Alex Lieberman@businessbarista
My team spends all day talking AI with enterprise execs.
I asked them to share the most common questions they get.
Here's what we're hearing from the field:
• How to properly build a UAT suite that can test not only the new software we are building but also account for the AI features in some benchmark eval suite?
• How can I provide guardrails and direction to enable the front line to develop useful tools and applications for the business?
• How do you deal with fragmented data? What is your process to unify without a massive overhaul of our orgs data architecture?
• How do I stand up the internal motion to drive AI tools and workflows when everyone also has their day job?
• How do we know an agent that we create is actually "good"? How do we measure that? How can we improve it?
• How can I give employees full agency to create without impacting mission-critical systems/workflows/etc.?
• How do I uniformly transform a multi-thousand person org to adopt ai? How do we not leave anyone behind?
• How do I ensure that I roll out claude code and cowork securely without putting my company data at risk?
• How do I control spend of ai usage across my organization without limiting my employees' productivity?
• What does the operating model have to look like with my direct reports as well as the org with AI?
• How do I start controlling token spend and how do I think about attributing value to a token?
• How do we develop a central company brain to capture embedded organizational tacit knowledge?
• What are the best ways to be multi-model and have a multi threaded approach to partnerships?
• How can non technical people access, change, and iterate on apps they did not build?
• When an agent does eight hours of work, how does a human check it in eight minutes?
• What are the big investments I need to make in my data to make AI effective?
• How do I protect my data while still having the harness of cowork and code?
• How do employees in different business units edit, manage their own skills?
• How do we adopt AI so that we aren't vendor locked with one frontier lab?
• How do we ensure our AI usage is safe (infra & security controls)?
• What data is safe to put in (especially sensitive functions)?
• Whats the path from AI Literate, to AI Enabled, to AI First?
• How do we get people excited vs scared to lose their jobs?
• How can AI apply when I'm in a highly regulated industry?
• As a CEO, what do I need to know about AI to run my org?
• Should I hire a team vs. work with an external partner?
• What's the bleeding edge of applied AI look like today?
• How do we protect our proprietary data when using ai?
• How do we manage costs, and prevent runaway sessions?
• When processes are the problem, where do I start?
• How do we let people access internal data safely?
• Should I allow Skill creation? Artifact creation?
• Who should I give access to Claude Code or Codex?
• What does the cutting edge of AI SDLC look like?
• How do I "sell" AI internally within my company?
• How do I make big bets and also avoid lock in?
• How do I know which models are actually good?
• How to build model agnostic capabilities?
• Should I be implementing spending limits?
• Who owns a build after it's deployed?
• How to capture the full scope of ROI?
• How do we prioritize use-cases?
• What are other companies doing?
• Who should own AI internally?
• How do we distribute skills?
• What is an agent harness?
• How do we govern AI?
• Are we behind?