A founding cohort

Join August's AI Frontier Council.

With AI, keeping pace is the work. We convene a standing cohort for the leaders carrying the human side of it: ongoing access to our expertise, peers facing the same questions, and support whenever something comes up that can't wait.

The moment

The questions don't stop coming.

AI is moving faster than anyone can keep up with. You're making decisions about your people in real time: how roles change, who decides what, where trust holds, how the work gets organized. There's no map, and rarely anyone to think it through with.

Most of the help on offer is about the tools, the efficiency, the headcount. Almost none of it is about the people living through the change.

The gap isn't your ambition. It's the distance between how fast AI is changing the work and how well any organization is set up to bring its people through it.

What it is

A standing place to bring every new question.

The AI Frontier Council is a membership, not a one-off engagement. Your team gets ongoing access to August's expertise on the people side of change, a curated cohort of leaders facing the same shift, and support whenever a question can't wait. It's built around what AI is really testing: how your teams organize, decide, and learn.

Not a tools vendor Not a one-time workshop Not generic AI consulting
What membership includes

What you get.

How it works

Concrete enough to picture.

Term
A fixed six-month founding cohort, July to December 2026.
Rhythm
Quarterly peer roundtables across the term, plus a closed leadership workshop for your organization.
Your advisor
A named senior August practitioner, dedicated to you and on call throughout the term.
August's role
We convene the cohort, facilitate the roundtables, and bring the expertise. Erica Seldin leads, with the wider August team behind her.
Why August convenes this

We know change.

1

We're already doing this work. We host the conversations, track the edge of AI adoption, and our AI Learning Lab series is this audience already gathering.

2

Our point of view is the difference: the human side of AI, grounded in how teams organize, decide, and learn. Not the tools, not the efficiency, not the headcount.

3

We know change, and we're partnering with those who know AI. August leads on the people side; a named AI Advisory Board of leading-edge experts keeps the cohort ahead of the technology.

4

The people who design the work are the people who deliver it. You get senior practitioners in the room, every time.

Certified B-CorpWomen-OwnedAuthor of Teams That Meet the MomentAdvisory ties to Edmondson & Mackenzie
How this is different

Built for how AI actually shows up.

Your questions keep changing
A relationship that's there for the next one, not advice that's already out of date.
The tools aren't the hard part
We focus on the human side, helping your people keep up, not on the platforms.
You don't need another project
An ongoing cohort and access you can use as things come up.

There's a harder question underneath all of this, and it's one we keep at the center: as AI reshapes the work, who in your organization gets brought along, and who gets left behind?

Membership

The founding cohort.

A small first group who help shape the Council as it takes form. One simple membership, priced for the leaders willing to go first.

Founding charter · July to December 2026
$15,000
For the six-month founding charter. Standard membership is $25,000 / year thereafter, and founding members lock in that rate.
  • A dedicated, named August advisor
  • Quarterly peer roundtables with the cohort
  • A closed leadership workshop for your organization
  • Access to the AI Advisory Board
  • A founding seat, and a hand in shaping the Council
Join the founding cohort

The pace won't wait. Neither should you.

Seats in the founding cohort are limited. The first members shape what the Council becomes. If that's you, let's talk.

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Convened by Erica Seldin and the August team.