Kai Blakeborough

Kai Blakeborough describes himself as a leader who uses AI, not an “AI leader.” As a Research Lead and AI strategy practitioner, he helps leaders and mission-driven organizations make clearer decisions, navigate change, and build trust around new technology. He coordinated an enterprise AI strategy shaped by roughly 75 stakeholder conversations, has led software and workflow implementations, and builds public software with automated tests, review gates, and human judgment at the center. Before R&D, Kai spent more than a decade in communications, ministry, marketing, legal operations, and people leadership. AI helped him shorten what he believes could have been an 18–24 month transition into R&D to roughly 6–9 months. That experience shapes his belief that AI can make upskilling...