Open W eights, Open Mind

When the AI behind your business changes overnight, who decides?

A chairman's airplane read, a seven-figure AI bill and a model retiring on someone

else's schedule send CEO Marcus Bell of Halvorne Mutual on a year-long search for

an answer . Guided by June, a former chip designer turned Zen potter , Marcus and his

team discover that owning your AI isn't about buying servers. It's about knowing what

to keep, what to rent, and what to let go.

T old as a warm, funny business f able, Open Weights, Open Mind gives leaders

thirteen practical tools, the Open Mind T oolkit, for deciding when owning AI models

makes sense, when it doesn't, and how to get there without betting the company .

Inside, you'll learn how to:

Separate what your team knows about AI from what it only assumes or fears

Map every dependency behind your AI, and choose the ones you keep

Decide which work to rent, reserve, host or own, using the Five Koans Assessment

Calculate the true cost of owning AI, and the utilization at which it pays

Build the evaluation, governance and data foundations you need while you're still

renting

Answer a regulator's questions about any model you use

For CEOs, product leaders, CIOs, CISOs and anyone accountable for AI they don't

fully control.