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• Put the pilot's stop date in the meeting that approves it

  Name the calendar day an AI pilot stops in the same meeting that approves it, including the shutdown default and the person who keeps the date.

• Stopping an AI pilot without the politics

  How to close an underperforming AI pilot on evidence, protect the people who ran it, and keep the stop from becoming a political event.

• What belongs in the one-page AI status memo

  A practical template for the standing executive AI update: what to include, what to leave out, and how to keep one page decision-ready.

• ROI theater: how to tell a demo metric from an operating metric

  How executives can separate persuasive pilot numbers from metrics that survive real operations, queues, and budget decisions.

• Diligence questions executives should ask AI vendors before the pilot

  The questions to settle before an AI pilot starts: ownership, data terms, evaluation, support, pricing at scale, and exit mechanics.

• What boards should know about bias audits before they need one

  A guest post from the FairGap team on the questions a board should be asking about algorithmic bias audits, written for the executives Stator AI typically briefs.

• Three model risk questions every board should be asking

  The three questions about AI model risk that boards should be asking management about every quarter, with what good answers look like and what unacceptable answers sound like.

• What executive AI literacy actually means in 2026

  What boards and senior operators actually need to understand about AI in 2026, separated from the consumer-facing hype and the deep technical detail neither group needs.