We want to leverage AI to help us clean up and categorize our weekly short-term Issues List before our Level 10 Meeting™ starts, but we do not want to pre-solve the issues or lose our organic IDS® debate. How do we use AI as an objective meeting preparation tool?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Integrating artificial intelligence into your weekly preparation can save valuable time, but you must draw a hard line to protect your live, organic IDS® debate. The goal of using AI before your Level 10 Meeting™ is not to pre-solve the issues or generate automated solutions. Instead, AI should act as an objective assistant that organizes the noise so your human leadership team can focus on the real work of solving the root causes.

To do this effectively, use an AI tool solely to categorize and clean up your short-term Issues List twenty-four hours before the meeting.

- First, have the AI scan your raw list of issues and group them by department or related V/TO® goals, exposing any redundancies where multiple leaders logged the same problem.
- Second, program the AI to flag issues that lack a clear owner or lack a defined metric, prompting the team to clarify their inputs before the pulse begins.
- Third, use the AI to identify which issues have appeared on the list for multiple consecutive weeks, highlighting them as chronic bottlenecks that must be prioritized for immediate IDS®.

By limiting the AI's role to organization and diagnostics, you keep the actual problem-solving, debate, and decision-making entirely human. This approach keeps your leadership team highly accountable and prevents the intellectual laziness that occurs when teams rely on artificial intelligence to do their strategic thinking.