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What to think about before running an AI audit.
Pick the theme that feels hottest. You don't need answers today. You need to know where you'd disagree, and why. Start there.
Strategy & Direction
where are we going?- Where do we start?
- What does "transforming the business with AI" actually mean here? What's the menu of opportunity?
- Cohesive AI strategy, or scattered experiments with no rigor?
- How do we tell AI activity from AI productivity?
- Central team, or embedded in every function?
Market & Competition
what's the landscape?- Which competitive advantages get eroded or amplified by AI?
- If an AI-native competitor launched tomorrow, what would they do differently? Why aren't we?
- Who has transformed with AI successfully? Who has failed? What can we learn from both?
- What are the risks of doing this? What are the risks of not doing it?
Build & Reimagine
how do we make the work?- Reimagine from first principles, or just bolt AI on?
- If a task drops from $100 to $1, what's worth doing that wasn't before?
- A data strategy that gets us AI-ready without holding us back today?
People & Leadership
who does the work?- How does leadership get hands-on with AI to lead by example?
- How do we find our AI A-players and make their work the gold standard?
- Our responsibility for upskilling vs. our employees'?
- How do we test for AI curiosity and literacy in hiring?
Culture & Messaging
earning buy-in?- How do we message our AI strategy honestly and empathetically?
- How do we shift culture when employees are apathetic or fearful of being replaced?
- How do we surface use cases from employees and productionize from the top?
- How true is the "redeploy people to higher-value tasks" narrative?
Risk & Resilience
what could break?- Risk framework for go / no-go decisions on AI tooling?
- Encourage experimentation while mitigating security risk?
- Make IT, legal, and compliance partners and heroes, not gatekeepers?
- Build model-agnostic systems for a volatile market?
- If we depend on external vendors, what happens if LLM costs skyrocket?