Board resolutions

Nine trustees, nine diaries, one resolution

A written resolution needs every trustee, and trustees are volunteers with day jobs in nine different places. The document is easy; the coordination is not.

Trustees around an oval table in a wood-panelled committee room, papers in front of each of them.

What this looks like today

Getting everyone in one place is the hard part

And the resolution cannot wait for the next quarterly meeting.

Partial signature is invisible

Seven of nine looks the same as two of nine from the outside.

The record has to satisfy a regulator

Not just the chair.

What Baton does about it

1
Ask all nine simultaneously
Parallel routing: everybody is emailed at once and can sign whenever they get to it, in any order.
2
Watch it fill up
The board shows how many have signed and who has not, without you asking anybody.
3
File the result with its proof
One PDF, nine signatures, one certificate listing every signer with a time and an address.

What is true right now

Every line below describes something the product does today. Nothing on this page is a roadmap item wearing a feature’s clothes.

Parallel and sequential routing are the same feature, distinguished by a number.
The document is only complete when every required signer has acted.
A trustee who declines halts it, and the reason is recorded in the trail.
The chain proves the record has not been altered since it was completed.

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