For CEOs
Your people have the tools. Do you have the number?
You bought the licenses. Somebody ran a pilot. Eighteen months later nobody in the building can tell you what AI returned, and the person who was going to figure it out is still waiting on IT. AiAi puts one leader from each of your functions in a room that makes them the person who actually makes AI work, and sends you a number every quarter.
What the company gets
Two people have to say yes. Here's your half.
The member has to grow. The company has to see the number. Both have to be true or the seat isn't worth it.
A leader in every function who owns AI
Instead of a committee, a vendor, or a hope. By month three they are the person your managers go to. By month twelve they are the person other companies try to hire.
A quarterly ROAI report
Where each sponsored function sits on the Operational Maturity Scale, what moved this quarter, what didn't and why, and the documented results in hours, dollars or cycle time.
Benchmarks against companies your size
Mid-market (50–5,000 employees), outside technology, by function. You find out whether you're behind, ahead, or exactly as stuck as everyone else.
One trusted place your people go for AI
Independent, vendor-free, and consistent across functions. Your HR lead and your Ops lead are hearing the same method, so the pieces fit.
A center of excellence, if you want one
Put HR, Finance and Operations in circles the same year and you've built a learning organization with IT inside it rather than in charge of it.
Research you can quote to your board
Members and their CEOs get the full State of AI Adoption, the quarterly ROAI Benchmark and the Function Briefs. Your board hears what the data says, not what a vendor says.
What we ask of you
Three things, and one of them is a phone call.
Circles work because the member's company is paying attention. We've watched the alternative: a motivated leader doing great work that nobody above them ever sees. So we ask the sponsor for a little, up front.
1
A thirty-minute sponsor call before the seat
With Brett or a Catalyst. What you want from the seat, what number would make it worth it, and what the leader needs from you to get there.
2
Protect the day
One day a month, eight to three, plus a two-hour call. The seat fails when the day gets eaten by meetings. You're the only person who can stop that.
3
Read the quarterly report. With them.
Twenty minutes a quarter. The report is built to be read together: what moved, what's next, what the leader needs. Members whose CEOs read the report get results. Members whose CEOs don't, drift.
What CEOs say first
The six objections, answered the way we'd answer them in your office.
"We already bought Copilot."
Good. Now tell us what it returned. Most companies can name the spend and can't name the return. We work on the second half.
"We do AI training."
Training builds skill and goes stale in six months. This builds practice: a live problem every month, peers who pressure-test it, and a number at the end of the quarter.
"What does a seat cost?"
Less than the CEO peer groups you already pay for, on purpose, because we serve the layer that has to execute. We give you the number on the sponsor call along with the math to run against your own payroll.
"IT owns AI here."
IT's job is to reduce risk. AI at this stage is risky, fast-moving and learned by doing. Companies that get a return build a learning function with IT inside it rather than in charge of it. That's what we train members to lead.
"Can't we just send one person?"
You can, and that person will move their function. Send HR, Finance and Operations the same year and you have a center of excellence instead of a hero.
"Why trust your measurement?"
Because we publish it. The methodology is public, the research is independent, and your company is in the benchmark. Sponsors fund distribution and never touch findings.
Most CEOs
Sponsor your leaders.
Pick the functions where AI should already be paying off and put a leader from each in a circle. You get the sponsor call, the quarterly report and the benchmark. They get the room.
Start with the form below ↓Some CEOs
Take a seat yourself.
The CEO circle is for owners and presidents who want the whole picture: what to invest in, what to govern, and what to ask the people in the other five circles. Same loop, your peers, your problems.
Request a CEO circle seat →Sponsor a leader
Tell us who you'd send.
We'll set up the sponsor call with you first, then reach out to the leaders you name. Nothing is billed until a seat is offered and accepted.
The CFO math
One leader who reclaims four hours a week across a six-person team pays for the seat several times over inside a quarter. We give you the seat price on the sponsor call, with the arithmetic, so you can run it against your own payroll.
Prefer to talk first?
Write to Brett directly at hello@theaiai.net, or come to an interest session in your city. Dates on the Contact page.