Strategy

New UK CEO? Every management layer is a delay that slows decisions and adds cost. Use AI to cut the relay work, widen spans and keep the judgement.

If you are new in the chair, the briefing you most need is the one nobody is able to give you. Why your predecessor left, and what to look for instead.

Witteveen’s Jev and OpenJevs build: put a typed decision layer in front of expensive models, and own both the confidence bar and where that decision runs.

Ending first Stop paying generative models to decide what something is. Use a fast decision engine for routing. Call an expensive System-2 model only when the work needs full-text synthesis or hard reasoning. Most operational volume is classification. Price it that way. One repeatable line Classify cheap. Generate rare. Opening scene A service firm runs

Ending first No autonomous bot should email a client, update a CRM record that triggers client-visible status, or close a workflow that spends trust, unless a calibrated confidence score clears a bar you set. Below the bar, a human gets a one-click approve. That is the whole control. One repeatable line Automation scales. Unchecked confidence

You were not set up to fail. You were handed a map. The roads leading you off a cliff were not on it. Find the Briefing Gap before the first board meeting locks the plan.

A newly appointed CEO watches the demo. An agent finds the SKU, negotiates a slot, and pays. The room applauds. Nobody owns the ledger that shows which model burned the tokens, which wallet settled the cent, or who can revoke the spend. That is not an AI win. That is an open tab with a

The previous CEO left a funded list. You have a title and a board that wants momentum. Their list still has the budget. Yours does not. Kill two inherited initiatives this month before you fund a new one. I will not hide that behind a new operating model. Two firms in one building It is

You inherited a plan that is already running. The board still wants your 90-day plan in week four. That pack was written for a firm that is not the one you now have. Grade the execution gap this week. Do not write your initial CEO plan until you have. I will not hide that behind

Run two gates this quarter before you treat a hyperscaler multiple as earned. Grade duration of use, then payback on the next build. I will not treat today’s prices as proven until both grade A or B. I will not hide that behind a 400-row forecast. Four markets, not one token price Frontier labs (OpenAI,