Intellectual Frontiers Press
For Leaders
How to Fund, Govern, and Judge an AI Workforce That Finds Who Is Ready to Act
A bigger list spends senior time on people who have to say no.
Most business development starts with a list of names that look right and asks for more of them when the quarter goes badly. A good match still has to have the money, the authority, and a reason to act now, and most don’t. Every extra name spends more senior time on people who have to say no.
Forthcoming. The book is in review.
Most of the names your team pursues can’t act this quarter. Fund the system that knows which ones can.
A readiness workforce is one engineer, one domain operator, and an AI Workforce working under written rules. It finds who can act, records why, and stops cleanly where the evidence says no. This book is for the leader who funds it. It shows how to choose the outcome, cost the unit, control the risks, read the Actionboard, ask the right questions every month, hire the operator, judge a vendor’s claims, and expand only when a gate written in advance is met.
What you will be able to do
- fund one outcome a counterparty pays for instead of a bigger list;
- tell progress from activity in a monthly review built on records;
- write the gates that decide when the work expands, and when it stops;
- keep a register of the legal and reputational risks, each with an owner;
- hire the operator on a paid work sample instead of an interview; and
- judge a vendor by what it can show from your own records.