You do not need another AI course. You need a system.
A system that lives inside your company. A system your team can run. A system that prints leverage every single week.
This is how to build an AI operating system as a non-technical CEO. Nine steps. Eight weeks. No theory. No prompts-as-product. No consultant on retainer.
Follow it yourself. Or follow it inside the room. Either way, finish it before Q4.
Why Most CEOs Never Start
Most CEOs treat AI like a tool. So they download ChatGPT. They hire a consultant. They watch a webinar. Then nothing changes.
AI is not a tool. AI is infrastructure.
You do not “use” your accounting system. You run your accounting system. Same logic applies here. An AI operating system is built once, hardened, then run forever.
The CEOs who get this in 2026 will compound for ten years. The ones who do not will spend ten years explaining why they fell behind.
Ready? Here is the playbook.
Step 1: Lock In Your Hardened AI Workspace (Week 1)
Stop using your personal ChatGPT login for company work.
Set up a hardened Claude workspace. Configure it to your business. Lock down data, sharing, and access from day one. This is the foundation. Skip it and everything you build later sits on sand.
Time to complete: 90 minutes. Cost: under $200 a month. Risk if skipped: your IP leaks.
Step 2: Write Your Personal Context Dossier (Week 1)
Your AI knows nothing about you. Fix that first.
Build a versioned dossier. Include your company, your role, your goals, your tone, your no-go zones, your team, your customers. Save it. Reuse it in every chat.
This single artifact 10x’s the quality of every output. Most CEOs never do it. Do not be most CEOs.
Step 3: Build Your Executive Skills Library (Week 2)
Skills are reusable AI workflows. Think of them as Lego bricks for your brain.
Pick the five things you do every week. Board prep. Pricing decisions. Hiring scorecards. Customer escalations. Investor updates. Build a skill for each one.
Now every Monday morning, you load a skill instead of starting from scratch. You just bought back five hours.
Step 4: Automate Your Daily Briefing and Inbox Triage (Week 3)
Your day should start with a one-page brief. Not 200 unread emails.
Set up an automated daily briefing. Pull from email, calendar, news, and your internal docs. Triage your inbox before you wake up. Surface the three decisions that need you today.
Cohort 1 CEOs report 5x personal output from this single workflow.
“$50,000 in revenue in two weeks. Pipeline over $600,000. 5x my personal output.” — Chris Geddes, Multi-Business Operator
Step 5: Stand Up Your Internal Knowledge Base (Week 4)
Your company already has the answers. They are buried in PDFs, transcripts, Slack threads, and one founder’s head.
Pull everything into a queryable knowledge base. Make it searchable in seconds. Now your team stops asking you the same question for the eighth time.
“Rebuilt my books in a weekend. It runs on a schedule now.” — Daniel Bear, Real Estate Operator
Step 6: Publish Your One-Page AI Policy (Week 5)
Your team is already using AI. The question is whether they are using it safely.
Write a one-page AI policy. What is allowed. What is not. Which tools. Which data. Who owns the output. Sign it. Share it. Done.
Skip this step and you will read about it in a lawsuit, not a blog post.
Step 7: Delegate Your First Workflow With AI In The Loop (Week 6)
Pick one process you currently own. Sales follow-up. Vendor vetting. Hiring shortlist. Anything.
Redesign it so AI does the first draft. A person reviews. A person ships. You stay out of it entirely.
This is the unlock. The CEO stops being the bottleneck. The team gets faster. Margin moves.
Step 8: Ship Your First Code-Assisted Automation (Week 7)
You do not need to learn to code. You need to learn to ship.
Pick one painful manual job. Bookkeeping reconciliation. Report generation. Data entry. Use AI to build a tiny automation that kills it.
“Saved close to $100,000 in coding costs. The leverage is enormous.” — Erik Powell, CEO, Glacier Precast
That quote is from a CEO who could not write a line of code before Week 1.
Step 9: Write Your 90-Day Build Plan (Week 8)
Week 8 is not the finish line. Week 8 is the launch pad.
Write a 90-day plan for what your team builds next. Three workflows. Two automations. One new skill per month. Owner. Deadline. KPI.
Now your AI operating system is not a project. It is a habit. The kind that compounds for the next decade.
What You Will Actually Have At The End
Strip away the buzzwords. Here is what sits inside your business after Week 8.
A hardened Claude workspace. A personal context dossier. An executive skills library. A daily briefing and inbox triage running on autopilot. An internal knowledge base. A one-page AI policy. A delegated workflow with AI in the loop. A shipped code-assisted automation. A 90-day build plan with owners and dates.
Nine artifacts. All built, not studied. All operational. All yours forever.
This is what an AI operating system for CEOs actually looks like.
The Honest Truth About Doing This Alone
You can follow these nine steps by yourself. The instructions are right above.
Most CEOs will not finish. Not because they are not smart. Because they are busy. Because nobody is holding them accountable. Because Week 3 is hard and Week 5 is harder and the COO is resisting and the quarter is closing.
That is why the Executive AI Program exists.
Two hours a week. Eight weeks. Fifteen CEOs. The exact nine-step playbook above, taught live by Andreas Pettersson — former Canon standalone CEO and bestselling author of AI Leadership Mastermind — and Sergey Dmitriev, three-time CEO and former Vistage Chair.
Cohort 1 closed in 9 days. The 15 CEOs generated $1.4M in pipeline and $312K in hard savings in the first 90 days after Week 8. Zero dropouts.
Cohort 2 starts Tuesday, June 9. Seven of fifteen seats are already claimed. Founder pricing is $2,945. One time. No subscription.
If you cannot point to measurable ROI by Week 8, the program refunds you in full.
The price is not for the information. The information is above. The price is for speed, accountability, and the room.
“The price is not based on the knowledge I will get. It is based on the quality of people inside the room.” — Viktor Kravchenko
Who This Is For. And Who It Is Not.
This is for CEOs, founders, and majority owners of non-tech operating companies between $5M and $100M in revenue. LinkedIn is verified within 24 hours. If you do not qualify, your payment is not accepted.
This is not for AI consultants selling frameworks. Not for pre-revenue founders. Not for teams that want AI discussed but never implemented. Not for anyone outsourcing transformation to a vendor.
Fifteen seats. Hard cap. No sixteenth seat under any condition.
Three Questions You Are Already Asking
Will this work if I am not technical? Yes. The nine steps are built for non-technical CEOs. Cohort 1 included a precast concrete CEO, a law firm owner, and a real estate operator. None were technical at Week 1. All were shipping by Week 8.
Will my data be safe? Yes. You operate inside your own hardened workspace. Your data stays yours. Policy, architecture, and controls are walked through in Week 1.
What if I miss a week? All sessions are recorded. The Lab format means you build live with the cohort. Miss one week, the next skill still unlocks. The room keeps moving.
The Decision That Decides The Next Decade
You now have the nine-step playbook. Most CEOs will close this tab and do nothing. A few will start. Even fewer will finish.
The CEOs who finish- alone or in the room- will own an AI operating system that compounds for the next ten years. Everyone else will be renting capability and explaining the gap.
Cohort 2 starts June 9. 11 AM ET / 8 AM PT. Eight weeks. $2,945 founder pricing. Refund guaranteed by Week 8. LinkedIn verified within 24 hours.
