By Invitation

The room where you enter with assumptions and
leave with a position

Private forums for AI position, risk, and capital in the Research Triangle.
Current CEOs and senior executives at $20M+ companies.
Making active AI decisions and accountable for what those decisions produce.

The Room

Peers. Private. In person.

Quarterly. Private dining. Curated venues. Chatham House Rule.

Have the conversations your board thinks you are already having.
No slide decks. No demos. No sales. No sponsors. No vendors. No recordings.
The agenda is controlled by the people in the room.
The room stays clean because it is self-funded.

"You have twenty ideas. Which three matter?"

What Happens

You work. Every meeting.

Four times per year, unhurried dinners, and space to say the thing you can't say in the boardroom — with peers who carry the same weight.
You are in a room with leaders operating under real constraints — hearing how they are investing, where they are pulling back, and how they are navigating similar calls.
You rarely get visibility into how peers operate at this level. AI briefing on what shifted and a live decision on the table. You leave with documented, board-defensible positions — and less weight on your shoulders.

"Budgets fund activity. Strategy funds outcomes."

Founding Class

Two rooms. Now seating.

The Council is being seated now. The composition of each room matters. Founding members define how decisions are made inside the room. Founding members set the standard for every conversation that follows.

CEO Council

Current CEOs only.
Four sessions per year.

Founders: $7,500
Members: $9,000

Limited to 16 seats per year.

Executive Council

Current C-suite executives.
Four sessions per year.

Founders: $6,000
Members: $7,500

Up to 30 seats per year.
Who Belongs

Built for the person placing the bet

Find out if you are ahead, behind or selling yourself a story. Willing to work with peers who'll tell you what your team won't. What you hear in this room changes what you do Monday morning.

"Your competitors aren't waiting for your pilot to finish."

Your Chair

Melanie McLaughlin

Founder & Chief AI Officer · AI A Innovations

30+ years in emerging technology across twelve industries. Three decades of watching which bets burn capital and which ones pay off. Works from the sidelines, not the spotlight. No vendors to represent. No products to sell into the room. Not competing with anyone at the table. Prepares the intelligence briefing — what shifted, what it means, what's coming — even when it's not convenient to hear. Conversation starter — the room carries it forward.

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