You’re expected to lead AI. Nobody handed you the manual.
Every CEO has a stance on finance, people, legal and strategy. AI now needs one too. Answer five questions and get an AI leadership readiness score, the sprint that fits your situation, and the reason why. Under a minute. No email required.
Find your sprint ↓40+ years in technology · 6x CTO appointments · Nearly 7 years at AWS · 80+ organisations studied
The gap is not technical. It is positional.
You earned the position without ever needing to understand how technology works under the hood. Now everyone says AI will transform your operations, your board is asking questions, vendors are circling with answers they profit from, and somewhere in the building your people are already pasting company information into tools nobody approved.
You are expected to direct something you were never given the chance to understand. That is not a knowledge problem to be embarrassed about. It is a leadership situation to be structured. The businesses that win with AI are never the ones with the best tools. They are the ones with the leadership to direct them.
There are six ways to work with us on AI, and the right one depends on where you are, who can carry the work, and whether AI has already started moving inside the business. The Sprint Picker below finds your door.
Which AI Sprint fits your business?
Five questions. Under a minute. Your readiness score and the sprint that fits, with the reason why.
Built by someone who has sat in the technology chair. Six times.
Timothy J. Hitchens has led technology functions for more than 25 years, held six CTO appointments across 10+ countries, and spent nearly seven years at Amazon Web Services as Head of Solution Architecture for Asia Pacific and Japan. The sprints exist because the same problem kept appearing: capable people, real budgets, and no clear standard for what good technology leadership looks like.
“Our sprint velocity has almost doubled and we have shifted from reactive small stuff to bigger, more meaningful projects that actually move the business forward. TJ is not your typical consultant who shows up with a deck and disappears.”
Mike R · CEO, AustraliaEach sprint earns the next sentence.
They are doors, not a ladder. But when a business moves through them, this is what each one adds. Every sprint writes into Techshin MAP, one record of the work, so nothing is repeated.
AI Stance Sprint
“I know what AI means for my business.”
AI Scope Sprint
“I know what AI should do.”
AI Framing Sprint
“My leadership team knows how to govern AI.”
AI Activating Sprint
“We’re leading implementation well.”
AI Advancing Sprint
“We’re continuously improving and course correcting.”
No capacity to carry any of it? The AI MAP Sprint is the done for you door. We run the interviews, build the map and hand back the picture, so the business can stop guessing.
Prefer to talk it through instead?
Thirty minutes. No cost. We confirm fit, scope, and timing. If we are not the right fit, we will say so on the call.
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