Stop guessing on AI. Leave with the decisions your board is waiting for.

Five to seven CEOs of non-tech companies. Six months. One four-hour session a month. Five documents your board can read. Led by Andreas Pettersson, Canon's youngest CEO, former CEO of Canon's Arcules, a 9-figure exit, Amazon bestselling author of Power Without Permission and host of the Adapt or Die podcast. The next cohort starts January 2027 with five to seven seats, filled through a 20-minute fit call with Andreas: no pitch, no slides.

At a glance

• 6 months: January to June 2027.
• 5 to 7 CEOs, non-competing industries.
• One four-hour session a month, plus a 10-minute weekly pulse.
• Five board-ready documents, reviewed by the room.

Your board is asking about AI. You are expected to have an answer.

A decision without a deadline is a thought experiment. Every quarter without one is a quarter your competitors use. You are not behind. You are missing the room where the decision gets made.

• IT wants control. Momentum and ROI stall in approvals.
• Vendors are circling. Each claims their tool is the strategy.
• Your team is already experimenting. With tools nobody approved.
• Board updates drift into buzzwords. Because there is no framework to separate real from hype.

Five documents your board can read. Built in six months.

Drafted in the room, finished between sessions, pressure-tested by five to seven CEOs before your board sees them.

• One-page AI strategy. Readable in two minutes.
• ROI model. Which use cases to prioritize first, and why.
• Vendor scorecard. Proof you did the homework.
• AI policy and governance. Unblocks IT without creating risk.
• Adoption plan. So the organization actually changes.

Most AI advisors teach what they read. Andreas built the company.

Andreas Pettersson is a three-time CEO and Canon's youngest. Built an AI company from 3 to 150+ people across five countries. Led a 9-figure exit. Arcules was cloud-native video surveillance powered by computer vision and machine learning. Andreas lived every stage of enterprise AI: hiring PhDs and building proprietary ML on petabytes of data, shipping production AI at 80%+ accuracy, moving to off-the-shelf tools as the market matured, and rolling AI out internally for productivity. He knows what works, what fails, and what a board actually needs to hear. He is not there to be liked. He is there to make sure your board gets an answer. Amazon bestselling author of Power Without Permission, author of AI Leadership Mastermind and host of the Adapt or Die podcast.

The thinking behind the room, in print.

Andreas is the author of two books: Power Without Permission, an Amazon bestseller on how strong leaders take ownership before anyone hands it to them, and AI Leadership Mastermind, on how CEOs lead their companies through AI without losing the room. Members get the playbook. The room makes them use it.

What CEOs say after working with Andreas

Fourteen CEOs and founders on video, in their own words. Full recordings and transcripts on the testimonials page.

• Daniel Bear, Founder, LandQuest Pro "Working with Andreas helped me build out a scorecard and KPIs to hit."
• Bethany LaFlam, Founder and CEO, Conscious Capital Collective "I remodeled, revamped, and relaunched my entire business in about a week: work that would have taken me months."
• Justin McColgan, Owner, Lion Head Property "He's opened my mind. Otherwise I would have been stagnant."
• See all full videos and transcripts Rebecca Hall, Daniella Devine, Christopher Geddes, Stella Han, Marina St. Cyr, Sameer Verma, Erik Powell, Viktor Kravchenko, Cindy Chang, Trever Ahing and Ivan Casiano.

A decision-forcing room, not a meeting.

Five to seven CEOs. One four-hour online session a month. Timeboxed to the minute. It is not a comfortable room. It is a sharp one. Pre-start, 15 minutes: phones in the basket, everyone arrives with their current AI decision in writing. Grounding round, 20 minutes: Andreas goes first, each CEO names the metric they care about, a health snapshot, an urgency rating and the question they brought. Two or three hot seats of up to 60 minutes each: one CEO, one real AI decision framed as situation, complication, question, answer so far; questions before opinions; ends with a reversible decision for the next seven days. Commitments and calibration, 30 minutes: every member states one commitment with a date, witnessed by the room. The goal is not to get AI right. It is to get decisions right. Faster. Repeatedly.

• Weekly pulse. Every Monday: one win, one stall, one decision due before Friday, and a green, yellow or red on your commitment.
• Commitment tracker. A shared table of member, commitment, deadline and status. The power is in the visibility of drift.
• Facilitator follow-up. Yellow: a specific message from Andreas within 24 hours. Red: a 10-minute diagnostic call within 48 hours.
• Capability pulse. Twenty minutes a month on three curated signals, each tied to a member's decision. Curation is the job.
• Assumption audit. Every four months the room re-examines what it has taken for granted.
• External pressure test. Every other month an outside voice tests the room's thinking, so it never becomes an echo chamber.

The six rules of the room

• CEOs only. The person who owns the full P&L.
• Preparation is the entry fee. Nobody sits in the room without their current AI decision in writing.
• Candor is the currency. You are expected to push back.
• Attendance is presence. Repeated no-shows without a word lead to removal.
• No competing industries. If they could sit on each other's boards, they cannot sit in this room.
• The facilitator is held to the same standard.

Is this your room?

This is for you if you own the full P&L of a non-tech company, your board or owner group is already asking about AI, you are ready to decide, not just learn, and you will share real numbers with peers under confidentiality. It is not for you if:

• You want a team to build it for you. That is the Fractional AI Executive.
• You want to learn and run the tools yourself. That is the Executive AI Program.
• You want AI theory or a course. Everything here ends in a decision with a date.
• You have no board, owner group or leadership team to report to.
• You want a general CEO peer group. That is the CEO Mastermind.

Three ways to work with Leaders ADAPT on AI

The Executive AI Program: you build the systems, eight weeks, one two-hour session a week. The AI Leadership Mastermind: you decide the strategy, six months, one four-hour session a month plus a weekly pulse, five to seven CEOs in non-competing industries, recommended for board-level strategy. The Fractional AI Executive: Andreas runs it for you, six months, for $10M and up companies. Not sure which? Book the fit call and bring your board's question.

• Executive AI Program for CEOs and owners who want to run their own AI systems: nine systems live in eight weeks.
• Fractional AI Executive for $10M and up companies that want someone to own the AI function: Andreas inside the leadership team for six months.

The CEOs in this room did not wait for the next board meeting. Bring the decision you have been carrying alone.

Five to seven CEOs. Non-competing industries. Six months. Seats for the January 2027 cohort are filled through a 20-minute call with Andreas. If the room is not right for you, he will tell you on the call.

Common questions

Who is the AI Leadership Mastermind for?

CEOs who own the full P&L of a non-tech company, typically $5M to $100M in revenue, whose board, owners or leadership team are already asking for the AI strategy. Each cohort is five to seven CEOs from non-competing industries. COOs and founders in the same seat are considered on the fit call.

What is the format and how much time does it take?

One four-hour online session a month for six months, plus a 10-minute weekly pulse and a shared commitment tracker. The session is timeboxed: 15 minutes pre-start, a 20-minute grounding round, two or three hot seats of up to 60 minutes each, then 30 minutes of commitments and calibration. Plan on about five hours a month.

What happens in a hot seat?

One CEO brings one real decision, framed as situation, complication, question, answer so far. The room asks questions before it gives opinions, then each CEO says what they would do and why. The seat ends with a decision and a date. Phones go in the basket and notes are taken by hand.

What do I leave with?

Decisions with deadlines, witnessed by peers, and the five working documents that follow from them: a one-page AI strategy, an ROI model, a vendor scorecard, an AI policy and governance framework, and an adoption plan. Drafted in the room, finished between sessions, reviewed by the room before your board sees them.

How are members selected?

Three gates. An evidence screen on the application, which looks for AI decisions you have made rather than interest in learning. A 20-minute call with Andreas, where both sides decide. A one-page write-up of your current AI decision through the three questions from the book. Non-competing industries is a hard rule, so a seat can be declined because a competitor is already in the cohort.

Is my company data and strategy kept confidential?

What is said in the room stays in the room, industries never compete, and vendor pitches and demos are not allowed in a session. You bring the decision, not the data: hot seats run on the situation and the numbers you choose to share, nothing is uploaded to a shared system, and the documents you draft stay yours.

What if I miss a session?

Tell the room before, not after. You keep the weekly pulse and the tracker, Andreas sends you the commitments from the session, and your hot seat moves to the next month. Repeated no-shows without a word lead to removal, because the room only works if everyone is in it.

How is this different from the book and from your other programs?

The book gives you the seven traps and the three weekly questions. The mastermind is where you apply them with peers, under a deadline, with your real decision on the table. The Executive AI Program teaches you to run the systems yourself in eight weeks. The Fractional AI Executive puts Andreas inside your leadership team. The CEO Mastermind is a general peer group, not an AI one.

What does the fit call cover?

Twenty minutes with Andreas, by phone. You bring one AI decision you made in the last six months and one your board is waiting on. Both sides decide whether this room is the right one and whether a seat in your industry is open. No pitch, no slides. If it is not the right room, he will say so.

How much does it cost, and how do I start?

Investment is shared on the fit call, together with whether a seat in your industry is open. The next cohort starts January 2027. Start with the Book your fit call button on this page.

By Leaders ADAPT, the leadership and AI advisory practice led by Andreas Pettersson, Canon's youngest CEO.