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The questions to ask your board about AI.

A facilitator's deck of perspective-shifting questions for governance and executive conversations about digital technology and AI. The good ones don't ask about technology — they force a room to reconsider where it stands. Browse them, filter by theme, or run present mode to put one big question on the screen at a time.

01 — Start here

Open with the blunt one.

Most AI conversations drift in the abstract. The fastest way to make one real is to ask for a number — it turns "we should explore AI" into a statement of actual priority, and the answer (or the silence) tells you where the real conversation needs to go.

The icebreaker

"What is your AI budget?"

Blunt on purpose. A strategy with no number behind it is an aspiration, not a plan. Whatever the answer — a figure, a guess, or an awkward pause — you've just learned how seriously this organisation actually takes AI, and you've earned the right to ask everything that follows.

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How to use · 01

Pick three to five questions, not twenty. The aim is depth and discomfort, not coverage.

How to use · 02

Use present mode to put one question on the screen and let the room sit with it before anyone answers.

How to use · 03

Make people commit — a number, a position on a wall, a written answer. The commitment is the point.

02 — The questions

The questions

Grouped by the shift each one creates. Filter to a theme, or hit "Present" on any card to open it full-screen for the room. Nothing here is saved.

03 — Go deeper

Good questions start the conversation.

A list of sharp questions is the easy part. The work is facilitating the room through the answers — surfacing where leadership actually disagrees, translating discomfort into decisions, and turning a single budget number into a governance approach the board can stand behind. That's what our facilitated AI strategy sessions are for.

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