Your Personal AI Action Plan
Consolidate learning into 90-day commitments
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Executive summary
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Graduation week converts the course into a 90-day plan: Continue (habits to keep), Start (one experiment with owner and date), Stop (one unsafe practice to end).
You will prepare a five-minute peer brief for your function and set a calendar check-in when major model upgrades may require re-evaluation.
Outcome: dated commitments and a peer communication script — literacy that shows up in the calendar, not only in a certificate.
Core concepts
The terms and comparisons you need for this week’s decisions — with examples by function.
Continue / Start / Stop plan
A 90-day commitment page: keep good habits (Continue), start one experiment with owner and date (Start), end one unsafe practice (Stop).
Why this works: Literacy without calendar time fades. Dated commitments create leadership follow-through.
Why it matters: Put owners and dates on one page this week — before the course energy cools.
Example: Continue: verification checklist. Start: one RAG pilot on policies. Stop: free chat for confidential files.
Real Start item
Weak / before: Explore AI more.
Strong / after: Start: pilot FAQ assist on approved HR policies by 15 Oct; owner: HRBP lead; kill if citations fail eval.
By function
Legal
90-day Start: one playbook-assisted pilot with kill criteria and owner.
HR
Peer brief: AI assists drafts, does not hire — Red data list and exception contact.
Purchasing
Stop: multi-year AI deals without eval pack; Start: scorecard on all AI RFPs.
Marketing
Continue claim gates; Start one measured variant pilot.
Finance
Stop consumer AI for board materials; Start approved summarization path.
Operations
Calendar a 90-day production readiness review on current pilots.
Sales
Five-minute peer brief on CRM truth vs generative drafts.
Risk
Continue risk-register hygiene; Start quarterly model-change retest sample.
Peer briefing (five minutes)
A short explanation of AI for colleagues in your function: one risk, one opportunity, data rule, red line, and who to call — not a tech product tour.
Why this works: Literacy spreads through peer conversation faster than memos. Function examples beat lab names.
Why it matters: Schedule one brief this month. Use your Continue/Start/Stop as the close.
Example: HR: AI assists drafts, does not hire. Red data list. One pilot with kill criteria. Exception contact.
Opening line
Weak / before: Let me explain transformers and tokens…
Strong / after: Here’s how AI changes our work this quarter, what we will not automate, and the one experiment I need your support on.
Living literacy
Ongoing judgment practice plus occasional deep dives as tools and frontier models change — not a one-time certificate.
Why this works: Model upgrades can change behavior overnight. Last quarter’s eval may not hold.
Why it matters: When a major model upgrades, re-check one critical workflow on purpose.
Example: Retest contract extract quality after the vendor announces a frontier model upgrade.
Deep dive lesson
~12 min readDeep dive: Turn literacy into a 90-day plan
Learning objective. Leave with dated Continue / Start / Stop commitments and a five-minute peer briefing outline for your function.
Context. Literacy without calendar time fades. This final deep dive is a commitment engine — not another concept dump.
1. Commitments beat certificates
Write Continue (habits to keep), Start (one experiment with owner and date), Stop (one unsafe practice to end). Brief peers in five minutes with function examples and decisions — not a product tour. Re-eval critical workflows when major models upgrade. Stay curious; stay rigorous.
2. The five-minute peer brief
Open with one risk and one opportunity in your function’s language. Share traffic-light data rule and one red line. Offer the norms one-pager. Invite one pilot with kill criteria. End with who to call for exceptions. That is more useful than naming every lab.
Method: Continue / Start / Stop
Continue
Habits that already work (checklist, approved tools).
Start
One experiment: owner, date, metric, kill gate.
Stop
One unsafe practice to end this month (e.g. consumer AI for Amber data).
Calendar
90-day self check-in now — before you close this page.
Worked example: Five-minute peer brief for HR
Situation
You have ten minutes on the HRBP call after this course.
How an executive thinks it through
- Open with one risk and one opportunity in HR language.
- Share traffic-light data rule and screening red line.
- Offer the norms one-pager and invite pilots with kill criteria.
Decision / what to say
Script: (1) AI assists drafts, does not hire. (2) Our Red data list. (3) One pilot we will score in 60 days. (4) Who to call for exceptions.
Apply in your function
All
Write Continue / Start / Stop with owners and dates today.
All
Schedule one peer brief this month using the five-minute structure.
Common mistakes
- Endless learning without changing a meeting or policy.
- Briefings full of lab names with no function example.
- No date on Start / Stop items.
Practice (15 minutes)
- Write Continue / Start / Stop with owners and dates.
- Draft a five-bullet peer brief for your function.
- Put a 90-day self check-in on your calendar now.
Check your understanding
Key takeaways
- Action plans beat passive awareness.
- Continue / Start / Stop is enough structure.
- Peer briefings spread literacy faster than memos alone.
- Learning continues — tools will change; judgment compounds.
Practical applications
Schedule a 90-day check-in with yourself on the plan.
Pick one library deep dive per month after the course.
Apply the vendor scorecard to the next AI proposal.
Launch or refine team AI norms this quarter.
Continue claim gates; Start one measured variant pilot with owner and date; Stop unapproved consumer AI for campaign assets.
Library materials for this week
Extend this week’s decisions with briefs, cases, and primary sources that matter for your next meeting.
90-Day Executive AI Plan Template
A one-page Continue / Start / Stop plan with metrics, owners, and a peer-brief outline for post-course execution.
Five-Minute Peer Brief Script
A short script to explain AI literacy to peers: what it is, where it helps your function, red lines, and how to learn more inside this app.
Optional focus hour
After the core lesson (~40 min), spend about 50 minutes on one long-form source matched to this week’s level.
Stanford AI Index 2026 PDF — re-read the chapter for your function
Stanford HAI
Published 2026 edition
Why this week
Closing week: one credible external fact plus dated Continue / Start / Stop commitments.
What to take away
One Index fact for your peer briefing; owners and dates on your 90-day plan.
Check your understanding
Week 12 · 3 short questions · no grades shared outside this device
Select an answer for each question.
Hands-on
~20 minWrite your 90-day plan
This is how education becomes leadership.
- Continue: two habits to keep.
- Start: one pilot or process improvement with metric and owner (you or delegate).
- Stop: one unsafe or wasteful practice.
- Support needed: one ask for IT, risk, or HR.
- Calendar a 90-day review.
Reflection
- What will you tell a skeptical peer who still treats AI as someone else's job?
- Which week of this course most changed how you will run a meeting next month?