For leaders who build
You know AI matters.
Now ship it.
You don't need another vendor pitch. You need a clear plan to evaluate, prioritize, and deploy AI inside your organization — starting this quarter.
You don't need another vendor pitch. You need a clear plan to evaluate, prioritize, and deploy AI inside your organization — starting this quarter.
You've sat through the vendor demos. You've read the analyst reports. Your board is asking for an AI strategy — and you still don't know what to build first, who to trust, or where to start.
Every week on Mark My Words, Fortune 500 CIOs, technical founders, and AI researchers share what actually worked — and what didn't. No theory. No hype. Just the playbook from people who've already shipped what you're trying to build.
Imagine your team leaving a session with a clear framework for evaluating AI opportunities, a shared vocabulary for making decisions, and the confidence to move — not just more slides to file away. That's what this is built to deliver.
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Your board is asking about AI. Your team is overwhelmed. Walk away with a prioritization framework that cuts through the noise and focuses on what ships.
The rules of competitive advantage are changing. Learn what the best leaders are doing differently — and what stays the same when machines get smarter.
80% of AI projects die in prototype. If you're stuck in pilot purgatory, discover what the other 20% do differently to get to production.
You don't need another strategy deck gathering dust. You need a partner who builds alongside you — from discovery through deployment. Through Michigan Software Labs, Mark and his team have been turning complex ideas into production software since 2010.
This starts with understanding your specific problem. Not a template. Yours.
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Mark has been exactly where you are — leading teams through ambiguity, making build-or-buy decisions under pressure, figuring out which bets to place when the technology is moving faster than the org chart.
As co-founder of Michigan Software Labs, he's spent 15 years turning complex technical ideas into shipped products. His family's legacy of craftsmanship runs deep — his great-grandfather founded Forslund Furniture Company in 1935. Mark carries the same ethos into technology: build things that endure.
He built Mark Johnson Ventures because every executive conversation kept circling back to the same question you're asking: "What should we actually be doing with AI?" The podcast, the newsletter, the speaking — it's all designed to give you a real answer.