We Taught People to Speak Software
Software stopped requiring translators. The interface changed; the system of record did not.
One idea per spread. One move you can run right away.
Every spread pairs an illustration with a plain-English lesson and an "AI power move"—one concrete decision or workflow boundary a leader can put to work immediately.
1 · The Idea to Keep A visual metaphor and one plain-English sentence worth repeating in the room.
2 · The Executive Question The single question to ask your team before funding—or stopping—a workflow.
3 · The AI Power Move One concrete, bounded step you can run this week and measure end to end.
The Opportunity Expired While We Were Meeting
Measure the hours between information arriving and a decision becoming possible.
"Microsoft Word Is Dangerous"
Familiar risk feels smaller than new risk. Feeling is not measurement.
Shadow AI
Give employees a visible, approved route to useful tools.
Pilot Purgatory
A useful pilot tests a question and leads to a decision.
Give the Agent a Job Description
An agent without written boundaries is not autonomous. It is unsupervised.
Who it's for
- Executives and managers who keep hearing "AI" and want the plain-English version
- Leaders deciding which AI pilots to fund, and which to stop
- Security, IT and compliance teams who want to say "yes, safely" instead of "no"
What you'll be able to do
- Spot where your people still translate intent into keystrokes
- Compare the risk of AI against the risk of how you work today
- Pick one real workflow, run it inside real boundaries, and measure the whole result
Two Editions: Boardroom-Safe vs. Too Hot for Amazon
The future is here. Pick the edition that fits your desk, your CISO's blood pressure, or how honest your next leadership review needs to be.
On Amazon Now · Boardroom Safe
The Boardroom Edition
Live on Amazon Now · Safe to expense. Safe to put on your CEO's, CIO's, or CISO's desk before a roadmap review.
- All 36 Illustrated Spreads (80 Pages) in full color—one plain-English lesson and one concrete AI power move per spread
- Built for Executive Decision Reviews on where employees translate intent into clicks, how to exit pilot purgatory, and how to bound agents
- Available Worldwide via Amazon Prime in Kindle eBook (free on Kindle Unlimited), full-color Paperback, and Hardcover
Off-The-Record Cut · Too Hot for Amazon
The Unhinged Companion
Direct Uncut + Audio Pack · What gets said after the vendor leaves the room: uncut bonus spreads, red-ink notes, and studio audio.
- 10 Uncut Bonus Spreads on real corporate AI disasters ("Three API Calls in a Trench Coat", "Bullet-Point Ping-Pong", "Seven Bots and Two Humans")
- The 36 Red-Stamp "What They Actually Mean" Notes translating polite boardroom copy into blunt operational truth
- Full 37-Track Studio Audiobook (
.m4a+.mp3) & The AI Vendor BS Detector Scorecard
SNEAK PEEK · TOO HOT FOR AMAZON
Sneak Peek: Too Hot for Amazon
Three of the 10 uncut bonus scenarios from the Unhinged Edition—and the blunt red-stamp punchlines every executive secretly recognizes from their own workplace.
Bonus Spread · Vendor Wrapper
"Three API Calls in a Trench Coat"
The vendor pitch deck promised a "proprietary autonomous multi-agent reasoning engine." Under the hood, it's a system prompt, a regex, and three OpenAI API calls duct-taped together at a 900% markup.
Red-Stamp Margin Note "Before signing a six-figure annual contract, ask what survives if the foundation model vendor ships that exact feature natively next Tuesday."
Bonus Spread · Productivity Theatre
"Bullet-Point Ping-Pong"
A manager types 3 rough bullet points and tells AI to "make it a polished 5-paragraph email." Five seconds later, the recipient clicks "summarize this email into 3 bullet points."
Red-Stamp Margin Note "You didn't automate communication—you hired a GPU middleman to inflate and deflate the exact same three sentences while everyone pretends to work."
Bonus Spread · Calendar Absurdity
"Seven Bots and Two Humans"
Nine tiles join the 9:00 AM status Zoom. Seven are AI transcription bots sent by people who double-booked themselves. The two humans spend 30 minutes talking to the bots, generating a summary nobody reads.
Red-Stamp Margin Note "If an AI notetaker bot can attend a meeting in your place and nothing in the business breaks, the meeting shouldn't exist."
1:1 Executive AI Coaching (Zoom) & Leadership Advisory
Bring it to your desk—or your entire leadership team
The future is here. Put a shared plain-English framework on the table before your next AI roadmap, board briefing, or governance review.
Single 1:1 Zoom · 60–90 Min
1:1 Executive Zoom Session
One focused Zoom call with Aksel. Bring a stalled AI pilot, a six-figure vendor pitch, or a workflow question; leave with a clear decision and written boundaries for your team to execute.
Weekly 1:1 · Advisory Only
Weekly Executive AI Advisory
A weekly 1:1 Zoom call as your independent AI sounding board: pressure-test vendor claims, review what your team is proposing, and keep decisions sharp. Strictly executive advisory—your team builds, Aksel advises.
Keynotes & Offsites · 60–90 Min
Team Briefings & Keynotes
Equip your C-suite, board, or leadership offsite with bulk hardcover or paperback copies plus a live 60–90 minute briefing built around the book's spreads.