — or the moment the last voting member votes — and never closed early by hand; stopping one means withdrawing it. Whoever puts it picks the rule: what the majority is measured against, what must be reached, and whether the chair's side prevails on a tie.
Carries forward: a rule known before anyone votes
The vote
Secret until it closes, named once it has

While a vote is open everyone sees how many have voted and not how — the chair among them, and whoever runs it sees who has not voted yet, never a direction. Once closed every vote is named, dissent included, together with anyone who held a vote and did not use it. In a secret ballot the name never joins the direction at all.
Carries forward: a result recounted from the ballots, not a stored number
The minutes
The record writes them; the secretary writes what was said

The facts are written by the record itself — attendance and how, the quorum, each item with its papers, pages and time, each resolution with its rule and every vote by name — and the secretary writes only what was said. Issuing freezes the document under a fingerprint of its text, so a correction is the next version and the first stays beside it, marked superseded, with its own fingerprint.
And that is the point: minutes that need no trust in whoever keeps them

Run it yourself

Open the vote, and try to see which way anyone went

A board meeting: seven members, one of them absent, and a secretary who runs the vote and holds none. Open the ballot, let the votes come in, then close it — and flip either switch before you open it to watch the same motion decide differently.

Item 4 — next year's budget

Motion: adopt the budget with the expansion line cut by 15%

Measured on votes cast Threshold: a majority Chair's side prevails on a tie Open ballot Quorum 4

Secret ballot Chosen when the motion is put, and never switched after it opens. Dr Mona declares an interest in this item Recording one is refused while a vote on the item is open — the chair closes or withdraws it and puts it again.

Prepared data, for this page — the rules doing the counting are the platform's own.

And after the meeting

The minutes freeze, and a correction is the next version

The record has written the facts. Write the secretary's line and issue it — the fingerprint of the text is computed in your own browser, right now. Then try to correct it: you get a second version, and the first stays with its own fingerprint.

Minutes of the board meeting — 17 September 2026

Written by the record: opened 11:04 and closed 12:38. Six of seven members attended: four in the room and two on the line, and Laila Abdel-Aal arrived 9 minutes late. The quorum was met.

Item 4 — next year's budget: taken up at 11:46 for 21 minutes; its papers are pages 12 to 12.3. Carried on the votes cast.

And the secretary writes what was said:

The fingerprint is SHA-256 over the minutes with their keys in a fixed order — without that it could not be recomputed on the same version a year from now.

And no model writes the text: an automatic summary means your board's deliberations leaving your network.

Who this is for

Every board is asked the same thing: by what majority, and who was there?

One module; what changes is your own articles, and who asks about your decisions.

A company board

Decisions that get asked about later

An external auditor, a regulator, or a shareholder two years on: the question is always «by what majority, who was present, and on which paper?» — and the answer is in the minutes, with their pages and their fingerprint.

A university board

A board above a tree

The board, the faculties and the departments in one tree, and a member's seat reaches what sits under it without being added to every meeting. Faculty boards run on the same rules, in their own words.

An association or a union

A general assembly that asks about the ballot

A secret ballot that is secret where it counts: the choice is stored with no name and no time on it, while participation stays known and the result stays countable. Secret in the rows, not only on the screen.

An audit or executive committee

Frequent meetings, sensitive papers

A paper marked confidential opens for nobody who has no business in it, and an access log nobody can edit records who read it and who tried and was refused. That is a committee's first question, not «what changed?».

The secretariat

Whoever actually writes the minutes

The facts are already written — attendance, quorum, timings and every vote by name — so all that is left is what was said. A three-hour meeting's minutes go out the same day rather than the following week.

Where we drew the line

What we chose not to be

Every line here is a choice with a reason behind it — written here rather than in the footnote of a contract.

No proxy voting — a proxy is not modelled: whoever holds a seat votes themselves or does not vote. Articles that allow a proxy need a build, not a setting.
And a declaration belongs to one item of one meeting — not to a standing register of interests. A permanent register is a particular regulator's ask, so it is shaped with whoever is required to keep one.
And no certified electronic signature on the minutes — their authority is their fingerprint on Isnad's own record, which is what we say rather than calling it a signature.
And no automatic summary of a meeting — nor any intention of one: a summarising model means your board's deliberations leaving your network.
And the sound and the picture stay on the tool you already use — the live sitting here runs the papers, the attendance and the vote. We do not ask a board to leave the tool it meets on because we wrote one.
And a resolution is recorded and cited — following its implementation lives in your working systems rather than in the minutes, and what you want joined up to them is arranged with you.
And no encryption of files at rest yet — what protects the papers is that the server is your server, inside your network. That is a difference we state out loud rather than writing «encrypted» and going quiet.

Where we stand

A working core, with the board module built on it

Isnad is one core serving courts, arbitration centres, boards and training bodies. The board module is finished to the detail you can see on this page — what comes after it is ordered with you.

What the platform stands on

The agenda from the pack's sections, with each item's presenter, minutes and papers
Time per item read from the chair's marks, never stored
Chair and member seats, directly or down the organisation tree, and a secretary with no vote
A motion in the meeting or by circulation, with a rule and a threshold chosen when it is put
A ballot that shows no direction before it closes, and names every vote after it
A secret ballot stored with no voter and no time, leaving participation and quorum untouched
A declared interest that removes the vote on one item, and that item's quorum with it
The chair's casting vote, on an exact tie alone
Minutes written by the record, frozen under a SHA-256 fingerprint, corrected by a next version
The chair's approval of the minutes where the meeting requires it
A printable page, or a PDF made on the server with its own fingerprint
Numbered papers whose numbers do not move, Arabic search, and an access log nobody can edit