Rowan Advisory

We were meant to use the tech. Now we make it.

I teach this through Otago Business School and test it in real businesses.

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   My stance

   We were meant to use the tech. Now we make it.

   Three positions so far. The newest is the one I stand behind today.

   A stance · changed 11 October 2026

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   The AI Room

   How do we prepare students for a changing workforce when they’re not turning up to the room where we teach them?

   BSNS350 is my attempt at an answer to the above questions. Bring the people doing AI work into the classroom. Let students question them. Then ask students to make and defend a business decision of their own. Any Otago student with the prerequisite can take it.

   An undergraduate paper, with Otago Business School · enrolling, first class 9 November

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   Personal OS

   I wanted an agent to work from my rules, not make up its own.

   I keep my working context and rules in plain text. I can change them, and the agents I point at that record can work from the same version.

   An operating system · in development

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   AI Leadership Residency

   Eighty leaders this year. Twenty at a time. Two days. No spectator seats.

   With Otago Business School, I bring senior leaders and people doing the work into one room. They examine actual New Zealand AI decisions and work out what they would do.

   A room, with Otago Business School · live

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   Mara

   Who said you had to be a tech bro?

   Mara starts as a folder on your computer. Open it with Codex or Claude Code, answer the setup questions, and review what the agent proposes to save.

   A free starting point · live, early

Rachel McBride · founder · rachel@rowanadvisory.co.nz · 027 270 9624