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View from a CEO in the World of AI
Posts by John Ishak, CEO, Aventine AI. Each one answers a question business leaders are asking about AI, in four short paragraphs.
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Does Aventine practise what it builds?
It is a fair question to ask any AI firm, and I am happy to answer it. At Aventine AI we are progressively applying the same workflow principles inside our own…
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How can AI give insolvency teams more capacity?
For an insolvency practice, the useful AI question is how much professional time can be recovered from administration. Reviewing correspondence, assembling…
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How can leaders see profitability before month-end?
A profitability report is only as useful as its timing. If it arrives after the decision has been made, it is history, not insight. The opportunity for finance…
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How can finance escape the month-end bottleneck?
Finance leaders often ask me whether AI can fix month-end. The better ambition is not to abandon the close but to reduce the work that piles up before it.…
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How does Microsoft 365 move from AI assistance to connected workflows?
For organisations running Microsoft 365, the most useful place to start with AI is the work already happening in email, meetings, documents and shared files.…
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What makes a better customer journey?
When businesses talk about improving customer experience with AI, the first idea is usually a chatbot. I would suggest starting somewhere else: making the…
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Is your CRM moving leads forward or just storing them?
A lead sitting in a CRM is not the same as an opportunity being progressed. The gap usually comes down to unfinished research, incomplete information,…
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Are you getting full value from the CRM you already own?
Before buying another sales platform, I suggest leaders look at how much manual work their team still does inside the CRM they already own. Prospect research,…
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How do you lead people through AI change?
Workplace conversations about AI can swing quickly between fear and exaggerated promise. Neither helps a team do better work. As a leader, you do not need to…
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What is a practical framework for AI guardrails?
Guardrails are most valuable when they shape a project before anything goes live, not when they are bolted on afterwards. I use a simple three-part framework…
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Why do AI agents need enforced boundaries?
AI agents are now being given real tasks inside real systems, which raises a question every leader should ask before switching one on: what is it actually…
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Where should AI governance actually live?
Most organisations now have an AI policy. That is a good start, but a policy is not an operating control. Once AI becomes part of finance, sales, customer…
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Who controls your AI, and who should?
There is a critical difference between AI that provides information and AI that takes action. The moment a system can update records, trigger a workflow or…
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Could your board explain how your business uses AI?
Here is a question every board should be able to ask, and every management team should be able to answer: where is AI being used in this business, what is it…
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What does responsible AI look like before go-live?
An adoption plan explains where a business intends to use AI. A responsible implementation plan goes further: how people will use it safely, who owns the…
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Can we have strong AI guardrails and still be productive?
Leaders often frame guardrails and productivity as a trade-off: protect the business, or move quickly. I do not accept that framing. The right approach to AI…
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Where should we start with automation?
My favourite opening question in any AI conversation is a simple one: which task would you happily stop doing by hand? It moves the discussion away from…
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Where is the hidden admin work in my business?
Some of the best automation opportunities sit in the spaces between the tasks a business formally measures. Moving information, chasing approvals, preparing…
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Why isn't access to AI tools enough to win?
Almost every business now has access to capable AI. So where does the advantage come from? In my view, it comes from what changes in the way work gets done. An…
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How should a business choose between AI models?
Much of the public conversation about AI is framed as a contest over which company, or which country, is winning. It makes for good headlines, but it is the…
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Do we need an AI shopping list or an AI operating model?
When leaders tell me they have an AI plan, it is often a list of products to buy. That is a shopping list. What a business actually needs is an operating model:…
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Which AI developments should a CEO actually pay attention to?
Every week brings another AI announcement, and I am often asked which ones matter. My honest answer is that, for any given business, very few of them do. The…
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