AI Leadership Roundtable: The 7-Tech-Layer AI Operating System: How to Architect a Company That Runs on AI
Most teams bolt AI onto a workflow and call it transformation.
Trisha Gulati has a different model. As CEO and Cofounder of MergeWorks, she's built an operating system where AI isn't a feature sitting on top of the business — it's the architecture underneath it. Seven distinct layers, each doing a specific job, stacked so the whole thing compounds.
In this session she'll walk through that stack end to end: what sits at each layer, why the order matters, where most teams stall out, and what it actually took to get it running inside a live M&A and growth operation.
Then you'll build your own. The last stretch of the session is hands-on — you'll map your team, product, or startup onto the seven layers and leave with a diagram of where you're strong, where you're exposed, and what the next layer up looks like for you.
You'll leave with:
The full seven-layer framework, and the reasoning behind the sequence
A read on which layer is actually your bottleneck (it's usually not the one you think)
Your own stack, mapped — not a template, your version
The failure modes Trisha has watched teams hit at each layer, and how to route around them