Beyond the Hype:
AI Roundtable for Decision Makers
16-weeks of honest, facilitated conversation with senior technology leaders who are making the same bets you are. No consultants. No slide decks. No one selling you a platform. Just a room full of people with the same problem as you facilitated by someone who has been building AI tools for >2 years.
# This Isn't Another AI Consult
# This Isn't Another AI Consult
You could hire a consultancy. They'd send a team, run some workshops, hand you a strategy deck, and leave. Six months later you'd be back where you started, because the deck didn't come with judgment.
This is the opposite. Beyond the Hype puts you in a room with 8-12 senior technology leaders who are facing the same decisions you are. Each session focuses on one area. You come prepared with what you've tried, what's failed, and what you're still figuring out. Andrew facilitates the conversation and does targeted research between sessions based on what surfaces from the group.
The insight doesn't come from a deliverable. It comes from the room. And over 16 weeks, you build the thinking and the network to keep making these calls long after the programme ends. No consultancy gives you that.
# What You Actually Get
# What You Actually Get
A room you can't hire
Consultants tell you what they think. A room full of peers who are making the same bets tells you what's actually happening. You can't buy that perspective. You have to be in it.
Research that follows your problems
Between sessions, Andrew researches what came up in your conversations. Not a generic reading list, the programme adapts to the room, not the other way around.
A network that outlasts the programme
8-12 senior leaders spending 16 weeks in honest conversation builds trust you can't shortcut. You leave with people you can call when the next hard decision lands. That's worth more than any strategy deck.
# The Roundtable Topics
# The Roundtable Topics
Strip away the marketing. What's production-ready, what's a demo, and what's vapourware? A consultancy will sell you their version. Your peers will tell you what they've actually seen.
Most organisations are doing AI theatre: visible activity with no strategic intent. The consultants helped build the theatre. This session is about recognising it in your own org and replacing it with something real.
The org chart you have was designed for a world without AI. What changes? A consultancy will hand you a reorg plan. This room helps you think through what actually works when you're the one doing the restructuring.
When do you build AI capabilities in-house, when do you buy, and when do you plug something into what you've got? Every vendor has an answer. Your peers have experience. There's a difference.
AI is only as good as what you feed it, and most organisations aren't close to ready. Consultants scope a data readiness programme that takes three years. This conversation is about what you can do now.
IP leakage, hallucinations in production, regulatory exposure. The risks are real and most frameworks for managing them were written by people who've never shipped anything. What's actually working in practice?
You understand AI. They understand budget. Somewhere in the middle is a conversation about investment, risk appetite, and timeline that most organisations are having badly (often with a consultant mediating who doesn't understand either side).
# Program Details
# Program Details
| Start date | Expressions of interest now open. We'll be in touch when the next cohort launches. |
| Duration | 16 weeks |
| Format | Live fortnightly roundtables + periodic in-person sessions in Melbourne |
| Sessions | 8 roundtables, one every two weeks |
| Size | 8-12 senior technology leaders |
| Recordings | None. Conversations are confidential and live-only |
| Timezone | 🇦🇺 Melbourne |
| Investment | $3,500 AUD |
# How it Works
# How it Works
1
Register your interest
Register your interest
Fill in the form. Tell us about your role, your organisation, and what you're wrestling with. This isn't open enrolment; we curate the room carefully, because the room is the product.
2
Get matched to a cohort
Get matched to a cohort
We'll have a conversation to make sure it's the right fit - for you and the group. A consultancy takes anyone who'll pay. We don't. The value depends on who's sitting at the table.
3
Show up prepared
Show up prepared
Each session has a topic. Before you arrive, you think about it in the context of your own organisation. What's working, what's not, what you've tried. The prep is what makes the conversation useful, not a facilitator's slides.
4
Take it back to your org
Take it back to your org
Every session should change how you think about something specific. You leave with clarity you can act on immediately, and a group of peers you can call when you need a second opinion. No follow-up engagement required.
# Meet Andrew Murphy
# Meet Andrew Murphy
Engineering Leader & Educator
Andrew spent 20+ years in tech, starting as a developer and working his way to CTO. Along the way he discovered that being great at code doesn't make you great at leading people, and nobody tells you that when they promote you.
Now he runs workshops for tech leaders, teaching the communication, trust-building and strategic thinking skills he had to learn through trial and error (heavy on the error side!).