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Options, Not Pilots: The Mechanics of AI Capital Allocation

The AI proposals arrive at your executive committee one at a time. Knowledge Management wants to test an agentic research workflow. The corporate group wants automated first-pass diligence. Business Development has found a tool that promises to identify cross-selling opportunities from the firm’s relationship data.

Your goal is to keep AI-driven change from outrunning your capacity to govern, validate, and adapt to it. If you are thinking only about slowing AI down, you are focusing on the wrong problem.

During the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, public health officials introduced a concept that quickly entered the common…