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Where is AI creating competitive advantage in our sector now?
Understand the shifts that matter and what they mean for your business.
Know where AI creates advantage. Decide what happens next.
Friyay helps boards understand what AI means for their business, examine their exposure, and make clear strategic choices.
We bring specific competitive examples and practical business implications into a facilitated conversation that ends with a decision, agreed priorities, or a clear mandate.
Also available: one-on-one director coaching and board AI training workshops.
THE BOARD’S AI AGENDA
AdvantageWhere can we lead?01
ExposureWhat needs our attention?02
DecisionsWhat happens next?03
A decision, agreed priorities,
or a clear mandate.
Put the right questions on the table.
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Where are we exposed?
Examine AI-related risks, strategic blind spots, and assumptions that need challenging.
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What do we need to decide?
Identify the choices that need the board’s attention today and in the next quarter.
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What could our business become?
Explore how AI could change the value you create, the work your people do, and the way you serve customers.
From vaguely informed to usefully engaged.
A useful board conversation starts with specifics. We bring examples of where AI is changing competition and connect them to your organisation’s strategy.
Together, we examine the opportunities, challenge assumptions, and prioritise what deserves action.
Ground the conversation
Make sense of the macro trends through their implications for your sector and business.
01 / 0401Ground
Ground the conversation
Make sense of the macro trends through their implications for your sector and business.
02Examine
Examine the choices
Explore where AI could create enterprise value, where your strategy has blind spots, and what needs to change.
03Prioritise
Set the priorities
Identify practical opportunities for the next 12 months. Look for the smallest starting points with the greatest potential impact.
04Mandate
Leave with a mandate
Agree what should happen next and what the board needs from management to move forward.
Firsthand experience changes the conversation.
There is a “discovering fire” moment when a director uses AI on something that matters to them and sees its potential firsthand.
That experience gives them a stronger basis for questioning assumptions, assessing opportunities, and challenging management’s thinking.
Firsthand
experience
experience
Practical
understanding
understanding
Stronger board
judgment
judgment
One-on-one AI coaching
Individual sessions built around a director’s questions and work. Develop practical understanding through using AI, testing its capabilities, and recognising its limitations.
Discuss coachingBoard AI training workshops
Hands-on learning that gives directors a shared foundation for discussing AI and its implications for the business.
Discuss a workshopBoth services can be booked independently or used to prepare directors for a board working session.
Shaped by the questions directors actually ask.
Gareth Rydon, Friyay co-founder, coaches directors of Australian ASX 200 companies one-on-one.
That experience shapes these sessions: the questions we explore, the examples we bring, and the emphasis on making AI specific to the business.
What does your board need to work through?
Tell us what is on the agenda and what you want the board to leave able to decide or do.