The AI-Powered Board Meet.

Dig this.

You've been spending weeks preparing for the next Board meet. Your team's built a deck that could paper a wall, filled with numbers and strategies covering all of the angles of your business. Highlights include the last few months utilisation, your plans to "increase efficiency to open up new markets," etc.

You're under a bit more pressure because there's a new Board member in town. And she's from the Private Equity firm that just acquired you.

Fifteen minutes into your pitch she suddenly opens up her laptop and starts working the mouse. You carry on, but then she raises her hand. You motion for her to proceed.

"I just uploaded a screen shot of the strategy on the last slide to ChatGPTo1 and it suggests considering a slightly different approach. I also combined the output from ChatGPT with some other sources from your website plus a couple of your White Papers in Google NotebookLM, and had a quick chat. It's exposing an opportunity I think we should explore. If you'll allow me, I can take over the screen and share with you and the rest of the Board."

Where do you go?

You embrace it, naturally. She goes on to explain that in a number of her portfolio companies, the Boards are harnessing GenAI in session, allowing them to create new space and make decisions on investments or deal with risks faster. No need to wait till the next Board meet, wasting your Leadership team's time, when you can thrash it out now.

What happens when the Board and Leadership team start harnessing these tools in real-time?

Better decisions get made on abstract ideas that suddenly come into focus. The rest of the organisation notices, and they embrace the pace and the opportunities to express their creativity. That rolls up to business performance because less time is wasted. Better allocation of resources and budgets. You know the deal.

The next Board meet is a more dynamic and productive event. It's also cost less to prepare for. You can feel a sea-change coming. You recall the closing comment from the Private Equity Board member when she remarked, "consider the latent capacity and capability that all of your combined employees have when enhanced by rapidly evolving AI and agentic workflows. Your basically doubling your workforce within the same FTE budget. That is scaling power."

You wonder to yourself if they are teaching these tools and mindset shifts to your managers who are going through the Executive MBA course at the international Business School that is costing €33k a pop over two years? And there's twenty of them signed up for it.

Time to look into that too.