Preview
One page, forty-eight hours before the table.
This is the whole pre-read. No slides, no vendor material, no reading list — one decision, framed by the member who brought it.
Which AI use cases do we fund, gate or kill this quarter?
What the member has already tried
- We have 40-odd AI pilots and no way to compare them.
- Legal wants a register. The board wants a number.
- Nobody owns the decision to stop one.
The three questions this table answers
- What is the smallest inventory that is still honest?
- Who has the authority to kill a pilot, and have they ever used it?
- What would we have to see to move a pilot into production?
Do we consolidate three ERP instances, or run them to end-of-life?
What the member has already tried
- Three instances from three acquisitions, all customised.
- The consolidation business case keeps failing on payback period.
- Support ends in 2029 either way.
The three questions this table answers
- What breaks first if we do nothing for two more years?
- Which of the three is actually the template, and who decides?
- What does the clean-core version cost in process change, not licences?
Can we prove recovery, or only claim it?
What the member has already tried
- We have a tested backup and an untested recovery.
- The board asks for an RTO number we cannot evidence.
- Our third parties are the real exposure.
The three questions this table answers
- When did we last recover a tier-one system end to end, for real?
- Who signs the statement that we can, and what are they relying on?
- Which third party would take us down, and do they know that?
Do we rebuild the platform team, or buy the capability?
What the member has already tried
- Attrition took the three people who knew the system.
- Contract rates are now above our senior salary band.
- Every option takes longer than the roadmap allows.
The three questions this table answers
- What did those three actually know that nobody wrote down?
- Which part of this is genuinely differentiating?
- What is the honest cost of the option we keep dismissing?
Topics are real; the framing is composed from the kinds of decisions members bring. Nothing here is taken from a specific table.
Why the pre-read is one page
Because eight senior people will read it on a phone, between meetings, and a table that spends its first twenty minutes on context has lost a quarter of itself.
The decision, not the topic
“AI governance” is a topic. “Which pilots do we kill this quarter” is a decision. Only one of those can be answered in ninety minutes.
What has already been ruled out
Stops seven people suggesting the option you discarded in March.
Three questions, no more
Thirty minutes each. The constraint is what makes the room useful.
Bring the decision you are carrying.
One paragraph, read by a person within two business days.