Boords

The pre-production platform loved by video agencies & their clients

[Boords @boordsapp]

“The value of storyboarding is alignment.”

Sketch boards align the direction. Design boards lock it in. A decade in, @lemonly's process hasn’t changed.
What’s grown is how much video they make.

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[Boords @boordsapp]

Good news for anyone who prefers working in the dark.

Boords now has dark mode. Follows your device preferences automatically, or switch it manually in the account menu. Your frames stay exactly as they are.

[Boords @boordsapp]

Boords now works inside Claude and ChatGPT.

Turn a script into a storyboard, round up unresolved feedback, or update frames, all from a chat.

Here's what's new:

[James Chambers @jameschambers]

Turns out talking to customers, building what they want, and then getting positive feedback is pretty addictive.

[Boords @boordsapp]

The Boords Asset Library helps you:

- Share frequently used assets across your team
- Reference named characters, locations and props
- Organise images into folders (for example, by client or campaign)

Available now on all plans.

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Character consistency is harder than it looks. The right reference is in someone's downloads folder, or buried in a previous project.

The Asset Library gives your team one shared space for visual references, available as reference images across any storyboard.

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Before Boords, Mobula Design had two problems. One person at a time on a storyboard. Client feedback as PDF notes, manually reintegrated.

Seven years and 1,000+ storyboards later, both problems are gone.

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[James Chambers @jameschambers]

In an incredible turn of events, all my children are out of the house simultaneously, so I recorded a brief demo of the new Boords scripts feature, including but not limited to:

👉 Two-column AV layouts
👉 Automatic script-to-storyboard conversion
👉 No-login client comments

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The script lives in Google Docs. The storyboard lives somewhere else. Someone bridges the gap, manually recreating the structure, hoping nothing gets lost in the transfer.

Scripts are now in Boords 👀

[Boords @boordsapp]

This one's been a long time coming.

Change a storyboard's aspect ratio after it's been created. Start in 16:9, switch to 9:16, 4:5, or 1:1 without rebuilding from scratch.

Available now in the storyboard sidebar.

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[Boords @boordsapp]

Pre-production has always involved two kinds of work. Creative decisions. And operational tasks that take time but not creative judgment. Until now, both landed on the same desk.

Boords Agent changes that.

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Every agency knows this feeling.

Finalv3REAL.
Finalv3REAL_USE_THIS. Finalv3REAL_CLIENT_APPROVED_FINAL.

Before long nobody's sure which one the client signed off on.

In Boords, every version lives in one place.

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[Boords @boordsapp]

Boords now has a public API and webhooks.

Turn a script into a storyboard with one API call. Pull in images from Midjourney, DALL·E, or your own renders.

Webhooks alert you the moment something changes.

AI assistants can use it too, to create projects and manage storyboards.

[Boords @boordsapp]

Most teams treat an approved storyboard as the finish line.

It isn't. Someone needs the shot list. The client needs a PDF. The editor needs the frames.

In Boords, every export comes from the approved storyboard. Nothing rebuilt, nothing out of sync.

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"Looks good" on a call. A thumbs up in Slack.

Most agencies have been here. Production starts and it's unclear what was actually agreed.

Sign-off doesn't have to be complicated. It just has to exist.

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[Boords @boordsapp]

The copy link → open email → paste → send loop is gone.

Enter your client's email in Boords, hit send - they get the link automatically. No account needed.

New activity panel shows you when they've looked at it.

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Sharing a storyboard with a client should be simple.

A link. They click it and see the board and the animatic. No account, no software, no PDF. The work is there, ready to review.

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[Boords @boordsapp]

A scratch voiceover and some rough timing is all it takes to build an animatic.

Suddenly the piece is moving and you can see what's working and what isn't.

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Moving a shot at the storyboard stage takes seconds.

After the shoot, the same change could mean a reshoot.
Use the window while it's open.

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[Boords @boordsapp]

The script is in Google Docs. The boards are in Figma. The client notes are in email. That's where drift starts.

Keep the script and boards in the same place and changes flow through the whole project.
Boords keeps them together.

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