AI Lab Community Meeting: The Token Cliff - Who Gets AI and Who Gets Left Behind
The AI Lab Community Call
A monthly gathering of the CEOs and CxOs shaping how their companies move on AI.
This is a closed-door conversation among peers. No vendors pitching, no consultants performing, no panels designed to impress. Just the people actually making decisions, comparing notes on what's working, what isn't, and what they're wrestling with this month.
Who's in the room
Sitting CEOs, presidents, and C-suite executives leading AI transformation inside their organizations. Most are mid-market operators navigating real constraints: legacy systems, lean teams, board expectations, and a workforce that needs to come along for the ride. Many are members of The AI Lab community; others join by invitation.
What we're talking about this month
In June, Claude usage gets baked into every license. Overnight, broad AI experimentation across an employee base goes from effectively free to cost-prohibitive — and the questions land on the CEO, CFO, and CHRO at the same time:
Who is worth enabling? Not everyone should get unlimited access. How do you decide?
How do you train people to spend tokens efficiently so usage drives business outcomes, not just activity?
How do you make it fair? What happens to the people who haven't started yet — and how do they catch up without being locked out of the next tier of work?
This is a leadership problem disguised as a procurement problem. Get it wrong and you either overspend on people who won't compound the investment, or underspend on the ones who would have been your AI multipliers.
The hardest parts of AI transformation aren't technical. They're organizational. They're cultural. They're about which bet to make next quarter, how to bring a skeptical leadership team along, what to tell the board, and how to tell the difference between a tool that matters and one that's noise.
These are the conversations the call is built for.
What to expect
A focused discussion, guided by an AI Lab advisor and grounded in current research, the latest releases from frontier labs, and in-the-trenches experience. We'll walk through the six-level fluency framework we use with clients — from passive users to agent orchestrators — and what a healthy distribution actually looks like across an org. Real questions from members. Candid answers from people who've made the call before. Chatham House rules.
No slides. No selling. No spectators.