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Vistage Group AI integration sessions across fifteen industries.

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Ran a sequence of half-day and full-day sessions with Vistage Group chairs and member companies across fifteen industries - mining services, accommodation, professional services, food, retail.

Each session was built from the operator's real systems, not a generic deck. The point of difference: I had shipped the stack we were discussing the day before. Workshops where the speaker hasn't recently built anything are workshops where the speaker is summarising other people's work; this is the opposite of that.

What landed best was the part where AI doesn't do what the deck says it does. Hallucination, eval brittleness, the cost-versus-latency trade-off, the moment when "model decides" becomes the wrong move. Executives need to hear those bits straight, not as risk-language wrapped around an upbeat sales pitch.

Limited dates per quarter; this is one of the engagement types Cognitiv runs deliberately.