I’m Bandar Alsharfi. I help business leaders turn strategic priorities into AI capabilities that improve decisions, create measurable value, and change how work gets done.
My perspective combines over 25 years building and deploying software in highly regulated environments, hands-on AI design and operations since 2014, and business ownership and board responsibility.
Work through the decisions that matter
For business-function leaders and their finance, technology, people and governance partners. Choose a keynote, an executive roundtable or a working session around a decision your team needs to make.
Business priorities and useful capabilities
Map the decisions your function supports, the evidence people need, and where AI could make a useful difference. Connect opportunities to a baseline, an experiment and accountable owners.
AI economics and architecture
Bring business, finance and technology together around cost per successful outcome. Examine consumption, model selection, retrieval, caching and the controls needed as demand grows.
Governance and accountability
Make authority, accepted trade-offs, monitoring and reversal triggers explicit. Give leadership a decision record it can use and challenge.
Adoption and ways of working
Connect workflow changes, role-specific skills and manager responsibilities to evidence of changed behaviour and business outcomes.
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Who Approved This?
Enterprise AI Governance and the Decisions Nobody Owns
My flagship book examines who approves AI, what they accept, and how the organization responds when reality changes. Its 24 chapters include 143 practical Field Kit tools spanning decision rights, board oversight, model and data risk, vendors, operations and economics.
Published across Amazon stores worldwide. Explore the flagship and thirteen other books on buying AI, economics, agents and professional judgment.
Latest writing
Essays and working arguments on AI, organizations, decisions and the people responsible for them.
- Nobody Wants You to StopSpotting the boy who nodded and didn’t understand was never the hard part. Stopping for him spends the other twenty-nine. He’s also the one in the room who least wants you to.
- The Word You Use Instead of WorriedWorried is about you, and it invites a reasonable person to manage you rather than the patient. Concerned is a position. Somebody at the other end of the phone now has to answer it.
- Everything You DisturbedA machine will confirm the torque, the part number and the test result better than you can. It can’t tell anyone whether there’s a lamp still lying in the bay, because nothing anywhere has a record of that.
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Experience behind the work
I am a cofounder and board member of ntam Group, whose operating businesses employ more than 500 people across the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
I hold a BSc in Computer Information Systems, an Executive MBA and an MSc in AI Engineering, have completed specialized AI certification programmes at MIT and the University of Oxford, and am a doctoral candidate.
