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Your data isn’t broken. Your operating model is.

AI scales whatever clarity — or confusion — already exists inside your organization. Find out which one you’re feeding it.

  • 7 questionsfrom the book’s Clarity Test
  • About 5 minutesone question at a time
  • Your resulta readiness score and your priorities
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Book cover: Your data isn't broken. Your operating model is.

The method, in one example

Three moves, in order. Each one earns the next.

In one company, the word “order” means four different things to four teams. Choose a stage to see what each move changes.

definitions clashSalesNo clear ownerOnlineNo clear ownerFulfilmentNo clear ownerFinanceNo clear ownerLeadership3 numbersorder = signed dealorder = invoiceorder = shipmentorder = paid cart
Illustrative example: five places where work happens, and the handoffs between them.

01 / Assess See the terrain honestly

Four teams use four meanings of “order”, and no one owns the handoffs. The numbers disagree exactly where the teams meet — and AI would learn all four versions.

What it means for the business

Leadership gets three different numbers for the same question, and meetings go to deciding which one is right.

High AI model intelligence + low organizational fit = scaled confusion at machine speed.

High AI model intelligence + high operating clarity = scaled value and market outperformance.

Chapter 1 AI Is a ForceThe seven questions below show which line your organization is on.

7 Questions 5 Minutes

The AI-Readiness Scorecard

Seven questions from the book’s Clarity Test. Score your organization honestly — the goal isn’t a high number, it’s an accurate one.

What you get

  • A readiness score out of 35, and your band
  • Your priority areas, each with a first step
  • A question to take to your leadership team

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Question 1 of 7

Question 1 of 7: Can your leadership team explain the operating structure of the company on one page?

Book cover: Your data isn't broken. Your operating model is.

The Book

A leadership book about AI at scale.

“This book is written for leaders in complex enterprises — organizations spanning multiple markets, systems, and regulatory regimes, where no single person can hold the whole operation in their head…”
IntroductionThe New Reality of Leadership

What you’ll take away

  1. 1

    See where AI will stall — before it does

    Run the seven-question Clarity Test, then the scored version with a leadership-team variance test.

    Assess Chapter 7 and the Appendix

  2. 2

    Set the enterprise in lockstep

    One operating structure, shared meaning, named owners and governance that removes ambiguity instead of adding process.

    Align Chapters 8, 10, 11 and 13

  3. 3

    Turn clarity into speed

    The CEO’s ninety-day reset, and how to move AI from isolated pilots to enterprise scale.

    Accelerate Chapters 16 and 17

Kindle edition · 99 pages · a 90-minute readRead a free sample on Amazon

The Authors

Two complementary lenses. One method.

“The argument works only because both are on the page at once — and in most organizations, they almost never are.”
The book’s Introduction
Adam Ayres headshot

The Operator

Adam Ayres

The lens

The leadership method and the focus on execution

Has spent his career at the top tier of corporate leadership. Brings the execution lens that keeps the method out of the IT department — and the discipline to ask which decisions can never be delegated to a dashboard.

“…spent a career at the top of corporate leadership — cutting through organizational inertia, defining what ‘good’ looks like, aligning people to execute under pressure.”
From the book’s Introduction
Behrang Karimi headshot

The Architect

Behrang Karimi

The lens

The architecture and the end-to-end data integration

Bridges the commercial side that creates value and the data layer that records it. With a background in economics and computer science, he architected the Operating Tree and the structural framework at the heart of the book.

“…moved deliberately from the commercial side into the data layer, to watch how executive decisions harden into data fields and learn precisely what gets lost in translation.”
From the book’s Introduction
“The defining challenge of our time is not a technology problem; it is a test of organizational clarity and leadership courage.”
Behrang Karimi Adam Ayres
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Kindle edition · 99 pages · a 90-minute readRead a free sample on Amazon