-- CAIO Coach · Dave Hajdu
Leadership Has Changed
Half the job is still people. The other half is now AI. We coach you on both.

Dave Hajdu
Founder & Chief AI Officer, Edge8 AI
We raised $9.5 million for TINYpulse. Had Baseline Venture Capital behind us, a real board, and a real team. And for most of that journey, I couldn't tell you the difference between a repository and a folder.
That wasn't laziness. That was just how it worked until AI made it inefficient. Now every executive faces the same inflection point I did. The wall between leadership and the technical side of the business is coming down, whether you're ready or not.
I coach leaders to get ready. Not to code. Not to become data scientists. To lead the AI half of every workflow they're already responsible for. The organizational framework I use for that work is the Four Offices of the Future -- Revenue, Talent, Operations, and Innovation. That's where the ROI lives. Join the Leadership in the AI Era community and work through it with a global cohort of executives.
Group Coaching
Weekly Live Sessions
Each week, members submit the AI challenges they're facing. Dave coaches the top topics live. Anyone can join, ask questions, and get real-time guidance on their specific situation.
Private Coaching
One-on-One Sessions
For executives who want focused, private attention on their AI strategy. Dave works directly with you on your roadmap, your team, and your specific business context.
Day 10: The Coaching Assistant
The hard part of AI coaching isn't the coaching. It's the data. Organize what you know about the people you lead, add a coaching framework you trust, and AI stops giving generic advice.
Read →Day 9: The Day the Designer Got Stuck
Overengineering produced identical images and wasted hours. Engineering AI agents is about outcomes and guardrails, not detailed instructions. Here is how stripping it back fixed everything.
Read →How I Built a Content Studio With Claude Code in One Conversation
I built a multi-brand content production system using Claude Code in a single session. The three-layer framework of context, instructions, and workflow that makes AI content actually sound like you.
Read →