Candid conversations about security, identity, risk management, and AI
Candid Table runs customer advisory boards for cybersecurity and identity vendors, and hosts communities where security and identity leaders talk honestly with their peers.
For vendors
Buyer feedback you can act on, and prove
Startups 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, built for cybersecurity and IAM.
Sized for where you are
Most Series A and B security vendors don’t yet have enough customers to staff a standing board. We design one that fits: customers, prospects, design partners and independent practitioners.
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 with real security and identity fluency. 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 updates.
See a sample annual board-impact summary: PDF · slides. Fictional vendor 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 senior practitioners, 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 practitioners
A seat at a candid table
Your time is scarce and your skepticism of vendor 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 vendor.
Peers, not pitches
Dinners, panels and roundtables around Identity, Cyber, Risk Management and AI, hosted by Candid Table. Vendors 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.