The Reality Gap™
What leaders say about AI and what’s actually happening are often two different things.
The Reality Gap™ starts with confidential interviews with every leader on your executive team and a deliberate sample of the people who work for them, two levels down. What comes back:
How each leader uses AI in their own work, and where the executive team disagrees on priorities, investment, or pace.
Which AI investments are making a difference, which tools are going unused, and what’s stopping good work from scaling.
Who’s already solving real problems with AI, what they’ve built, and whether they’re getting the support and recognition they need.
Where everyday AI use falls outside your policies: the tools people use, the workflows they’ve built, and the data they share.
Where your culture helps AI take hold and where it gets in the way, from manager behavior to incentives and unwritten rules, with scores benchmarked against your peers.
Why people aren’t using AI, and what would actually help them start. More training isn’t always the answer.
It ends with a plan: where the next dollar goes, on a 30-60-90 day clock, with clear owners.
- 30 days
- 60 days
- 90 days
The Reality Gap™ is the diagnosis. Everything we build after it is the answer.