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Executive guides for AI decisions: spend, tools, talent, policy, risk. Opinionated, regularly updated, written for directors and above. Written by someone who builds these systems.
Guides
All guides →The Executive's Mental Model for AI
Stop treating AI like a transformation. It's five operational decisions you already know how to make. The frame that turns vendor pitches, board questions, and budget meetings into 30-second exercises.
Recognizing Leverage
What AI force multiplication actually looks like, role by role. The signals to look for, the people to find, and the work that's already getting done while you're still in strategy meetings.
Evaluating Spend
What an AI budget should look like when it's working. Seats vs. usage, plan tiers, shadow AI, and the five-minute audit your CFO will accept.
Choosing Tools
How to choose AI tools when leverage is concentrated in 15% of your users. The opinionated framework: who picks, what to fund, when to standardize, and what to do about Microsoft.
Building an AI Policy
A one-page AI policy that gets followed. What to allow, restrict, and track when your team is already using AI and your policy is still in draft.
Driving Adoption
Why half your AI seats are idle and what to do about it. Not a training program. The disposition gap, the workflow gap, and the manager signal that actually moves usage.
Selecting Talent
How to hire people who already have AI leverage, and how to spot them on your current team. The interview questions, signals, and assessments that surface disposition instead of credential.
Measuring Returns
How to measure AI program returns without an ROI framework. Seat-level decisions, workflow signals, and the one paragraph your CFO will accept.
Managing Risk
The four AI failure modes that actually hit enterprises: data leakage, wrong answers, over-reliance, shadow AI. And the operational controls that catch them.
Recent Articles
All articles →Defensible AI Spend
Your AI budget is going up. It will keep going up. Stop defending the total and start defending the shape, because that's the only number your CFO will accept.
The State of AI: Q2 2026
Quarterly briefing for executives. What's real in AI right now, what changed this quarter, what to tell your board, and what to do Monday morning.