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Clint Sookermany

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Clint Sookermany

Founder, The AI Value Institute. Advisor to international and global business within financial services, retail and technology.

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Society, your business, and you. AI changes each of them. We write about what actually works, so each one can benefit.

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  • The ShiftWhat AI is doing to the labour force, the market, and society, and what that asks of you.
  • The Operating ModelHow AI changes the way your business runs, and how to capture real value from it.
  • The Executive EdgeHow to use AI to be a sharper leader. The skills, habits and judgement that matter now.

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Issue № 001 · The Shift

The Value
Shift.

9 min read · April 2026

Why your AI strategy is stuck in the wrong century.

Most enterprises are running a 21st-century technology on a 20th-century value model. We're still pricing AI like software, staffing it like IT, and measuring it like a cost centre. The result: tens of millions spent, almost nothing compounding.

This essay is the frame the rest of the newsletter hangs on. If you read one piece, read this one.

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Friday letterFri, Apr 17Members

The Shift, the Operating Model, and the Executive Edge (Week 16).

This week’s macro move pulled through finance and into the leader’s calendar. The three-altitude read for members: what to notice, what to rebuild, and the one decision to take into Monday.

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Tuesday letterTue, Apr 7

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A reframe of a 15-year-old Andreessen thesis. The mechanics of software value have flipped, and most incumbents have not noticed yet. What it means for your next platform decision.

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Friday letterFri, Apr 10Members

The Shift, the Operating Model, and the Executive Edge (Week 15).

Why the AI Centre of Excellence is quietly failing at most enterprises, the better operating pattern, and the three diagnostic questions I ask every executive I advise.

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Clint Sookermany

About the author

Clint Sookermany.

Clint is the founder of The AI Value Institute. He spent two decades as a consulting partner at PA Consulting, PwC and KPMG, where he built and scaled the digital & AI practice from 27 people to 250, embedding what was then considered best practice into the way global and international clients actually operated.

He writes this newsletter because the field is full of demos and short on operators. Most of what gets published about enterprise AI is written by people who have never sat in the room when the budget gets cut, the sponsor changes, or the board asks what the return actually is. Clint has, repeatedly.

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Digital & AI practice · 27 → 250

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