AI Clarity for Ambitious Leadership Teams
AI isn’t a technology problem.
It’s a clarity problem.
I partner with CEOs and their leadership teams to turn ambient awareness of AI into an operational reality.
Noise & Signal
Are you reacting to the noise, or executing a strategy?
Most leadership teams are operating in a haze of AI signals, lacking the clarity to act with confidence. You are constantly exposed to the noise.
The information is everywhere. But fragmented, inconsistent, and hard to trust. So you don’t have a clear sense of what’s real, what matters, or what to do next.
The Noise
- 01Vendor Pitches
- 02Internal Anecdotes
- 03Podcasts
- 04Product Demos
- 05New Delivery Models
The Organizational Gap
The gap isn’t the model intelligence. It’s your organizational design.
AI is improving on a nearly vertical curve. That part isn’t up to you. What stands between your business and that curve is structural friction — the internal drag keeping your organization from being carried forward.
Think of it as an efficiency tax. Every point of friction is a tax you pay, quarter after quarter. It is exactly what keeps the curve from compounding in your favor. In my experience, AI stalls inside most companies for three structural reasons.
Drag the timeline. The longer you wait, the wider the gap.
Clearing it comes down to three shifts.
The Three Shifts
Social Contract
Define a new social contract.
The Barrier
Leaders and employees don’t share a clear understanding of how AI changes roles, incentives, and expectations. This misalignment shows up quietly. In hesitation, skepticism, or superficial adoption.
The Shift
If people don’t understand how AI impacts them, they will resist it. I’ll guide you through rewriting the social contract with your employees, clarifying expectations, tradeoffs, and what “good” looks like in a company that embraces AI.
Fluency
Invest in human + AI fluency.
The Barrier
Licenses get bought and “cool experiments” abound, but the fundamental architecture of how work gets done remains exactly the same.
The Shift
True fluency lives at the intersection of human and machine capability. I help your team see how work itself has to change, rethinking the structures, workflows, and operating rhythms that govern a hybrid workforce of humans and autonomous agents.
Computability
Make your business computable.
The Barrier
Data is everywhere, but your business still isn’t computable. The objects and rules of your operations aren’t defined cleanly enough for autonomous agents to navigate them. AI that can’t reliably interpret your world is useless AI.
The Shift
I help you see what computability requires — clear definitions, consistent workflows, and where to start. The more computable your business, the more of the curve you capture.
Scattered signals. Drag to make the business computable.
Clear the friction and the returns compound — not because you built the compounding.
The curve was always going to compound.
You simply stop paying the tax that kept you from it. And every quarter you wait, the gap between the companies that cleared their friction and the ones still paying it widens.
Who I Am
I’m Tyler Scriven.
I've spent my career designing powerful company cultures and operating at the messy intersection of innovation and real problems inside real organizations — large and small, as an operator, a CEO, a board director, and an investor. Now I'm fortunate to do it as an advisor to CEOs and leadership teams trying to make sense of the moment we find ourselves in.
I was employee #75 at Palantir, where I spent six years as Chief of Staff to the President & CTO — focused on how frontier technology actually gets adopted inside real organizations.
As Founder of Hazy Lane Advisors, I partner with CEOs and their leadership teams to bring operator-level clarity to what AI really means for their business. I act as a Forward Deployed Executive — working alongside you to cut through the noise, build internal capability, and execute a strategy that actually scales.
Offerings
One path, in sequence.
Engagement ramps from a single candid conversation to a focused diagnostic to ongoing, Forward Deployed partnership—each step earning the next.
Step One
Discovery Conversation
45 minutes
A candid, high-signal session focused on your current state, constraints, and opportunities. You’ll leave with:
- A clearer articulation of where you are
- Perspective on where AI could matter
- A point of view on what the next step should be
Step Two · The Core
AI Diagnostic
60 days
A focused engagement to establish clarity and direction. This is the core of the work. Deliverables include:
- A clear AI agenda tied to business priorities
- Identified high-leverage use cases
- An honest assessment of the gaps across your social contract, operating model, and business computability
- A practical path to execution
Step Three
Retained Advisory
Ongoing
For teams ready to move, I stay close to the CEO and leadership team in a Forward Deployed Executive capacity—pressure-testing decisions and keeping the work honest as it moves. You get:
- A senior counterpart on call for the decisions that matter
- A standing rhythm that holds momentum between board meetings
- Capability built inside your team, not dependency on me
The Widening Gap
The gap is already widening.
Computabilitycompounds.
In AI, doing nothing is still a decision. The companies that win won’t have better tools. They’ll have leadership teams who act with clarity. And follow through.