Vinay Pasricha Explorer of Emergence
Now Writing The Signal Building GoodSpace AI Running Cohort III

A small, intense cohort for senior operators thinking through AI in their own business.

Not a webinar. Not a content library. A six-week working group built around the framework from AI for Business Leaders — applied to your company, your team, your constraints.

The AI Leadership Course runs three or four times a year, capped at 18 operators per cohort. Cohort III is currently underway. The next cohort begins in the second half of 2026; details below.

— What you do over six weeks

Six modules. Six concrete deliverables. One AI strategy you actually own.

Each module is one week — a 90-minute live session with the cohort, a working assignment between sessions, and a final deliverable you can take into your next leadership meeting. The cohort is the point. You will learn at least as much from the other 17 operators as from the material.

i.

The AI honest snapshot

An unromantic map of what AI actually is in 2026 — what works reliably, what doesn't, and where the genuine leverage lives. We separate the marketing from the substrate.

Deliverable · your company's AI honest snapshot
ii.

Where the leverage is in your business

The structural exercise of identifying — concretely, not in slides — the two or three places where AI deployment could shift a real metric in your specific business.

Deliverable · your leverage map, prioritised
iii.

What you will not use AI for

The defensive doctrine. What kinds of decisions, customer interactions, and internal processes must stay human — and what your written commitment to that looks like.

Deliverable · your AI red lines, signed
iv.

The human-AI handoff protocol

How tasks move between AI and your team. The boundary cases. Who decides when AI escalates back to a human. How quality is measured. The protocol turns AI from a vibe into a system.

Deliverable · your team's handoff protocol
v.

Re-architecting teams and metrics

What changes inside your team when AI is a colleague. New roles, retired ones, the metrics that no longer measure anything useful, the ones that suddenly do.

Deliverable · your team redesign, draft v1
vi.

Your leadership posture

The last week is personal. What kind of leader do you want to be through this transition? What posture do you want your team to mirror? You leave with a written posture, defended.

Deliverable · your written AI leadership posture
— Who this is for

A small cohort of serious operators.

Founders & CEOs of mid-stage companies.

Particularly those whose business is being asked to absorb AI in operations, product, or hiring — and who want to do it without losing the plot.

Senior executives inside larger institutions.

CXOs, VPs, GMs who are being asked to set AI direction for thousands of employees and want a private, candid working group.

Operators leading transformation programs.

Chief Transformation Officers, heads of strategy, internal AI leads who need a clearer doctrine than what their consultants are offering.

Founders building AI-native companies.

For whom the question is not "should we use AI" but "how do we build an organisation that uses it well" from day one.

— Next cohort

Cohort IV begins Q3 2026.

Cadence 6 weeks · once a week
Time commitment ~4 hours / week
Cohort size 18 operators, max
Format Live · online
Includes All five books
Application Selective · by referral or letter
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