AI does not fix chaos. It scales it. In AI for Business Leaders, Vinay Pasricha asks leaders to design the company as a brain, with memory, reasoning, action and feedback, before any tool is allowed to amplify what is already there. This one-page check turns that idea into 12 questions your leadership team can answer together.
If your three most experienced people left tomorrow, what would your company still know?
It starts with memory. When experienced people leave, what they know leaves with them, unless the company captured it first. Before you cut, capture.
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What the check covers
- Memory: what the company knows (3 questions)
- Reasoning: how decisions get made (2 questions)
- Action: where AI does the work (3 questions)
- Feedback: how the company learns (2 questions)
- Ownership: who owns AI (2 questions)
Count your yeses and the check places you in one of three bands:
- 10–12: Build loops. Your company has a system worth amplifying. Run one governed 90-day pilot, then decide to scale, fix or stop.
- 6–9: Fix the weakest part first. Find which of memory, reasoning, action or feedback scored lowest and strengthen it before you scale anything. Start small, but start seriously.
- 0–5: Design before you deploy. AI would amplify what is unclear today. Start with memory: capture what your most experienced people know.
Want the full framework?
The book goes further: its appendices include a 21-statement AI Readiness Audit and a one-page 90-Day AI Pilot Charter. AI for Business Leaders (Second Edition) is in hardcover on Amazon India. To work through the frameworks with other leaders, see the AI Leadership Course. To talk to Vinay about your company, use the enquiry form on the AI for Business path.