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Notes on modern directorship
Practical writing on governance, board packs, portfolio management, and the tools directors actually use.
MyDirector-OS is Built for the Professional Director.
This week the MyDirector-OS Journal examined how directors should use AI, what the law now requires and what good AI governance at board level actually looks like.
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82% of directors are now using AI for board work. Only 6% have a formal policy governing how they use it.
26 August 2026
How Should Directors Use AI?
82% of directors are now using generative AI for board work. Only 6% have a formal policy governing how they use it.
24 August 2026
Governance for the Unpredictable World.
The geopolitical governance challenge facing directors in 2026 is real, specific and personal. But it is also manageable. What it requires…
21 August 2026
From Concept to Today
A year ago MyDirector-OS was a question.
20 August 2026
The World Has Changed!
Something shifted in boardrooms between 2021 and 2025. It was not a governance initiative. It was not a regulatory requirement. It was the…
19 August 2026
The Board Has Never Seen a World Like This.
For most of the last decade, geopolitical risk has not been top of the agenda. In the jurisdictions where professional directors do most of…
17 August 2026
The Infrastructure Behind MyDirector-OS.
MyDirector-OS was built from the ground up to protect professional directors, with multiple layers of security working together.
14 August 2026
Directors and Cyber Risk. An Honest Assessment.
The regulatory frameworks are clear. Cyber risk is a board matter. Directors are accountable. But cyber risk within their organisations and…
12 August 2026
Who Protects the Director?
The governance frameworks that regulate how directors oversee cyber risk within their organisations have advanced significantly in recent…
10 August 2026
The Rise of the Emerging Manager
In this edition of the MyDirector-OS Journal we look at what is driving the emerging manager wave, and the governance elements that few…
7 August 2026
A Directors Workspace
A $2.9 billion market. Every platform in it built for the company. Not one built specifically for directors.
5 August 2026
An Honest Picture
According to OnBoard's 2025 Board Effectiveness Survey, 57% of boards still receive materials via email.
3 August 2026
This is what a director's operating system should look like.
Not a board portal, not a generic AI tool, not Gmail. Something built specifically for the professional life of a director.
31 July 2026
AI Was Built for Everyone. BoardLens Is Built for Directors.
AI was built for everyone. That is precisely the problem. In this edition of the MyDirector-OS Journal we explore the difference between…
29 July 2026
Finally. An AI Tool Built for Directors
The question being asked in boardrooms and at governance events across the world is no longer whether AI can help directors. It is which AI.
27 July 2026
What's Your Defence?
Defence is no longer a niche allocation. It is becoming a core asset class. Once excluded from institutional portfolios on ESG grounds, it…
24 July 2026
What is MyDirector-OS?
MyDirector-OS is the private, secure workspace built exclusively for directors, providing one place for everything the role demands.
23 July 2026
The Next Wave
Tokenised funds are no longer a future concept, they are here, they are institutional, and they are reshaping the fund landscape across…
22 July 2026
Rewiring the Boardroom
Twenty years ago, the Higgs Review defined what a non-executive director should be.
20 July 2026
Augmentation, Not Automation.
Directors are becoming more curious about AI and how it could help them.
17 July 2026
The 48 Hours Before a Board Meeting
Thursday afternoon. The pack lands. 250 pages. Friday, you're in back-to-back meetings. The pack sits in your inbox, you keep meaning to…
16 July 2026
What the Best Directors Have in Common
I have spent thirty years working in this industry, alongside executive directors, chairs of listed funds, NEDs on regulated structures.…
10 July 2026
Director Judgement
The argument that AI will replace directors misses the point entirely. Directors are not information processors. They are not compliance…
8 July 2026
The Invisible Workload of a Director
Nobody really talks about what happens between board meetings. The preparation. The reading. The tracking. The remembering.
6 July 2026
Closing the Governance Illusion Gap with MyDirector-OS
We talk constantly about good governance. We rarely talk about what makes it practically possible. Good governance is treated as a matter…
3 July 2026
The Director’s Dilemma
Most professional directors don't have a governance problem. They have an information problem.
2 July 2026
The Board Pack Problem
The Board Pack Problem - 200+ pages of documents 48 hours notice. One shot to get it right.
2 July 2026
The role of a company director has changed. Our tools haven’t
The role of a company director has changed. Our tools haven’t
1 July 2026
MyDirectorOS — The operating system for modern directors
After months of building - MyDirector-OS is live
1 July 2026