Founder, AI Exponent LLC · AI Strategist · Executive Coach · Speaker
I help leaders make AI real.
I spent fifteen years building AI inside large companies: Nokia, Samsung, American Express and Presight (G42). Today I run AI Exponent LLC. Through AskAjay.ai I advise boards and leadership teams on AI strategy and governance, coach executives, and write about what holds up in production. Through AiExponent.com we build open-source tools that turn EU AI Act duties into evidence a team can check.
Credentials: Forbes Technology Council · IEEE Senior Member · HBR Advisory Council · MIT Technology Review Committee · Stanford LISA mentor · One League Global Mentorship Board
- Measuring AI agents the way you measure a new hire
- Governance that can actually stop a model, not just a policy on paper
- What boards should ask before they fund an AI programme
| 15+ | 12+ | 20+ | 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|---|
| years in AI | organisations advised | keynotes and talks | readers of The Brief |
- Agentic AI Transformation Is Not a Program
- Four AI Rule Deadlines Between Now and January 2027
- Promise Arbitrage: Why Nobody Prices an AI Promise Until Engineering Pays It
- The Evaluation Gap: Why Good Boards Fund Bad AI
- An AI Agent Is a Hire. Measure It Like One.
More at askajay.ai/thinking. Every other Tuesday I send The Brief: one argument, one correction of the week's coverage, one move for Monday.
- How The AI Adoption Rate Is A Clock · Forbes, Sep 2026
- The AI Bubble Won't Burst. It Will Bifurcate. · Forbes, Mar 2026
- Your Resistant Employees Know Why Your AI Adoption Is Failing · Forbes, Feb 2026
- AI 2026: Major Industry and Cultural Shifts (and How to Prepare) · Senior Executive, Jan 2026
My Forbes Technology Council profile has the full list of columns.
Minimum Viable AI Governance (MVG) · The Trust Premium · The PRIME Framework · The Liability Ledger · Agentic AI Readiness (A7)
Free to use, with worksheets, at askajay.ai/tools.
| Project | What it does |
|---|---|
| LitmusAI | Offline CLI that screens an AI system description against the EU AI Act Article 5 prohibited practices |
| RiskForge | Builds an audit-trailed EU AI Act Article 9 risk management file from the command line |
| RAG Benchmarking | Framework-agnostic evaluation harness for RAG and agentic AI systems |
| License Compliance Checker | License and AI model scanner for software dependencies, with SBOM output |
| Agentic Document Analyser | Turns documents into structured JSON for compliance evidence, using vision-language models |
| Advanced RAG Knowledge Engine | RAG and knowledge routing engine with evaluation, guardrails and observability |
| 30 Days with Agents | Free course that takes you from agent basics to advanced patterns in 30 days |
The first five are built and maintained by AiExponent, the product arm of AI Exponent LLC.
- Strategic advisory for boards and C-suites
- Agentic transformation for teams moving agents into real work
- Startup advisory for AI founders building governance in from day one
- Speaking and workshops for conferences and leadership offsites
The quickest way to reach me is askajay.ai/connect.