You may have an AI strategy.
But your AI transformation is already happening from the ground up.
The roundtable
A closed room for senior leaders navigating this, with ground-level intelligence from inside organisations doing the same.
Eight to twelve CEOs, COOs and MDs. Chatham House rules. No slides. Half a day. 10X works inside hundreds of management and leadership teams simultaneously. We bring what we are actually seeing from inside the organisations navigating this right now.
8 to 12
leaders
Closed
Chatham House
Curated
not scheduled
The question this room is built around
“Your AI transformation is already in motion. The question is not whether to adopt AI. It is how to channel what is already moving in your organisation before it moves further in a direction you did not design.”
Where is the AI adoption in your organisation actually concentrated, and who is it serving?
How do you channel the energy and productivity gains without killing the motivation driving them?
What does governance look like when it needs to guide something already moving faster than it can govern?
You bring what you are living. We bring what we are seeing from inside organisations like yours.
What 10X puts on the table
We are embedded inside organisations navigating this right now. Here is what we are seeing.
From inside the 10X population
16-point gap
10X embedded product telemetry across 99 client organisations. n = 1,362 managers and leaders with seniority recorded. To May 2026.
01 · What we are seeing right now
Bottom-up AI adoption is already well ahead of most official strategies.
The gap is inverted by seniority: across the manager population we are embedded inside, the most junior tier uses embedded AI tools at 1.6 times the rate of the most senior tier.
The decisions about direction are being made at the top. The actual adoption is being driven from the bottom.
02
The duplication problem is significant and largely invisible. Teams are solving the same problems independently with no mechanism to share. We will put data on the table about where this is happening and what it costs.
03
The data risk is real but most organisations do not know the extent of it. We see it from the inside. We will be specific about where the exposures tend to sit and what early warning signs look like.
04
The organisations channelling bottom-up AI well share specific characteristics. We will share what those are, grounded in what we are actually observing, not what the strategy literature says.
05
The window for directing this transformation is narrowing. We will make that concrete. Not as a scare story. As an honest read of where most organisations are in the cycle right now.
Who should be in this room
This room is for you if the headline stopped you.
If you read that and thought “yes, and I have not worked out what to do about it”: this is the conversation you need to be in.
CEOs, COOs and MDs with direct accountability for where the organisation goes
Leaders who know AI adoption is happening in their business and are not sure how much or in what direction
People who want a frank conversation with peers about the reality, not a presentation about the opportunity
Senior leaders with enough authority to act on what they learn in the room
What you take with you
The half-day produces four things. None of them are slides.
We will not ask you to spend a morning in the room without telling you what you walk away with. Here is the commitment, made explicit.
- 01
The 10X cross-organisation briefing.
Distilled view from inside 99 client organisations on the question this room is built around. Yours to take to your board.
Sent within 5 working days.
- 02
Named peer introductions.
Two to three direct introductions to leaders in the room you'd benefit from continuing the conversation with. Made with consent from both sides.
On request after the room.
- 03
An anonymised synthesis of the conversation.
A written record of what was said in the room, with attribution stripped. The patterns that emerged, the contradictions that surfaced, the questions left open.
Sent within 5 working days.
- 04
One concrete first move.
By the end of the session, every leader in the room leaves with one named action they will take inside their organisation within thirty days. The room holds itself to it.
Committed by end of session.
The pool we build rooms from
These are the leaders we are drawing rooms from.
These are real numbers from the 10X client base. The archetypes below are drawn from the senior leaders we are currently working with across that population - anonymised, but specific enough to recognise yourself or a peer.
Who’s in the pool?
99
Client orgs represented
12
Sectors
45 to 1,000+
Headcount range
Recent leaders in our pool include
CFO of a UK financial services group, 250 to 1,000 employees
COO of a professional services firm, 100 to 250 employees
MD of a UK telco and tech services business, 1,000+ employees
CTO of a UK technology group, 250 to 1,000 employees
Director of Operations at a national retail group, 1,000+ employees
MD of a UK healthcare and pharma business, 100 to 250 employees
CEO of a national charity, 250 to 1,000 employees
Executive Director at a construction and property group, 250 to 1,000 employees
If you fit one of these, you fit the pool.
Who curates the room
One person decides who is in the room.
Curation only works if you trust the curator. Here is who he is, what he sees, and the basis on which we ask you to.
Josh Gain
Founder and Managing Director, 10X Managers
Josh runs 10X Managers as an embedded performance partner to the management and leadership layer of organisations. He sits across the strategic work happening inside 99 client organisations simultaneously, watching how the biggest forces actually land at the level where strategy turns into execution. He sees the patterns that surface across sectors, and the gaps between what leadership teams plan and what their managers can deliver. He decides which conversations need to happen, and who needs to be in the room when they do.
The room is being built. Apply to be in it.
The practical details
- Next Rooms
- June 2026. Exact dates confirmed on invitation.
- Format
- Chatham House rules. No slides. No recording.
- Group size
- 8 to 12 senior leaders per room.
- Duration
- Half a day.
- Location
- In person. Location is dependent on attendees, but often London or Birmingham.
- Fee
- By invitation. No fee.
- Response
- Within 5 working days.We respond to every application. We do not leave silence on the line.
Make the case for your seat in this room
If this is the conversation you need to be in, tell us.
We take applications, identify the group whose experiences will both complement and push each other around this question, then we invite. We will reach out when we believe the room is right for you.