The Proposal That Survived the Filter
You read every proposal knowing it has already cleared several informal review stages before it reaches your desk. The team that built it believed in it enough to spend weeks developing it.
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The AI Boardroom
Evaluate, budget for, and govern AI across your organization—without getting sold snake oil. Written for directors and VPs.
The problem
It starts with the situation you're actually in.
Your board is receiving AI proposals faster than it can evaluate them. Vendors have learned that "AI-powered" commands a premium and shortens procurement cycles. What you need isn't a technical education.
The next AI investment proposal will reach your board before the quarter ends. The materials will look familiar: vendor benchmarks assembled under favorable conditions, an ROI projection built on assumptions the presenting team chose, and a risk summary written by the people who want the budget approved.
Outcomes
What you'll be able to do.
The Demo Is Not the Product
You see why a flawless demo proves little. In clinical documentation AI, the demo transcribes a physician consultation in real time, catches a missed medication interaction, and produces a structured note in under thirty seconds. Clean, accurate, impressive—and not the product.
The Board's Actual Scope in Workforce Decisions
You name what a board actually approves when it greenlights AI in operations, legal, or customer service: partly a technology contract, partly a budget line, and—if the proposal is honest—a decision about people's jobs.
The Board Pack Sent to the Wrong Room
You spot the exposure when your board secretary runs this quarter's board pack—fourteen documents—through a cloud-based AI summarizer.
Inside the book
A closer look at the work inside.
The Question Behind Every AI Proposal checklist
- LLMs generate text probabilistically. They are not databases, not search engines, and not reliable sources of fact.
- Predictive ML scores and classifies based on historical patterns. Mature, auditable, and routinely mislabeled as something newer than it is.
- Autonomous agents chain LLM calls with tool access. The category most likely to carry operational and financial integrity risk as enterprise deployments expand.
- RPA automates scripted workflows deterministically. It is not AI unless genuine inference is involved in the workflow.
Five Non-Negotiable Questions
Five questions answered in writing before any AI initiative receives board or executive-committee approval. A proposal that can't satisfy all five has work left before it belongs on your agenda. First: what was the model trained on, and does that data represent your actual use case?
The Build-Versus-Buy Decision in Practice
The build-versus-buy calculus has changed. A few years ago, a custom model was often the only path to production-grade performance on domain-specific tasks. For most use cases, that's no longer true.
A Cost Buildup in Practice
You approve an AI-assisted contract review tool for legal operations: ingest contracts, flag non-standard clauses, route high-risk items to counsel. Year 1 all-in cost is $480,000—implementation, licensing, and infrastructure. Projected savings: $650,000 a year from reduced outside counsel time.
Workbook: Pilot Exit Criteria Worksheet
Before any AI pilot receives its initial funding, the sponsoring team completes this worksheet. File it with the original proposal and resurface it at every subsequent funding review.
Workbook: Pilot Exit Criteria WorksheetInside the book
Visual preview
A diagram you can keep open while you work.
Table of contents
10 chapters, built to be read in order.
01
Cutting Through the Hype
02
The Director's Literacy Threshold
03
Interrogating AI Proposals
04
The Real Cost of AI
05
Vendor Selection Without Getting Played
06
Building the Governance Architecture
07
Risk, Regulation, and Legal Exposure
08
The Workforce Decision
09
AI in Your Own Boardroom
10
The AI-Ready Board — Your Ongoing Oversight Agenda
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Exercises, checklists & tools
10
Chapters
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