A 30-minute conversation with business leaders about how AI is changing their role, their team and their industry. This is not a sales call.
We are not selling anything on this call. We are listening. Across India, leaders are being told AI will transform their business — but very few people are asking them what is actually happening inside their teams, what is hard, and what they wish someone had warned them about.
That is the entire purpose of this initiative: to collect honest, first-hand leadership perspective on AI adoption — and publish it.
Senior leaders get “free consultation” requests every week that turn into a pitch by minute eight. This one is different, and here is exactly how.
Five areas, roughly six minutes each. You can skip any of them, and you decide how much detail to go into.
What has actually changed in your own day-to-day work in the last year — and what has not changed at all, despite the noise.
“What part of your job did you expect AI to change, that it hasn’t?”Where your industry or function is heading, which roles you think will change first, and what you are hearing from peers.
“In your sector, who gets affected first — and is anyone preparing them?”If your organisation started implementing AI seriously next quarter, what would break first — people, process, data, budget or governance?
“What would go wrong in the first 60 days?”What you have tried yourself, what genuinely worked, what was disappointing, and what you quietly stopped using.
“What did you try that didn’t live up to the promise?”The work that still consumes your team’s time and attention — the problems you would most want solved over the next two years.
“What is still painful, that nobody has solved for you yet?”If there is a view about AI in Indian business you think is under-discussed, this is the place to say it. Some of the best material in the report comes from here.
“What is everyone getting wrong about this?”You are giving us 30 minutes of senior time. This is what comes back.
You are listed as a contributing member of the AI Workflow India Corporate AI Advisory Board, with your name, designation and organisation on this page — only if you want to be listed.
Your perspective is included in our year-end AI Adoption Insights Report. Contributors who opt in are quoted by name; everyone else is included anonymously.
Contributors receive the full report before public release — including what leaders in other sectors said about the same five questions.
During the conversation we share what other leaders have told us about the challenges you raise. Not advice — just what your peers are actually seeing.
Four steps. Total commitment from you: 30 minutes on the call, plus a few minutes to approve your quotes later.
Share your name, designation, organisation and sector. We confirm whether your perspective fits a current research area and send you a time slot.
Before we speak, you tell us how you want your input handled — private and anonymous, named and quoted, or recorded as a full conversation. Details in the next section. The default is the most private option.
Online, at a time you choose, in Hindi or English. We work through the five topics. You talk, we listen and ask follow-up questions. No slides, no demo, no pitch.
Anything attributed to you is sent to you for approval before it appears anywhere. You can edit it, restrict it to anonymous, or withdraw it completely — no reason needed.
You choose one of three levels before the conversation begins. You can move to a more private level at any time afterwards — including after publication.
If you lead a function or a business and have a view on how AI is really landing inside organisations, we would like to hear it — and put it on record.
Every function sees AI adoption from a different angle. We are deliberately collecting all of them — including the sceptical ones.
Where you see AI actually affecting the business — and where you think the hype has run ahead of reality.
What happens to people, roles and skills — and why organisation-wide upskilling is harder than it looks on paper.
Tool sprawl, shadow AI usage, integration reality, and what your team gets asked for versus what it can support.
Which workflows are genuinely automatable, which are not, and what breaks when you try to change them.
The exposure nobody is discussing, and the governance questions that arrive after the tools are already in use.
What this actually costs, what returned, and how you would even measure whether it was worth it.
Every conversation feeds one publication, released once a year.
Published by AI Workflow India as our own annual publication and shared free with every contributor before public release.
What leaders ask us before agreeing to a conversation.
Correct. We do not pitch, quote or propose anything during the 30 minutes, and we do not send a proposal afterwards. AI Workflow India does sell training and consulting — but not through this initiative, and not to people who joined this conversation. If you later want to discuss our services, you have to raise it yourself, on a separate call.
Three things, and we would rather state them plainly than pretend this is charity. First, honest leadership perspective that shapes our research and how we design programmes. Second, a credible annual publication. Third, relationships with leaders who may — eventually, on their own terms — think of us. None of that requires pitching you now, and pitching you would destroy all three.
No. “Advisory Board” here means a recognised group of contributors to this research initiative. There is no equity, no directorship, no fiduciary duty, no fees paid in either direction, and no legal position on any company’s board. It is recognition for contributing your perspective, nothing more.
Only if you choose that option. The default is private and anonymous — your input appears described by role and sector, never by name. If you opt to be named, every quote is sent to you for approval before it is published anywhere.
Not unless you explicitly ask for it. By default we take written notes only. If you are comfortable with a recorded, podcast-style conversation that may be published as audio or video, we will set that up separately with written consent — and you approve the final edit before anything is released.
You can withdraw it. Anything attributed to you is approved by you first, and you can pull or edit it at any point — including after publication — without giving a reason. We would rather lose a quote than a contributor’s trust.
No preparation needed. We send the five topics in advance so nothing catches you off guard, but the conversation works best when it is unrehearsed. You do not need data, slides or numbers — we want your judgement, not your dashboards.
No. We do not ask for financials, customer data, employee data, contracts or anything commercially sensitive. If a question moves towards something you cannot discuss, say so and we move on. We can also sign your organisation’s NDA before the conversation if your policy requires it.
Yes, and it is often more useful. HR, IT and Operations in the same organisation frequently describe the same AI rollout completely differently, and that contrast is valuable material. We speak to each person separately so answers are not influenced by the others in the room.
The AI Adoption Insights Report is our own annual publication, released on the AI Workflow India website and shared directly with every contributor before public release. It is not a third-party magazine and we do not claim external editorial endorsement. If industry media pick up sections of it, named contributors are informed first.
Yes. Hindi, English, or a mix — whichever lets you speak most naturally. The report is published in English, and any quote translated from Hindi is sent to you in both languages for approval.
We look for a spread across functions, sectors and organisation sizes rather than volume — ten thoughtful conversations across different industries are worth more than a hundred from the same sector. If your perspective fills a gap in the current research, we will confirm a slot. If we already have depth in your area, we will say so honestly and keep you on the list for the next cycle.
Most AI conversations in India are happening between vendors. This one is between leaders. Thirty minutes, no pitch, and your view goes into the record.
Happy to answer questions before you commit to a slot. Reach us on any channel below.
Looking for AI training, corporate workshops or implementation support instead? That is a completely separate conversation and has nothing to do with this initiative — you can see our AI training and consulting services here.