Real talk about AI adoption from the people in the middle of it.

Small-group sessions for product and engineering leaders navigating AI adoption in the PDLC. No vendors. No pitches. No consultants selling from the stage. Just the problems you're actually facing, discussed with peers who understand the stakes.

Weekly peer roundtables. Held midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday) at midday US Eastern. Sign up and I'll send the next available date.

Most AI conversations inside companies are happening in fragments: one team, one leader, one experiment at a time. The roundtables are built to break that isolation and let leaders compare what is actually working before they commit more time, money, or credibility.

How they work

Curated cohort

6-10 product and engineering leaders per session. A diverse group of peers from mid-market to enterprise companies, so the conversation reflects more than one operating reality.

Operator-level conversation

Each session focuses on a specific challenge: prioritization, team enablement, measuring AI ROI, board communication. Topics come from participants, not a content calendar.

Off-the-record by design

No recordings. No recap emails to a marketing list. OLO facilitates. We don't sell from the room.

Who joins

Product and engineering leaders at mid-market B2B SaaS companies who own some or all of the product development lifecycle. You're past the "should we use AI?" conversation and into the harder questions about how to make it work across teams. Sessions occasionally include peers from larger enterprises facing the same problems.

CTO VP Engineering VP Product Head of Engineering Head of Product CPO

Typical topics

How to prioritize AI investments when everything feels urgent
Getting engineers to adopt AI tooling without mandating it
Measuring AI ROI when the gains are hard to isolate
Managing board and exec expectations around AI timelines
Balancing AI experimentation with shipping commitments
Building AI governance without killing momentum

What gets said in the room

Anonymized excerpts from recent sessions. Names and companies removed; substance preserved.

"Ambition exceeds capacity. Expectations exceed reality."
VP PRODUCT, MID-MARKET B2B SAAS
"The real bottleneck is not the developers anymore. It's how fast product managers can do the research and write the requirements."
CTO, MID-MARKET SAAS
"Code moves faster, but QA, integration, architecture, and getting to shippable are still the constraints."
VP ENGINEERING, GROWTH-STAGE SAAS
"I'm now shipping production code as a product manager. That's a seismic shift."
SENIOR PM, B2B SAAS
"The more effort they put into it, they believe the more likely they are to lose their job."
VP ENGINEERING, MID-MARKET SAAS
"There's no point in having a roadmap past three months anymore. Too much will change."
VP PRODUCT, AI-NATIVE SAAS

Request an invitation

These are curated sessions. I read every request and only invite leaders who are a fit for the room. Include your LinkedIn so I can do that quickly. If we're a match, I'll send you the next available session. Most weeks have a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday slot.