Journal & Insights
Notes on modern directorship
Practical writing on governance, board packs, portfolio management, and the tools directors actually use.
WHAT DON'T WE KNOW?
Directors are appointed because of what they know and what they have experienced. Years spent building businesses, allocating capital, navigating difficult markets, managing people and making…
Read article →Board portals were built around the needs of the organisation and its board
MyDirector-OS starts somewhere different - with the director.
2 October 2026
Beyond the Board Portal: The Next Generation of Director Technology
The board portal transformed how boards operate. As the role of the individual director continues to evolve, another layer of governance…
30 September 2026
The role of the director has been evolving for generations. So too has the way information supports that role.
As companies grew and professional management developed, the distinction between executive management and independent oversight became…
28 September 2026
Evolution of Governance
Earlier this week, we asked whether governance expectations have evolved faster than the tools directors use to meet them.
25 September 2026
The Future of Governance Is Evidence
Directors are being expected to know more, oversee more and increasingly evidence more, yet the tools and information model supporting the…
23 September 2026
Why MyDirector-OS is necessary for Professional Directors
Twenty years ago, being a good director meant understanding the business, reading and understanding the papers, attending meetings,…
21 September 2026
When the Regulator Is Being Assessed, So Are You
FATF, MONEYVAL and CFATF assessments can easily be reduced to scores or ratings. But for directors, the real story is what happens next, as…
19 September 2026
Provision 29 - MyDirector-OS
Under Provision 29, boards are required to include a genuine declaration in their annual report, confirming whether material controls…
18 September 2026
Tokenisation - Part 2
The FCA and Bank of England have now published the industry's response on the future of tokenisation in UK wholesale markets, and the…
17 September 2026
Provision 29: More than a box ticking exercise?
For the first time, UK boards under the Corporate Governance Code must formally declare whether their material controls were actually…
16 September 2026
Ask a generic AI tool a governance question, and it will usually give you an answer
Whether that answer reflects the actual law in your actual jurisdiction is a different question entirely.
15 September 2026
Provision 29 applies to financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2026
Which means most affected boards are inside their first qualifying year now.
14 September 2026
THIS IS MYDIRECTOR-OS
The operating system modern directors have been waiting for.
11 September 2026
Claude Marx didn't reach for HAL 9000 to make headlines
He reached for it because HAL raises one real question: at what point does control quietly slip away from the people meant to hold it?
11 September 2026
The United States is live on MyDirector-OS
Live, verified, and built the way it should be: covering state-specific requirements, federal regulatory obligations, and listing rules…
10 September 2026
Digital Resilience in the Boardroom
The CSSF's Annual Report 2025 opens with its Director General invoking HAL 9000.
10 September 2026
CSSF Publishes Annual Report 2025
The CSSF has just published its Annual Report 2025. EUR 6.731 trillion in fund assets under management. A new AI supervision platform.…
7 September 2026
AI Governance and Governance for AI
This week the MyDirector-OS Journal examined the distinction between AI Governance and Governance for AI.
4 September 2026
The AI Governance Conversation
82% of directors have used generative AI in their board work in the past six months.
31 August 2026
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…
28 August 2026
How Should Directors Use AI? Full Article.
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