01 / FIXED SCOPE
AI Strategy Intensive
A focused engagement to identify high-value opportunities, test feasibility, and put a funded 90-day plan in front of the leadership team.
Opportunity map · priorities · roadmap
Enterprise AI transformation · Strategy to execution
Make AI work across the enterprise.
RecodeAI works with CEOs and leadership teams to choose where AI creates value, build the operating plan, and lead the change required to deliver it.
Led by an enterprise operator Product · Technology · AI · Transformation
RecodeAI / executive practice
Suman Guha
Founder · Enterprise technology leader
OPERATOR LED
The mandate
From scattered pilots to decisions, ownership, and measurable business outcomes.
01 / Work with RecodeAI
Three ways to move from ambition to action.
Start with a defined decision, bring in executive leadership for execution, or work with us across a portfolio.
02 / ONGOING LEADERSHIP
Executive Advisory & Fractional CxO
Senior product, technology, and AI leadership alongside your team, from operating model and architecture to delivery and governance.
For CEOs, founders & leadership teams
03 / INVESTMENT & PORTFOLIO
Board & Investor Advisory
Independent technology and AI judgment for boards, investors, and portfolio companies making consequential decisions.
Diligence · portfolio value creation
Need a leadership team aligned first?
Executive AI workshops and readiness assessments provide a practical starting point.
AI Readiness → Maturity diagnostic →02 / The operating approach
Make the decisions that get AI into production.
Technology matters. So do ownership, economics, process design, security, and the people who run the work after launch.
01 — UNDERSTAND
Find the value
Map business friction, customer needs, and the current AI portfolio.
02 — DECIDE
Choose the bets
Prioritize use cases by value, feasibility, and time to evidence.
03 — DESIGN
Build the system
Set architecture, governance, ownership, and success measures.
04 — DELIVER
Prove the result
Move into production, measure adoption, and adapt the operating model.
A roadmap leadership can fund. An operating plan teams can execute.
03 / Founder-led judgment
Built by someone who has carried the mandate.
Suman Guha has spent more than two decades leading product and technology at scale, across consumer businesses and global enterprises. RecodeAI brings that operating perspective into the boardroom and the work that follows.
Suman's career experience Tata · Reliance / Jio · Tesco · Cisco
The work connects strategic choices with the people, systems, and economics required to make them real.
Read the full background →04 / Where we are going
Advisory today. A repeatable enterprise AI operating layer tomorrow.
Our work with leadership teams will shape reusable methods and tools for governing, deploying, and measuring AI across the enterprise.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Enterprise AI OS
A future product direction informed by recurring needs from real transformation work. We will share more as it takes shape.
05 / Published intelligence
The thinking behind the advice.
Daily AI intelligence, plain-language explainers, frameworks and the weekly MEMO — published continuously and free to read.
Daily Intelligence
What happened, why it matters, and the executive action.
Read the feed →
The Firehouse
Every story, newest first, through a commerce and leadership lens.
Open the firehouse →
Explainers
Plain-language answers to the AI concepts that keep coming up.
Browse explainers →
Frameworks & models
Thinking tools from two decades of building at scale.
See the frameworks →
AI Firehose
What's happening right now
Real-time AI intelligence through a commerce and leadership lens.
LAST UPDATED: OCT 20, 2026 — 06:44 IST
Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation, snubs acquisition
Microsoft: treat AI agents like insider threats
Nvidia ships open models for enterprise + PC agents
Hugging Face: benchmark trust is breaking down
Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller talks Galaxy server scale-up
Retail earnings season looks grim, warns Meredith Whitney
AI chip funding war intensifies vs Nvidia
Enterprises told: audit every agent's data access
Open-weight models now a boardroom cost lever
AI eval scores face credibility reckoning
Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation, snubs acquisition
Microsoft: treat AI agents like insider threats
Nvidia ships open models for enterprise + PC agents
Hugging Face: benchmark trust is breaking down
Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller talks Galaxy server scale-up
Retail earnings season looks grim, warns Meredith Whitney
AI chip funding war intensifies vs Nvidia
Enterprises told: audit every agent's data access
Open-weight models now a boardroom cost lever
AI eval scores face credibility reckoning
🔴 Breaking
Tenstorrent Snubs Buyout, Raises $6.2B
Jim Keller's chip startup turned down acquisition offers and took $1.5B instead. CIOs now have a credible, funded alternative to Nvidia lock-in for compute procurement.
🔴 Breaking
Microsoft Calls Agents Insider Threats
Microsoft is telling enterprises to monitor AI agents like rogue employees, not tools. If you've deployed third-party agents without access controls, you have a governance gap today.
🟡 Notable
Nvidia Pushes Open Models On-Prem
New open models target enterprise data centers and PCs, not just cloud APIs. Nvidia is betting leaders want agent control and privacy over convenience — budget accordingly.
🟡 Notable
Benchmarks Can't Be Trusted Blindly
Hugging Face's policy chief says neutral AI evaluation is harder than labs admit. Procurement teams buying 'best-in-class' models on vendor benchmarks are flying partially blind.
🟢 Interesting
Retailers Brace for Rough Earnings
Meredith Whitney warns rising household costs will hit retail earnings hard this season. Leaders betting AI efficiency gains will offset consumer pullback should stress-test that assumption now.
Start with the decision in front of you