From AI Idea to Commercial Impact

In this 60-minute session, Jason Hauer (Founder and CEO, HauerX) and Rehgan Bleile (Co-Founder and CEO, AlignAI) break down how leaders move the right AI initiatives through enterprise approval faster and measure value from the start. If you’re deciding what to fund in 2027, bring one real initiative and work it through as you watch.What you’ll learn:

• Why the gap isn’t adoption: only 6% of companies qualify as AI high performers (McKinsey, 2026), and just 14% of CEOs define P&L impact for every AI initiative (BCG, 2026)
• Where initiatives lose time as they move between commercial, data, AI, technology, risk, and operations teams
• Why pilot cost isn’t initiative cost, and why hours saved aren’t dollars saved
• Scope, Score, Approve, Prove: a four-stage framework for getting from idea to proven value
• A full walkthrough of one use case, next best action for customer retention
• How missing context quietly adds cost through slower decisions, rework, and unplanned run costs
• Results from two anonymized AlignAI customers, including a top-10 U.S. bank that cut time to approval from 9 months to 3

Your takeaway: the AI Initiative Launch Readiness Scorecard. Score one initiative red, yellow, or green across eight areas. Your earliest red is your next move.

Research cited: McKinsey (Aug 2026), BCG (Jul 2026), PwC (Apr 2026), EY-Parthenon (2026), IDC with Lenovo (2025), Gartner (Jun 2025). Customer results are anonymized and used with permission.