Post by Kaylyn Knoll

I'm a sucker for a good analogy. Last night at ClickUp's The Table in Philadelphia, two really caught my attention: "You can't put a Ferrari engine on a horse and buggy." In reference to pivoting your company's strategy - "it's like turning a boat around vs. a speedboat" Leaders across healthcare, advertising, education, and tech services all circling the same question: what do you do when your company wants AI but hasn't built the foundation? → "Our CEO says we need to do AI" was the most common starting point. Zero roadmap behind it. → The gap isn't ambition, it's adaptability. Radically adaptable wins. → Same company, wildly different floors of maturity. Some teams vibe coding agents while others still enter data manually. → Change management is the actual bottleneck. → Centralized data is the unlock. Without it, nothing scales. The room's consensus: being here makes us the top 20% who stay curious enough to keep learning what others are doing. That curiosity is the edge. Thank you Liam Mahoney and Christopher Rubeo for joining me in Philly. And to every leader who pulled up a seat alongside us. 🤝 Stay curious, Philly!