Friday, September 26, 2025
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Hi, it’s Chad. Every Friday, I serve as your AI guide to help you navigate a rapidly evolving landscape, discern signals from noise and transform cutting-edge insights into practical leadership wisdom. Here’s what you need to know:
1. Sound Waves: Podcast Highlights
This week’s episode features Sammy Greenwall, Co-founder and CEO of Henry.ai and Stanford-educated serial founder. We dive into why every CEO should understand AI-native organizational design – and how his company became the fastest-growing AI native prop tech company by rethinking operations from day one, not just layering AI onto existing processes.
Plus, my first solo episode drops Monday. (More on that below!)
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2. Algorithmic Musings. AI for the C Suite with Chad Harvey Gets an Upgrade: More Insights, Enhanced Format
Psssst! Hey! You! I’ve got some exciting news to share with you about AI for the C Suite with Chad Harvey.
Today I’m breaking format to share some exciting news about the podcast – and I think you’re going to love what’s coming.
What’s Changing?
Beginning this Monday, September 29, 2025, we’re shifting to weekly episodes – but with a twist that I believe will serve you better.
We’ll continue publishing our in-depth interviews with AI thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and visionaries twice monthly. These deep-dive conversations aren’t going anywhere because I know how valuable they’ve been for understanding the bigger picture of AI’s impact on business and leadership.
But here’s what’s new: you’ll now also hear from me directly in solo, mini-episodes where I unpack, examine, and explain my thoughts about AI and its intersection with technology, leadership, business, and humanity.
Why the Change?
You’re busy. I get it. The AI landscape shifts faster than most of us can keep up with, and sometimes you need insights you can digest quickly between meetings or during your commute.
These new solo episodes will be shorter and more focused – typically 10 to 15 minutes – designed specifically to help you navigate the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence. Think of them as your AI compass for the week ahead.
What’s Up First?
Our inaugural solo episode tackles a question someone posed to me on LinkedIn: “Which AI tool has proved most effective for leadership development?” It’s a fascinating question that gets to the heart of how AI can enhance – rather than replace – human leadership capabilities.
Moving Forward Together
Thank you to everyone who’s joined me on this AI journey so far. Your engagement, questions, and feedback have shaped not only our show but also my own thinking about AI’s role in business.
I’m excited about this evolution and what it means for our conversations moving forward. Have questions you’d like me to tackle in upcoming solo episodes? Want to suggest topics for future deep-dive interviews?
Drop me a line. I’d love to hear what’s on your mind as we navigate this AI-powered future together.
3. Research Roundup: What the Data Tells Us
Paper2Agent: Turning Research Papers Into Your Personal R&D Team
Academic researchers just came up with a novel solution to a question that middle market organizations often bypass entirely: How do you actually use cutting-edge research when your team doesn’t have PhDs?
The numbers that matter: Stanford’s Paper2Agent framework converted complex research papers into interactive AI tools with 100% accuracy across three case studies. The system generated 22 working tools in just 3 hours on a standard laptop – work that typically takes technical teams weeks or months to implement.
Translation for executives: Your marketing manager can now ask an AI agent, ‘Apply this breakthrough customer segmentation research to our client database’ – and get the same results Stanford researchers achieved, without hiring a data science team.
The catch: This is still early-stage technology, and you’ll need to pilot carefully with well-defined use cases. Not every research paper will be convertible, and you’ll still need someone who understands your business context to ask the right questions.
Action item: Identify one research-intensive process in your organization where accessing cutting-edge methods could provide competitive advantage. Academic partnerships just became a lot more valuable when the research actually becomes usable.
Bottom line: The gap between academic breakthroughs and practical business application just collapsed. Companies that build relationships with research institutions now have a massive implementation advantage.
Read our full analysis of this and all other analyzed research papers at AI for the C Suite.
4. Radar Hits: What’s Worth Your Attention
OpenAI’s next ChatGPT features will cost significantly more. Sam Altman teased new “compute-intensive” capabilities coming in the next few weeks that will cost more to run and initially be limited to Pro subscribers ($200/month vs $20/month for Plus). Translation: AI costs are going up, not down for cutting edge abilities. If you’re budgeting for OpenAI’s enterprise tools in 2026, plan for current or increased pricing because the usual tech deflation curve likely won’t apply here.
Pew Research shows 50% of Americans are more concerned than excited about AI. Even more telling: 53% think AI will worsen creativity and 50% believe it will hurt meaningful relationships. Your change management strategy needs to account for widespread employee skepticism – this isn’t just a training problem, it’s a trust problem.
Sam Altman wants to build a gigawatt of AI infrastructure every week. (Yes, you read that right.) OpenAI’s vision is industrial-scale AI manufacturing. Companies that assume gradual adoption curves are going to get blindsided by the acceleration.
5. Elevate Your Leadership with AI for the C Suite
Ready to transform your organization’s AI strategy from reactive to strategic? I’m now booking 1Q 2026 engagements with a select number of middle market executives to develop comprehensive AI implementation roadmaps.
If you’re tired of wondering whether you’re missing opportunities or making costly mistakes with AI, let’s talk. (Shameless plug: I promise you’ll leave our conversation with at least three specific actions you can take Monday morning.) Simply hit “reply” to this email and let’s talk.
As always, if this newsletter helped clarify something about AI’s impact on your business, forward it to a fellow executive who’s wrestling with the same questions.
Until next week, keep pushing boundaries.
Chad