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Not a talk about the technology. A talk about the decisions it is forcing on the executives who run the business, from someone who has sat in their seat.


What the talk is about. Agentic AI will make most companies faster at the work they already have, and a smaller number will use it to change what the work is. The talk is about the distance between faster and different, why that distance is where competitive position gets decided this cycle, and the decisions an executive has to take to close it. It is about operating strategy in the age of agentic AI rather than about models, platforms and what the technology can do.

What it is not. There is no platform to recommend, no implementation work to sell and no revenue that depends on which way an audience decides, so nothing in the talk is steering anyone toward a purchase. The published questions come from the same place: a firm with nothing to sell beyond the work itself can afford to give The Method away.

Formats. A keynote of forty-five to sixty minutes. A closed-door executive session, where the audience works the questions on their own outcomes rather than listening. Panels, both as a participant and as host, which he does often. Podcasts and recorded interviews.

Upcoming.

AI Realized workshop card. Retrofit or reimagine? Decide how far agents should take one operation you run. With Blaine Mathieu.

Retrofit or Reimagine: An Agentic AI Strategy Workshop for Executives

Hosted by AI Realized · Thursday 3 December 2026 · San Francisco

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The record.

Host, the Autonomous Organizations Agentic AI Summit

Host, the Autonomous Organizations Agentic AI Summit

Organized by the Post-Industrial Institute, at the Stanford Research Institute · February 2026

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