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How it works

From sign-up to seated — the whole chain, in the open.

India ID Exchange is a two-sided marketplace. Directors get assessed, listed and introduced; boards get a pre-assessed, compliance-ready shortlist. Here is exactly how each side moves — step by step.

For Directors For Boards

For Independent Directors & Aspiring IDs

Six steps from “am I ready?” to a portfolio of board seats

  1. Step 1

    Sign up to the Exchange

    Create your free director account in two minutes. Ready to go all in? Get Foresight now and do it in one step.

    Sign up free Get Foresight Membership
  2. Step 2

    Take the assessment

    Sit the ID Readiness assessment — 60 scenario-based questions in 60 minutes, scored across three axes: Governance, Function and Sector. Authored by sitting and retired C-suite leaders, it measures real boardroom judgment, not textbook recall. Your Board-Readiness score is free.

  3. Step 3

    Become a Foresight member — and get your profile built

    If you didn't join in Step 1, this is where you do. The Exchange then builds and reviews your discreet, board-ready profile — written in the exact format a Nomination Committee reads. It is never a public CV: boards see your credentials, not your name, until you choose to be seen.

    Get Foresight Membership
  4. Step 4

    Get listed — then go hunting

    You are now listed for every future board search on the platform. Search live jobs posted by boards and the Exchange's confidential mandates, and apply to any of them directly — reaching the board assessed and ranked, higher scores surfaced first.

  5. Step 5

    Request named reach-outs

    Name up to three specific boards a month. The Exchange hand-delivers your profile to their Nomination & Remuneration Committee, Company Secretary or CHRO — a warm, credentialed introduction, never a cold email. You choose the board; we open the door.

  6. Step 6

    Build your board portfolio

    You are board-visible and board-ready. Now compound it — win seats and grow a multi-board portfolio, with the 18-month radar always surfacing what is opening next in your sector, long before it is advertised.

Get Foresight

For Boards & Nomination Committees

Five steps from mandate to a defensible appointment

  1. Step 1

    Take a Corporate Membership

    Create Board Search Access to reach the Exchange's pool of assessed, board-ready independent directors.

    Corporate Membership
  2. Step 2

    Define your mandate

    Tell us the exact gap on your board — Reg. 17 composition, the woman-director requirement, audit, NRC or risk-committee experience, and the sector and function you need. Every requirement maps to a qualified fit.

  3. Step 3

    Search the assessed pool — or brief us

    Search and filter the pool yourself with full evidence on every profile — qualification level, credential number and the three axis scores — or hand us a confidential brief and we run a quiet search on your behalf.

  4. Step 4

    Shortlist & connect

    Reveal and contact your shortlist directly, or receive a curated confidential shortlist from the Exchange — no public posting, no exposure, no noise. You start from a verified shortlist, not an unscreened long-list.

  5. Step 5

    Appoint with confidence

    Every candidate has cleared the 60-question, 60-minute, three-axis assessment, drawn from disclosed governance data. Your appointment is defensible — to your board, and to your regulator.

Corporate Membership

Board Search Access · confidential · SEBI LODR-aligned governance data.