Create a council of AI leaders to help your business.
Start with the playbook. Our 50+ page playbook shows you why a council beats consultants, who belongs on yours, how to run it, and the exact questions to ask in your first three sessions. Written for executives who are done guessing about AI.
- Why a council beats consultants, courses, and conferences
- How to choose the right 3 to 5 practitioners for your company
- The 27 questions to ask before you greenlight an AI initiative
- Cadence, comp, and governance templates you can copy
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A Practical Playbook
Building Your AI Advisory Council
Why. Who. How. And the questions to ask.
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The playbook is the foundation , it's how you get the most out of your council. Once you know what you're looking for, search the network and pay a flat fee for a warm introduction. You handle the engagement directly from there.
Most executives are making AI decisions with the worst possible information.
Your advisors are behind
Your board, your consultants, your industry peers , none of them are at the frontier. They're reading the same Forbes articles you are.
Your team can't see past execution
The people inside your company are solving today's problems. They can't tell you what's possible or what's coming.
Consultants sell decks, not knowledge
Big 4 frameworks are built from yesterday's case studies. What you need is someone who shipped an AI product last quarter.
What You Get
Your own AI brain trust. Matched to your company.
An AI Advisory Council is a curated group of 3–5 AI practitioners matched to your industry, your tech stack, and your specific challenges. They become your council.
You meet monthly. You bring your real problems. They bring real answers , not frameworks built from case studies, but experience from shipping AI products, managing AI teams, and making the same decisions you're facing right now.
Between sessions, your council is reachable. When a vendor pitches you, you ask your council. When your board wants an AI strategy, your council helps you build it.
"One conversation with the right person is worth more than six months of research."
Your Council
3–5 practitioners. One company. Yours.
Sarah C.
ML Research Lead
Marcus W.
VP of AI
Priya R.
Head of Applied ML
How It Works
We help you pull your council together, then we help you operate it at high efficiency.
You own your council. We give you the marketplace to find the right practitioners, the matching to get the fit right, and the ongoing advice to run it well, session after session.
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Tell us about your company
Industry, challenges, where you are on AI, where you want to be. We read every application.
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We help you pull your council together
Search the marketplace yourself, or let us match you with 3 to 5 vetted practitioners suited to your industry and gaps. You decide who joins.
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We help you run great sessions
Agenda templates, pre-reads, briefing prep, and facilitation guidance so every session moves a real decision forward.
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We help you operate it between sessions
Ongoing advice, async access to your council, vendor and tool gut-checks, and quick re-matches when your needs change.
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Sarah C.
ML Research Lead
Spent six years at a major AI research lab working on large model training infra…
Marcus W.
VP of AI
On the founding team at a leading foundation model company and has spent the las…
Priya R.
Head of Applied ML
Runs a 30-person applied ML org shipping models into a regulated financial produ…
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What Executives Say
Before their first council session, they weren't sure. After, they couldn't imagine operating without one.
"One conversation changed how we were thinking about our entire data strategy. We avoided a decision that would have cost us six figures and six months."
"I had been reading about AI for two years. My first council session was the first time I actually understood what mattered for my company."
"It is the only meeting on my calendar I never reschedule. Our council pays for itself every quarter."
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