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What Should Your Company Own?

How CEOs keep control of their data, economics, and operating leverage as AI moves into the core of the company.

Format
Keynote or executive briefing
Length
30 minutes plus guided Q&A
Best for
CEOs, presidents, portfolio leaders, and senior operating teams
An editorial systems map with company controls, a central data vault, workflows, and external cloud infrastructure
Program studySam Gaddis

The question

What should your company own, build, or replace?

Every CEO is being pushed to produce an AI strategy. The harder question is where the company should depend on a vendor and where it should control its own data, workflows, software, and institutional knowledge. This session gives leaders a practical way to make those choices without pretending the technology has stopped moving.

Tailored for this audience. The examples and AI stack map change for each audience. A manufacturing group should see different dependencies than a software company or a family office.

Main example

The company AI stack, mapped layer by layer.

I walk through a prepared company case and show how costs and risks change across models, data, workflows, and software. The map makes clear where vendor dependence creates a real problem.

How it runs

The session, end to end.

  1. 01 / Tailor

    Choose the company example

    I select examples and dependencies that match the kinds of companies represented in the audience.

  2. 02 / Show

    Map the AI stack

    A prepared case makes the rent, portability, and ownership choices visible one layer at a time.

  3. 03 / Send

    Take the rubric home

    Participants receive the field kit and a 90-day plan for one capability the company controls itself.

What people take home

What people can do next.

  1. Map the five layers of the company AI stack and decide where control matters most.
  2. Separate reversible vendor choices from dependencies that become expensive to unwind.
  3. Set a 90-day sequence for one owned capability without freezing the company into a grand plan.

Bring it to your group

Bring me the problem your team is trying to solve.

Tell me who is coming and what they need from the session. I'll recommend the talk and format that fit.

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