Candid conversations between the people who build products and the people who depend on them
Candid Table runs customer advisory boards for companies that want honest feedback from their customers, and hosts peer communities where leaders compare notes. We started in security, identity, risk and AI; the method works anywhere a product has serious buyers.
Communities
Peer communities for the people who lead
Candid Table hosts communities of peers around the topics that matter to your work: today Identity, Cyber, Risk Management and AI, with new ones as members form them. Dinners, panels, roundtables and virtual sessions, and podcast or speaking invitations when you want them. A community belongs to Candid Table, not to any company: nobody owns the roster, and sponsors never see who belongs.
Open now
Verified peers, curated
Join from a community’s page or a member’s link, with your work email. We review every request.
Your choices, every time
Whether we may contact you, suggest you for an advisory board, or show you to other members: all off unless you say yes.
Sponsored, never sold
An event may have a sponsor, named on the invitation with a few words. Sponsors never see the guest list.
Built for your calendar
RSVP in a tap, bring a colleague, keep your dietary needs private to us. Nothing to install unless you want the app.
For companies
Customer feedback you can act on, and prove
Growing companies need buyer-level proof long before they can afford the team that usually produces it. Candid Table designs, recruits, facilitates and sustains your Customer Advisory Board: virtual, hybrid or in person, in any industry where a product has serious buyers.
Sized for where you are
Most growing companies don’t yet have enough customers to staff a standing board. We design one that fits: customers, prospects, design partners and independent experts.
Cheaper than building it in-house
Running a board yourself typically costs $30,000–$60,000 a year in hard costs, plus about a day a week of a senior executive’s time, before a dedicated program manager at $120,000–$160,000.
A room that stays candid
A neutral facilitator who speaks your customers’ language. Account executives stay out of member selection and out of the room.
Ranked output, not transcripts
Every session ends in a prioritized theme summary within five business days. Every commitment gets an owner and a due date, and anything still open on day five is flagged back to you.
Proof for your own board
Your portal shows your board, your reports and what you did about each theme. The annual board-impact summary is built for your investor and leadership updates.
See a sample annual board-impact summary: PDF · slides. Fictional company and data, straight from the product.
How it works
Design, recruit, facilitate, report
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Design
Charter, board model, member scorecard, target list, and invitation and NDA templates.
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Recruit
Score and invite the senior people who use your product, with staggered terms so the board never turns over at once.
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Facilitate
Quarterly 90-minute virtual sessions around two open decisions, and an in-person flagship if you want one.
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Report
Ranked themes in five business days, a mid-year executive readout, and an annual board-impact summary.
Pricing
Flat fees, no headcount
Foundations
$8–12K one-time
Standing up your first board
A 3–4 week design sprint: charter, member scoring rubric and target list, invitation and NDA templates, and a ready-to-run first-meeting agenda.
Virtual Program
$28–40K per year
A standing board, run for you
Four quarterly 90-minute virtual sessions, live neutral facilitation, a prioritized synthesis report and action log after each session, and a mid-year executive readout.
Signature Program
$55–85K per year
A board your customers look forward to
Everything in the Virtual Program plus an in-person flagship day (venue, hospitality and gifting handled end to end), member-sourcing support, and annual board renewal.
Virtual, hybrid and in person. Add-ons for any tier: an extra synthesis workshop, a board-impact deck for your investor update, a member-sourcing sprint, or an additional in-person day.
For members
A seat at a candid table
Your time is scarce and your skepticism of a company’s motives is part of the job. Candid Table is built around that.
Real decisions, not demos
Sessions are built around genuinely open product and roadmap trade-offs. If the decision is already made, it isn’t a board meeting.
Your employer’s rules come first
We check your company’s gift policy before anything is sent, and handle confidentiality, including agreements your company already has with the host.
Peers, not pitches
Dinners, panels and roundtables around the topics you work on, hosted by Candid Table. Sponsors never see who belongs.
Your choice, every time
We contact you, or suggest you for an advisory board, only if you say yes.
Talk to us
Tell us a little about you and we’ll be in touch. No newsletters, no trackers.
We keep what you send for 180 days, only to reply to you.