Albert
Albert is an AI board advisor that reviews board papers against Australian governance law. Directors upload a PDF or Word file and receive a structured review, targeted questions and a risk verdict in under 30 seconds.
What is Albert?
Albert is an AI board advisor built for Australian company directors. Its premise, stated plainly on the home page, is an information asymmetry: management has had weeks to decide what goes into a board paper and how the recommendation is framed, while the director parachutes in once a month. The promise, walk in as the best prepared director in the room, is to close that gap by surfacing what the paper does not say.
The workflow has three steps. Upload a PDF or a .docx file, or paste the text. Albert runs it through five analysis lenses, namely Strategy for direction and coherence, Financial for capital and returns, Risk for identification and mitigation, Compliance for ASIC and the Corporations Act, and Stakeholder for customers, staff and regulators, in a claimed 30 seconds or less. You then interrogate the result and export it.
Seven modes shape the output: Ask for open questions on governance and directors' duties, Review for an eight-section governance review, Scenario to stress-test a decision, Questions for categorised meeting questions, Challenge for hidden assumptions and bias detection, Roundtable, where three chosen advisor personas debate across three structured rounds before a closing synthesis, and Financials for financial reports. Seven personas exist, being Albert, Risk, Finance, Strategy, Governance, Stakeholder and Len, with five available on paid plans and one on the free plan.
What separates Albert from a general assistant is the legal grounding it claims: the Corporations Act 2001, including the duties at sections 180 to 184, related parties and continuous disclosure, the ASX corporate governance principles fourth edition, ASIC information sheets and regulatory guides, the AICD framework, Australian case law such as Centro, James Hardie and ASIC v Healey, and the Fair Work Act 2009 and work health and safety legislation. The framing quotation on the home page is the section 180 test itself: did the board exercise reasonable care and diligence?
Technically it is a web application running on Google Cloud with the Gemini model, Firebase authentication and Google Sign-in, installable as a progressive web app on mobile and tablet. A hub of 37 governance resource pages sits alongside it. In August 2026 the product was still in beta, entered by waiting list or invitation.
What it does
- Upload a board paper as a PDF or Word file, or paste the text, and get a structured governance review in eight sections
- Run the same paper through five analysis lenses: strategy, financial, risk, compliance and stakeholder
- Generate categorised questions to put to management in the meeting
- Challenge a proposal by surfacing hidden assumptions, failure scenarios and bias, ending in a challenge verdict
- Stress-test a decision through best case, adverse case and downstream consequences
- Have three director personas debate the same paper over three structured rounds in Roundtable mode
- Analyse a financial report with the Len persona and export a summary brief
When to use Albert / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Albert is the right fit.
When to use Albert
- Non-executive directors who prepare for meetings in the gaps between other commitments and want minutes of preparation to carry the weight of hours
- Board chairs who want to pre-screen papers before they reach the full board, and to check that management has supplied complete and balanced information
- Audit and risk committee members who need financial rigour, risk identification and compliance analysis calibrated to a heightened standard of scrutiny
- Portfolio directors sitting on three or five boards who cannot afford to lose depth on any of them
- Directors asked to form a view on cyber security or complex finance well outside their own field of expertise
When not to use Albert
- Directors of companies outside Australia: the reasoning engine is built on the Corporations Act 2001, ASX principles, ASIC guidance and the AICD framework, and no other national framework is claimed
- Anyone looking for legal, financial or professional advice, which clause 7 of the terms of service explicitly rules out, with outputs that clause 6b says may be inaccurate, incomplete or misleading
- Boards that do not work in English, since the interface and the analysis are English only
- Teams wanting board-portal integration or programmatic access: there is no API and no connector to Diligent, BoardEffect or similar, so every document is uploaded by hand
- Users who need access today, or who are under 18: in August 2026 entry was still by waiting list or beta invitation, the entry paid plan required an application, and clause 3 of the terms sets a minimum age of 18
How to use Albert
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Request access from the home page: join the waiting list with your full name, work email, main board or company and role, or choose Continue as Beta Guest
- Create an account with a verified email address or an approved beta invite code, or sign in with Google through Firebase Auth
- Add a company by entering its name, activity and sector, or let Albert look the context up from the company website URL; that context is fed back into every analysis
- Pick a mode: Ask, Review, Scenario, Questions, Challenge, Roundtable or Financials
- Upload the board paper as a PDF or .docx file, or paste its text into the session
- For Roundtable, select exactly three advisor personas before launching the debate
- Adjust the tone of voice of the persona, for example the Mentor setting that decodes what a paper really means in plain English
- Read the structured output, then dig in with the suggested follow-up questions such as what is the exit strategy, who owns this risk, or has this been stress-tested; Cmd + Enter sends
- Export the brief as a PDF, and pick the same session up on mobile or tablet through the installable progressive web app
- Housekeep from the sidebar: sessions and boards can be deleted, and deleting a board permanently removes all of its threads and analysis history
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Unusual legal specialisation: the analysis is anchored in the Corporations Act 2001, ASX principles, ASIC guidance, the AICD framework and named Australian case law rather than in general business commentary
- An explicit and detailed confidentiality position, covering in-memory processing with no document storage, exclusion from model training, encryption in transit and at rest with AES-256 announced, Australian data residency and logged access controls
- The document handling chain is published in five plain steps instead of being left implicit
- A permanent free plan, one board paper a month, makes a genuine evaluation possible at no cost and with no commitment
- Prices for all four plans are published openly in AUD, with no obligation to speak to a salesperson first
- No lock-in contracts and cancellation at any time
- Several modes covering preparation, challenge and structured debate, where general assistants stop at a free-text answer, alongside a free hub of 37 governance resources and a security whitepaper available on request
Cons
- A very young product: the domain was registered on 21 March 2026, the terms date from 27 March 2026, and in August 2026 access was still by waiting list, with the entry paid plan behind an Apply for Access request rather than direct purchase
- No third-party security certification is published, neither SOC 2 nor ISO 27001 nor any external audit, so every security claim rests on the publisher's own statements
- A tension between the security page, which promises zero storage, zero logs and zero trail, and the privacy policy, which describes analytics, diagnostics and crash logs at section 5 and retention for as long as reasonably necessary at section 6
- No data processing agreement is published or offered, and no sub-processor is named: the privacy policy lists only categories of providers
- No mention of the GDPR anywhere, although the service is reachable from Europe and international transfers are explicitly anticipated
- The engine is limited to Australian law and the interface and analysis are English only, so outside Australia the legal value added largely falls away
- No API, no board portal integration and no native app in the stores, so documents are uploaded by hand, while the entry paid plan at 149 AUD per month is steep for occasional individual use
Pricing & Plans
A permanent free plan is available. Try Albert is priced at $0 and described as free forever, and covers one board paper per month. The lowest paid entry point is the Individual Director plan at $149 per month. All prices are published in Australian dollars, and no annual pricing or annual discount is advertised. The publisher states that there are no lock-in contracts and that a subscription can be cancelled at any time. Two points deserve note: the free plan is not a time-limited trial but a permanent tier, and the Individual Director plan is obtained through an Apply for Access request rather than immediate checkout.
- 1 board paper per month
- Governance Review mode
- 1 persona
- basic risk analysis
- button Start Free
- unlimited board papers
- 5 personas
- all modes
- continuous questioning
- exportable briefs
- button Apply for Access
- up to 5 directors
- shared document repository
- company secretary admin controls
- priority support
- button Get Started
- unlimited directors
- everything in Board Licence
- dedicated onboarding
- custom governance framework
- button Contact us
- All prices are quoted in AUD
- with no lock-in contract and cancellation at any time
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Albert handles your data.
GDPR overview
The GDPR is mentioned nowhere on the site: not the acronym, not the full name, no legal basis, no Article 27 representative, no data protection officer. The framework invoked is exclusively Australian, being Australian law and courts (terms, clause 18) and the Australian Consumer Law (clause 14). The privacy policy of 11 May 2026 does grant rights that resemble European ones, namely access, correction, deletion, objection, withdrawal of consent and a copy of the data (section 11), but prefaces them with the words depending on your location and cites no instrument. Deletion is by request to gday@getalbert.ai (section 7), international transfers to countries with different laws are anticipated (section 8), and safeguards are described only as reasonable (section 9). Compliance is therefore neither claimed nor denied, a silence European users should note rather than read either way.
Who owns the data?
Clause 6a of the terms of service, effective 27 March 2026, states that the user keeps ownership of the content they submit, defined as the Input, and grants the publisher only a limited licence to use that Input to operate and provide the service. Outputs are generated from the Input, and clause 6b makes the user solely responsible for evaluating them and for anything done on the strength of them. Rights in the service itself, including software, branding and design, remain with the publisher or its licensors under clause 10. The security page restates the position in one line: your data remains yours. No third party is granted rights over uploaded board papers.
Reuse rights
Because the user retains ownership of everything uploaded, the resulting briefs and analyses can be exported, circulated to the board and acted on without asking permission, subject to clause 6b, which puts the burden of checking any output on the user before it is relied upon. On the publisher's side, the privacy policy of 11 May 2026 sets out the purposes of processing at sections 2 and 3: delivering and personalising the service, authenticating users and verifying email, generating AI responses, improving performance and reliability, analysing usage trends, detecting fraud and abuse, providing support, meeting legal obligations and enforcing the terms. Prompts, messages and uploaded content may be processed by third-party AI providers for those purposes; the terms name Google and the Gemini model as the infrastructure and model behind the service, while section 4 of the privacy policy lists only categories of providers, such as cloud hosting, authentication, analytics, support platforms, payment processors, AI model providers and crash reporting. The policy states that personal information is not sold to third parties. The security page goes further, saying documents, prompts and outputs are never used to train AI models or for any secondary purpose, and that documents are processed in memory and deleted at the end of the session. Those two texts do not describe the same footprint, and both are published by the same publisher.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Albert states that all processing takes place in Australian data centres, in support of local data sovereignty and the requirements of regulated entities, and the site's own meta description says the service is hosted in Australia. The infrastructure named is Google Cloud and Google AI Studio, with the Gemini model named in the terms of service. Encryption is announced in transit and at rest, with AES-256 cited on the home page, while the security page describes end-to-end encryption from the device to Albert, maintained inside the cloud infrastructure. Access is said to be restricted to authorised systems and staff with a legitimate operational need, with administrative activity logged and auditable. Two caveats apply. No Google Cloud region is published, and no certification such as SOC 2, ISO 27001 or IRAP is published either, though a security whitepaper is offered on request to gday@getalbert.ai. More significantly, section 8 of the privacy policy of 11 May 2026 anticipates that information may be transferred to, processed and stored in countries other than the user's country of residence, which sits in tension with processing entirely within Australian borders.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Albert.
- Outputs are AI-generated and may be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or biased, as clauses 6b and 8 of the terms state; the director's own judgement, and the legal responsibility attached to it, cannot be delegated to the tool
- Convenience can erode the very skill being bought: a director who stops reading the paper in full loses the independent grasp of it that the Corporations Act expects, and a plausible summary is easy to mistake for an accurate one
- No independent security certification exists, so every confidentiality claim rests on the publisher's own word; IT, legal and procurement teams should request the security whitepaper and test it before any sensitive paper is uploaded
- Check the gap between zero storage, zero logs and zero trail on the security page and the analytics, crash logs and open-ended retention described in the privacy policy before deciding what to upload
- International data transfers are explicitly anticipated at section 8 of the privacy policy, despite the promise of Australian data residency
- The terms reserve the right to modify, suspend or discontinue the service at any time under clause 12, and to update the terms by publication alone under clause 17
- Publisher details are thin: no postal address and no ACN or ABN, two different cities in the same footer with Sydney for contact and Melbourne in the copyright, a typo at section 14 of the privacy policy giving gday@etalbert.ai, a domain that does not exist, in place of gday@getalbert.ai, and prices shown without any mention of GST
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Technically minimal. Albert is a web application: nothing to install or deploy, no API key, no connector to configure. Sign-in is through Google with Firebase Auth or an approved beta invite code, and the app installs to a home screen as a progressive web app. The only configuration is adding companies by name, activity and sector, which Albert can look up from the company website URL. Then upload a PDF and pick a mode. The real friction is not technical: access runs through a waiting list or beta invitation, and the entry paid plan requires an application.
Deployment
Supported languages
Behind Albert
Resources
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Alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What exactly does Albert analyse?
Which legal framework does the analysis rest on?
Are my documents kept?
Are my documents used to train AI models?
Where is the data hosted?
Is there a free plan?
How much is the first paid plan?
Is there an API?
Does Albert give legal or financial advice?
How do I delete my account and my data?
Should you pick Albert?
Albert is an unashamedly narrow tool: one market, Australia, one job, the company director, and one object, the board paper. That narrowness is its strongest argument. Where a general assistant returns a competent summary, Albert reasons against the Corporations Act 2001, the ASX principles, ASIC guidance, the AICD framework and named Australian case law, and hands back something a director can carry into the room, whether an eight-section review, categorised questions, a challenge verdict or a three-way debate between advisor personas.
The reservations concern maturity and evidence rather than intent. The confidentiality position is unusually detailed, with in-memory processing, deletion at the end of the session, no model training and Australian data residency, yet nothing external corroborates it: no SOC 2, no ISO 27001, no independent audit, no data processing agreement and no named sub-processors. It also sits awkwardly beside the privacy policy of 11 May 2026, which describes analytics, diagnostics and crash logs, retention for as long as reasonably necessary, and international transfers. Both texts come from the same publisher, and the gap between them is worth raising before a board commits.
The product is also very new. The domain was registered in March 2026, the terms date from 27 March 2026, and in August 2026 access still ran through a waiting list or a beta invitation, with the entry paid plan behind an application. Against that, pricing is public and in AUD, there is no lock-in, and the permanent free plan of one board paper a month makes a real evaluation possible at no cost.
For an Australian non-executive director, chair or audit and risk committee member, Albert is worth testing on the free plan. Outside Australian jurisdiction, the legal edge that justifies it disappears.
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