Trust
Leave any time, with everything
A self managed board must never feel trapped. Nothing in Board Butler is designed to make leaving harder, and that sentence is a tested rule in our codebase rather than a promise on a page.
What the export contains
From the billing page, any president or treasurer can export the corporation's complete record at any time without contacting us: the ledger and every journal line, the unit sub-ledgers, owners and roster history, every document with its classification, decisions, minutes, transcripts, obligations and evidence, the vendor directory and bid records, and the audit chain with a verification script that recomputes it.
Formats are CSV, JSON and PDF, with a manifest listing every file and its hash. The manifest is what lets a recipient prove the export is intact.
How it works
You do not ask us and you do not wait for an approval. The export is a button, and no Board Butler person is in the path.
The export is also produced automatically when a subscription ends, so a board that stops paying does not lose its record while it works out what to do next.
Why this is a rule rather than an intention
Our codebase carries an invariant test that fails the build if an export path grows an approval step, a support ticket, or a delay that a person controls. The same suite fails if the export stops including the audit chain or its verifier.
That is the difference between a promise and a property. A promise is kept by whoever remembers it. A property is kept by the build.
Start without wondering how you would leave
The export exists before you need it, and the audit chain leaves with the script that verifies it.