Boards
Boards are the working canvases in Nexus — where you load regulatory artefacts, navigate their structure, and build your crosswalk.
A board is where crosswalk work happens. Each board is an independent canvas that can hold one or more regulatory artefacts, displayed as interactive trees you can navigate, expand, filter, and map against your governance controls.
Creating a board
From the Nexus home page, select New board.
Give the board a name that reflects its purpose. Common patterns: one board per regulatory framework ("EU AI Act"), one per AI system ("Hiring Algorithm — Compliance"), or one per comparative analysis ("ISO 42001 vs NIST AI RMF"). There is no single correct approach — use whatever makes sense for how your team works.
The board opens as an empty canvas, ready for artefacts.
[Screenshot needed] PLACEHOLDER IMAGE: An empty Nexus board with the board name editable in the header and the Scope button visible
Loading artefacts
Click Scope in the board header to open the artefact panel. This shows the frameworks and documents available in your workspace.
Select an artefact to load it. Balcony includes pre-loaded frameworks:
- EU AI Act — the European Union's AI regulation
- ISO 42001 — the international AI management system standard
- NIST AI RMF — the US AI Risk Management Framework
The artefact appears on the canvas as a tree that mirrors the source document's structure.
Loading multiple artefacts onto the same board is one of the most useful things you can do in Nexus. Side-by-side comparison makes convergence — where different frameworks require the same controls — immediately visible in a way that reading them one at a time does not.
Renaming and organising boards
Board names are inline-editable: click the name in the header to rename. Changes save immediately.
As your board collection grows, Balcony supports folders and favourites to keep them manageable:
- Folders — group related boards. Create a folder from the Nexus home page and drag boards into it.
- Favourites — mark boards you access frequently for quick access from the home page.
Expansion state
When you expand or collapse nodes on a board, that state is saved per board automatically. Return to the board later and the tree is restored exactly as you left it — without having to re-navigate the hierarchy each time.
This means you can set up a view — expanding the sections you are actively working on and collapsing the rest — and use it as a persistent working context.
Board settings
The settings menu (gear icon in the header) provides a few view options:
- Show unmapped nodes — toggle whether nodes with no mappings are visible in the Explore view. Hiding them can simplify the canvas when you want to focus on what has already been mapped.