Upcoming29 Jun · 12pm AEST
Haitao Li
AI Engineering, Canva
Executive Ark, A Private Network for Leaders Serious About AI
You're expected to be across AI. Who do you learn from?
A private network for the executives and founders who need to be across AI, whether you're bringing it into your function, rolling it out across the business, or getting hands-on yourself. Real numbers from people a step ahead, the frameworks to do it properly, and a room to get the questions you need answered.
The job nobody trained you for
The questions that don't have a vendor answer.
If you're expected to bring AI into your team, you already know the demos were the easy part. The hard part is the operating questions, and the people selling you software are the last ones you'd ask.
Q1
Where do I even start bringing AI into my team's work?
Q2
How do I know my team is using AI well, not just looking busy?
Q3
How do I keep them trained when the tools change every other week?
Q4
What does good look like, and how do I measure if it's paying off?
Q5
How do I keep AI spend under control as we scale it up?
Q6
How do I stop the flood of low-quality AI slop?
Executive Ark is where you work these out, with people a step ahead, not a step behind.
Who it's for
Senior leaders putting AI to work.
01 / Function leaders
Heads of Marketing, Sales, Ops, Finance.
You're expected to bring AI into your function and show results, not just talk about it. You want to see how people in your seat are actually doing it.
02 / Founders & GMs
Founders and GMs who own the P&L.
You need conviction on where AI actually moves the needle, from operators who've shipped it, not another vendor pitch.
03 / Getting hands-on
Leaders who want to get hands-on.
You're expected to be across AI, but there's no time to teach yourself alone. You want to get hands-on, fast, with people who'll show you what actually works.
What's inside
Built for the people expected to make AI work.
This is an early cohort. The frameworks and templates below are being built with the founding members, from real work across functions.
Insider Sessions
Fortnightly closed-door sessions with operators who've actually done it. The real numbers, the slide they won't show on a webinar, what they'd do differently.
Strategy Frameworks
Frameworks for the calls that matter: where to start, what to prioritise, how to measure it, build versus buy. Working documents, not theory.
Budget & Token Templates
Templates for setting spend caps, modelling cost per seat, and forecasting an AI budget you can take to your CFO.
The Single AI Stack
How to pull a sprawl of vendors into one coherent stack, with guidance on integration, governance, and what to cut.
The Brand Knowledge Brain
How to build one source of truth your whole org's AI can draw on, so every tool speaks in your brand, your data, your standards.
Sharing Skills Across the Org
How to package what works and roll it out past the early adopters, so the whole team levels up, not just the keen few.
Upcoming sessions
The speaker lineup.
Every fortnight an operator who has built it runs a 30 to 40 minute deep-dive, followed by live Q&A. Real rollouts and real numbers, no vendor pitches.
Upcoming7 Jul · 12pm AEST
Aden Mann
Head of AI & Automation, Immutable
Upcoming28 Jul · 12pm AEST
Paul Migliorini
VP, Google Cloud ANZ
More speakers announced regularly. Sessions are recorded for members who can't attend live.
Why now
From hype to the hard operating questions.
The first wave of AI was demos. The second was vendors. The third, the one you're in, is execution, run by the people who already understand how their business works.
Most of the market is still selling the same thing: bolt agents onto broken processes and call it transformation. We watched that movie with marketing automation. It ended in tech debt.
Executive Ark is for the small group of leaders who'd rather compare real notes with each other than buy another vendor's deck.
Why we're building this
Help the best companies in Australia move first.
The goal is simple and a little ambitious. Get Australia's top businesses adopting AI faster than anyone expects, so the country punches above its weight as a global AI player, and the people in this room become the talent hub the next decade is built on.
Your host
Jeremy Cabral
Co-founder of Finder
Jeremy co-founded Finder and bootstrapped it, without outside capital, to more than $100M in revenue and a $650M valuation, growing it from a Sydney startup into one of Australia's most visited websites and a global comparison business.
He spent over a decade as an operator behind its growth. Now he is putting the same lens on AI, and hosts Executive Ark himself, sitting in the roundtables with members who learn what is actually working from operators at companies including Notion, Google Cloud, Canva and Immutable.
How to join
Membership is by application only.
01 / Apply
You apply.
Tell us what you're running and where your org is on its AI rollout. Two minutes.
02 / Review
Wait for your application to be reviewed.
Jeremy reviews every application. We keep focused on senior roles, so it's a real filter, not a formality.
03 / Invited
You're invited in.
If it's a fit, you get an invite and your way into the community. Most people hear back within 48 hours.
Free for the members we accept. Application-only, to keep the room senior.
Questions
Things people actually ask.
If you own a P&L, a function, or the AI mandate, probably yes. If you're after an intro-to-AI course, this is the wrong room. If you've already started and want a peer group to pressure-test what's next, you're our person.
Yes. Executive Ark is free for the members we accept. We keep it application-only to keep the room senior.
You submit the form, Jeremy reviews it personally, and if it's a fit you get an invite. Most people hear back within 48 hours. We keep the cohort small on purpose.
Most communities optimise for volume, the more members the better. Executive Ark optimises for signal. Sessions are structured, discussion is closed-door, and the application is a real filter. We'd rather have 100 operators than 10,000 lurkers.
Jeremy Cabral, co-founder of Finder. Jeremy bootstrapped Finder, without outside capital, to more than $100M in revenue and a $650M valuation, and spent over a decade as an operator behind its growth. Now he advises executives and founders on AI and hosts Executive Ark himself, in the room with members.
Apply
Apply to join.
Tell us what you're running. Jeremy reviews every application personally and we'll be back to you within 48 hours.
We keep the room small. Not every application gets a place.