The pre-production platform loved by video agencies & their clients
Create Scripts, Storyboards and Animatics with your team. Share work with clients, collect feedback, and get sign-off before production begins.
Studios of every size run on Boords
Get sign-off without the chaos
The usual way
With Boords
Signed offSarah · v3Who signed off what, on which version
Clients open one link with no login and comment on the exact frame. When they sign off, you mark that version Approved, so everyone works from the right one. See how review works
Boords makes it easy for clients to review and comment on each frame. No account setup, no feature bloat, just a simple review experience that’s easy to understand.
Amy MooreCo-founder & Executive Creative Director, Lemonly- Projects shared
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- Projects shared
- Comments on frames
- 12M+
- Comments on frames
How review works
Your cast stays the same in every frame
Show clients the idea before you shoot it. Save characters and props once, then type @ to put them in any frame. When feedback lands, change one detail with Refine and keep the earlier image as a frame revision. More on generating frames
Save your cast once
Characters, products and locations live in your asset library. Type @ in any prompt and the client sees the same Jess and the same bottle in every frame.
@jessCharacters
@oakflaskProps
Pacing signed off before the edit suite
Turn the approved board into a timed animatic with your voiceover, or start from an AV script and turn it into frames. Share the cut for sign-off, then export it to Premiere, Resolve or After Effects at the approved timing. More on animatics
From script to animatic, we can shape and collaborate on ideas then share them with our clients so they’re fully understood.
Toby MoryMotion Director and Partner, Goldener WestenEverything else a review round needs
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Connect preproduction to the rest of your stack
Scripts, boards and sign-off stay in Boords. Everything else plugs in.
- Work from Claude and ChatGPTDraft scripts and build boards from a chat.
- Client notes in your Slack DMsMentions, replies and comments on boards and scripts you follow.
- Hand off to the edit and the deckAfter Effects, Premiere Pro, Resolve, PowerPoint and more.
AI connections and Slack DMs are on every Boords plan, even Free.
We built Boords because pre-production was broken
I'm James, founder of Boords. Before this, I co-founded Animade, an animation studio in London.
Back then, we built storyboards in Photoshop. Or Google Slides. Or InDesign. Whatever got the job done. But tracking versions was a nightmare. "FinalFinal_v3_USE_THIS.pdf"... you know the drill.
Client notes lived in email threads. Nobody could find the version we'd actually locked. Every storyboard looked different because we were rebuilding templates from scratch each time, manually reordering frames, fiddling with layouts. We'd waste hours on formatting instead of ideas.
So in 2015, I built the first version of Boords to fix it. Consistent boards every time. Notes in context, not buried in inboxes. One link to share, and no more guessing which version got approved.
11 years and over 2 million storyboards later, Boords is still independent, still small, and still built around one idea: pre-production should be where you do your best thinking, not where you lose hours to process.
James Chambers, Founder
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Create scripts, storyboards, and animatics with your team.
Collect client feedback, keep every version on record, and go into production knowing exactly what was approved.
