Chris Copeland shares findings from Upwork’s HAPI study on the efficacy of autonomous AI Agents that covers measuring business value, stages of the testing methodology, and patterns revealed in the results. Upwork’s 300-project study reveals autonomous AI agents struggle with simple tasks—but structured human oversight unlocks dramatic performance gains. Here’s the decision framework business operators […]
Jeremy Wano. Operations and strategy leader with over 10 years of experience in management consulting, high-growth technology companies, and the U.S. Navy. Specializes in building operating models, planning frameworks, and executive review cadences to drive strategic decisions. Holds an MBA from Tuck and an MPA from Harvard.
Ave Leslie. Ave is an organizational effectiveness consultant, trained as a behavioral scientist (PhD, UChicago) and formerly of BCG’s People & Organization practice. He works with leadership teams when the business direction is set and the constraint is now the organization itself: org design, talent systems, culture strategy, change and transformation, post-merger culture integration. Previously […]
Ryan King explains why buying AI from vendors is often better than building it in-house; she shares the data on reaching production value, and four questions to ask before approving the budget to build AI in-house. I have sat in a lot of rooms where a company talked itself into building its own AI. The […]
Oliver Schneidemann. Interim and fractional Transformation Leader with a proven record of enabling organizations to unlock profit and efficiency opportunities through strategic change management. Experienced in establishing portfolio prioritization frameworks and driving complex transformations to achieve enterprise-wide impact during periods of transition, growth, or delivery pressure.
Nikhil Jadhav draws attention to greenwashing, climate change guilt, and the squeeze that turns concerned citizens into confused bystanders. Sitting at a McDonald’s in Heathrow Airport, waiting for our family’s flight to Boston, I watched my daughter wrestle with a soggy paper straw that clearly hadn’t been tested on milkshakes. It was a small thing, […]
Luke Marple. Senior human resources and organizational leadership executive with 20 years of experience in high-performance environments. Expertise in organizational talent strategy, leadership assessment and development, and AI-enabled workforce transformation. Known for building structure and driving results in fast-moving organizations.
Dhruv Gulati highlights the difficulty of evaluating the efficacy of the AI product and how to measure it. The number of ways to build an AI product has outrun the market’s ability to evaluate them. A single capability, contract review, can now be built in more distinct ways than a diligence team could test in […]
🔦NEW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Ajmal Bachtari. Ajmal is a strategy and transformation expert with extensive experience in corporate strategy, operating model design, and business transformation. He has a proven track record in leading complex transformation programs and implementing scalable operating models across various industries. Umbrex is a global community of over 8,000 independent management consultants with […]
Richard Brasser asks how much AI is creating real enterprise value for your company, how much is wishful thinking, and what to do about it. I met with a CEO of a growth company in commercial construction. The company doesn’t really matter because I suspect some version of this conversation is happening inside companies everywhere. […]
Rui Cao shares a few thoughts on leaving McKinsey and invitation to join a conversation on moving on from a job, title, and identity. When I first met Eric Liu, I assumed we had very different stories. I had spent nearly a decade at McKinsey. Eric left much earlier in his journey. Our reasons for […]
🔦NEW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Dhruv Gulati. Dhruv spent a decade in advisory at Bain and Oliver Wyman before founding Caliper Lab, an independent AI evaluation firm built with a team of AI scientists, evaluation researchers, and domain experts. Caliper tests what AI and agentic products can actually do against structured benchmarks, work that increasingly sits inside […]