AI Systems Studio
Executive Briefing · 2026
Human + AI
Operating Systems
Organizations are investing heavily in AI, but technology alone does not create transformation.
The greatest opportunities emerge when organizations redesign governance, workflows, decision-making, knowledge systems, and execution for Human + AI collaboration.
26ers helps organizations design Human + AI operating systems that improve decision quality, increase execution capacity, and transform organizational experience into reusable intelligence.
The organizations that outperform in the AI era will not be those with the most AI tools. They will be those that learn faster than their competitors.
The AI Outcome Gap
Organizations are investing in AI, but many struggle to translate experimentation into measurable business outcomes.
Leaders face a growing set of questions:
- "Where should we begin?"
- "Which vendors should we trust?"
- "How do we future-proof decisions?"
- "How do we create measurable value rather than isolated pilots?"
Why Organizations Struggle to Create AI Outcomes
Technology adoption is not the primary barrier. Organizational systems are.
Disconnected Tools
Point solutions create overlap, silos, shadow workflows, and fragmented execution.
The Executive Journey
Each stage reflects a different leadership question. Progress depends on answering the right question at the right time.
Curiosity
Primary Question
What is possible?
Outcome
Awareness
Key Decisions
- Leadership interest
- Board curiosity
- Vendor outreach
- Individual experimentation
Portfolio Value Creation
A standardized rollout creates portfolio-level value: maturity benchmarking across operating companies, repeatable playbooks, faster deployment of proven workflows, and shared learning that compounds across the portfolio.
Portfolio-wide diagnostic across people, process, knowledge, and systems.
Rank opportunities by value, feasibility, and strategic fit.
Run controlled deployments in lead companies with a shared operating playbook.
Benchmark outcomes against baselines and peer cohorts.
Replicate proven patterns across the portfolio with shared governance.
Portfolio Value Creation
A standardized rollout creates portfolio-level value: maturity benchmarking across operating companies, repeatable operating playbooks, faster deployment of proven workflows, and shared learning — so every new initiative compounds on what the rest of the portfolio has already validated.
The Investor Edge
The Portfolio Learning Advantage
Most portfolios share capital.
Few portfolios share learning.
The highest-performing portfolios create systems that allow one company's lessons, workflows, and outcomes to benefit every company.
Portfolio Learning Flow
- 01Company A
- 02Pilot
- 03Outcome
- 04Learning Captured
- 05Portfolio Intelligence
- 06Company B Starts Further Ahead
- 07Company C Starts Further Ahead
Every initiative compounds on what the rest of the portfolio has already validated.
Engagement Models
From strategy through implementation, 26ers helps organizations design, deploy, and scale Human + AI operating systems that improve performance, increase execution capacity, and create organizational leverage.
Strategic Advisory
Strategic clarity for AI-era decisions.
- Aligned executive direction on operating model strategy.
- Prioritized opportunity portfolio with clear sequencing.
- Defined governance posture and decision rights.
Design & Implementation
End-to-end operating model transformation.
- Human + AI operating system designed, implemented, and operationalized.
- Governed workflows delivering measurable business outcomes.
- Internal capability developed to scale and evolve the model.
Optimization & Scale
Compounding organizational leverage over time.
- Continuous optimization across pilots, rollout, and portfolio.
- Embedded senior counsel through transitions and expansion.
- Sustained organizational leverage and adoption velocity.
Learn More About Service Offerings
Each engagement model is composed of modular services that can be tailored to your organization's goals, operating environment, and implementation needs.
9 ServicesThe Human + AI Operating System Framework
Seven composable layers that work together to create a scalable Human + AI operating model.
Governance
Policy, risk, data rights, model standards, accountability, and decision authority.
Business Impact
Creates the structure that allows every other layer to scale safely.
Outcome of the Framework
Organizational Intelligence
When all seven layers operate together, organizations create a repeatable system for turning experience into organizational intelligence.
The Organizational Intelligence Advantage
Organizations generate data every day. Few systematically convert experience into organizational intelligence. Every decision, outcome, and lesson can strengthen future judgment.
Organizations that learn faster than competitors create a compounding advantage that is difficult to replicate.
The Value Creation Equation
Operating inputs compound into organizational leverage. Organizational leverage compounds into enterprise outcomes and portfolio value.
Equation One · Operating Inputs
Organizational Leverage
Equation Two · Enterprise Outcomes
Portfolio Value Creation
How Human + AI Systems Compound Value
Each cycle creates more capability than the one before it — decisions sharpen execution, execution produces outcomes, outcomes feed learning, and learning compounds into organizational leverage.
The goal is not simply automation. The goal is creating a system where every decision, outcome, and lesson improves future performance.
Decision Quality
Human + AI decision systems surface better evidence, sharpen judgment, and accelerate executive alignment.
Business Impact
Higher-confidence decisions, made faster, with fewer reversals.
Why 26ers
Artificial intelligence is not simply a technology shift. It is an operating model shift.
The organizations that outperform in the next decade will not be those with the most AI tools. They will be the organizations that redesign how decisions are made, how knowledge is shared, and how humans and intelligent systems work together.
The future competitive advantage of organizations will not be how much AI they deploy. It will be how effectively they convert experience into organizational intelligence.
26ers helps leadership teams design Human + AI operating systems that improve decision quality, increase execution capacity, and create organizational leverage.
Our work sits at the intersection of strategy, governance, workflow design, and AI implementation.
Because transformation does not happen when organizations adopt new tools. It happens when organizations learn to operate differently.
Most organizations deploy technology. The organizations that win convert experience into organizational intelligence.
Theresa Piasta
Founder & CEO
26ers AI Systems Studio
An enterprise transformation leader and AI strategy executive advising organizations on AI operating models, governance, and Human + AI systems design.
Her experience spans enterprise software, financial services, and military leadership as a former U.S. Army Captain.
Selected Experience
- Salesforce
- Outreach
- Cresta
- J.P. Morgan
- Bank of America Merrill Lynch
- U.S. Army
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