Thirteen editorial profiles of the people shaping how businesses adopt AI — what they built, what they publish, and what is genuinely being said about them. Every claim links to its source. Plus free tools to build your own business case first.
Sourced and dated. Written for the person signing the invoice.
Seven questions that separate a consultant who will ship something from one who will sell you a strategy deck. Written for a business owner, not a CTO.
Read the guide →Published rates, what the numbers actually mean, and why almost every figure you will find online was written by someone selling the service.
Read the guide →The four distinct jobs sold under one label — and how hiring the wrong one is the most common and most expensive mistake.
Read the guide →Researchers, educators, operators and one paid training programme. Each profile covers what they are known for, what they have actually published or shipped, and what the public record says about them — including criticism, where it exists.
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Runs DeepLearning.AI, AI Fund and Landing AI at once, chairs Coursera, sits on Amazon’s board — and argues publicly against the AI-extinction framing.
Read the profile →The Wharton professor who publishes the experiment, including when it fails. Reviewers call the book practical; some call its conclusions idealistic.
Read the profile →Started on marketing-and-AI in 2016, years before it was obvious. A translator for executives, not a technologist — and clear about it.
Read the profile →A practising data scientist who publishes the prompt and the method, not just the conclusion. Eight-time IBM Champion in Data and AI.
Read the profile →Enterprise AI ROI research built on 1,500+ interviews — plus a separate philosophical project on what should succeed humanity.
Read the profile →Analyst turned AI investor. We corrected our own entry on him: two claims we could not source have been removed.
Read the profile →Advised TikTok and Reddit, sold companies to WeWork and StumbleUpon. Not an implementation consultant — an idea source.
Read the profile →Curates FutureTools and one of the largest AI YouTube channels. We removed the superlative we could not source.
Read the profile →Runs a multi-agent company from local hardware. The frontier of what agents can do — not a plan a small business should copy.
Read the profile →Build-alongs rather than motivation. Every income figure attached to his name is self-reported — we label them all.
Read the profile →Teaches AI and entrepreneurship at Lipscomb; runs Rock Castle AI. Two headline revenue figures we could not verify.
Read the profile →Google’s first Chief Decision Scientist. Starts from the decision you are trying to make, not the technology — which kills a lot of bad projects early.
Read the profile →Made analytics a boardroom subject in 2006. Babson professor, MIT fellow, 25 books — patterns across many firms, not one operator generalising.
Read the profile →Philosophy professor turned AI ethical-risk consultant. Advised the Canadian government and EY. Sceptical of ethics-as-marketing.
Read the profile →Ran the industry’s first algorithmic bias bounty at Twitter. First U.S. Science Envoy for AI. Read her if your model decides things about people.
Read the profile →The antidote to shipping on vibe checks. Ex-GitHub and Airbnb; his material tells you what to demand from whoever you hire.
Read the profile →Wrote the two books engineers actually keep on the desk. The fastest way for a buyer to learn enough to ask a vendor hard questions.
Read the profile →Ex-AWS head of ML for startups. Excellent translator for executives — but audience size measures distribution, not implementation skill.
Read the profile →Works one level up: what a technology does to an industry’s economics over years. Pair him with a practitioner.
Read the profile →Specialises in retrieval — the most common way company AI quietly disappoints. His open-source library is a firmer credential than a client list.
Read the profile →Eight free calculators — ROI, readiness, risk, skills gaps, vendor comparison. No sign-up, nothing stored, and they run in your browser. Walk into a discovery call with your own numbers.
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