The CAIO Field Guide. How to become the person who owns AI.
For operators, not engineers. What the Chief AI Officer seat really owns, how to run your first 90 days, and how to prove it paid off, with five worksheets to use on your own organization this week.
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What's inside
The seat nobody owns
What goes wrong when AI is nobody’s job, and the job in one sentence.
The Systems Instinct
Five habits that matter more than code, each with something to do this week.
The five things the seat owns
Strategy, policy, process, proof, and people: what good looks like and the first move in each.
Your first 90 days
A checklist for each 30 days: map, ship one win, prove it and hand it off.
Proving it paid off
The four numbers every deployment needs, and the vanity metrics to avoid.
Taking the seat
Three paths in: inside your organization, as a fractional officer, or as your next chapter.
- Repeated-work inventory
- One-page AI use policy
- One-win scorecard
- 90-day readout
- One-page role proposal
Find out where to start
The guide is built around the same five habits as the free Systems Instinct assessment. Take it first to see which chapter to read twice.