🧜‍♀️ The AI Collective HR | Decide, Commit, Execute: Using AI to Plan Your Year

## Decide, Commit, Execute: Using AI to Plan Your Year

How founders use AI to create clarity, focus, and execution momentum for the year ahead.

Most aspiring founders don’t struggle with motivation or ideas.
They struggle with clarity, prioritization, and execution.

AI has made this problem both better and worse. Used well, it can compress thinking and sharpen decisions. Used poorly, it multiplies distraction and half-finished plans.

This live session introduces a founder-grade annual planning framework—and shows you how to use AI as a thinking partner to articulate your ideas, pressure-test your assumptions, and turn intention into action.

This is not a generic goal-setting workshop.

It’s a practical operating process you can repeat every year—and revisit quarterly.

Join Andrew Stafford for a guided walkthrough designed for early-stage founders, aspiring founders, and builders who want to stop spinning and start executing.

# ​🔍 What You’ll Learn

Why most annual plans fail before February
The hidden reasons founders lose momentum—and how to avoid planning theater.

The Founder Operating Plan
A clear, repeatable framework to move from ideas → decisions → execution.

How to use AI as a founder’s thinking partner
Use AI to articulate vague ideas, clarify priorities, and stress-test decisions—without outsourcing responsibility.

Constraints before goals
How identifying your real constraint (time, capital, energy, skill, market) makes strategy simpler and execution faster.

The Focus Filter
How to choose one primary focus for the year—and intentionally downgrade everything else.

Turning vision into 12-week action
How to translate long-term goals into near-term execution plans with built-in review and adjustment loops.

You’ll leave knowing exactly how to finish your annual plan, how often to revisit it, and how to use AI responsibly as part of the process.

# ​🎙️ Your Speakers

## ​Andrew Stafford

​Co-Lead of The AI Collective Hampton Roads chapter.
​25 years across two startups, Amazon, NASA, and major enterprise consulting.

# ​Who should attend?

• Aspiring founders with a strong idea but no clear execution framework
• Early-stage founders feeling busy but unfocused
• Builders and operators exploring how to use AI beyond surface-level tasks
• Anyone who wants a repeatable yearly planning process, not another productivity hack

# ​Why this matters

We are entering a phase where ideas are cheap and tools are abundant.
Your advantage is no longer effort alone—it’s:

• Clarity
• Focus
• Decision quality
• Follow-through

AI can either amplify confusion—or sharpen execution.
This session shows you how to make it the latter.

🤝 Organizers & partners

Organizers
The AI Collective Hampton Roads

​Platinum partners
TechArk
Regent University
ECPI University

​Silver partners
TEKsystems
Assembly

🌍 ​Our parent org
The AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 150,000+ pioneers – founders, researchers, operators, and investors – exploring the frontier of AI in major tech hubs worldwide. Through events, workshops, and community-led research, we empower the AI ecosystem to collaboratively steer AI’s future toward trust, openness, and human flourishing.

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