Governance
Governance that stands up to scrutiny.
Meetings, board packs, a secure director portal, registers and compliance obligations, kept in one place and recorded as you go. Built for company secretaries, general counsel and boards, whether you run one company or a group.
Meetings
Board and committee meetings, run properly
From notice to signed minutes, every step is recorded against the meeting it belongs to.
Notice, quorum and attendance
Send notice, track who is attending, and see at a glance whether the meeting is quorate.
Voting
Record votes on each item, with the outcome kept against the resolution it produced.
Agenda builder
Build the agenda item by item and attach the papers that belong to each one.
Board packs, generated
One click produces a single board pack PDF with page numbers and watermarks, ready for directors.
Deadlock workflow
When the board cannot agree, a defined deadlock process keeps the steps and the record in order.
Reserved matters
Keep the list of decisions reserved to the board or shareholders, so nothing slips through as an ordinary item.
Director portal
A reading room your directors will actually use
Directors get their own portal, separate from the rest of the business, with papers ready to read.
Reading room with annotations
Directors read papers in the browser and pin private notes to the exact spot on the page.
Secure board messaging
Discussion between directors stays inside the portal, not in personal email.
Works offline, installable
Install the portal on a laptop or tablet and read papers on a plane. Offline copies can be wiped remotely.
View-only and download control
Decide paper by paper whether directors can download, or view only. Every copy is watermarked.
Registers
Every register, in one place, across every company
Run a single company or a group of them. Registers are kept per company and seen together.
Resolutions register
Every resolution, including circular resolutions, with its status, date and supporting papers.
Officers and executive roles
Chair, CEO, CFO, company secretary, non-executive directors and committee members across all your companies.
ASIC Form 484, drafted for you
Appointments and changes to officeholders produce a draft Form 484 so the lodgement is ready to check.
Conflicts and related parties
Conflicts of interest and related-party registers, kept current and at hand when a meeting needs them.
Shareholder register
Members and holdings for each company, kept alongside the rest of the company record.
Insurance register
Policies, cover and renewal dates, so nothing lapses unnoticed.
Compliance
Obligations you can see coming
Deadlines, policies and risks, owned by named people and tracked to completion.
Compliance calendar
Statutory and internal deadlines in one calendar, with owners and reminders.
Policies with attestation
Publish policies and collect a recorded attestation from each person who needs to read them.
Risk register
Risks, ratings, owners and treatments, reviewed on a schedule you set.
Retention and legal hold
A retention schedule for your records, with legal hold to stop anything being deleted while it matters.
Share trading pre-clearance
Directors and staff request clearance to trade, and blackout windows are enforced.
Board evaluations and D&O questionnaires
Run board evaluations and directors’ questionnaires, with anonymous responses where you want candour.
Integration
A read-only public API
Your companies, officers, shareholdings, meetings and resolutions can be read by your own systems through a read-only API, authorised by keys you issue and revoke. Nothing outside Handholder can change your governance record through it.
See your own board in it.
Every plan starts with a 14-day demo with full access. Set up a company, invite a director and run a meeting.