Reshaping the org for an AI-driven future
Moving from hours to coverage as the measurement of audit work.
A nine-essay series
The Trailblazer series
Nine essays on reshaping an audit function around AI capability. Published weekly on LinkedIn, beginning April 2026.
The series describes the work: moving from hours to coverage, getting hundreds of people to adopt AI, reimagining what audit can be, detecting signal earlier, building mechanisms that translate insight into action, and keeping controls at the same pace as capability. The later essays turn to what rises as the machines take more: judgment as the work, the danger of fast sensing wired to slow decisions, and the information asymmetry AI can unlock across a company's seams.
2025 Audit Innovator Trailblazer Award
Presented by Protiviti and the Institute of Internal Auditors. Awarded to Microsoft's Audit, Risk and Compliance team for multi-year modernization using generative AI, automation, and analytics across audits.
Essays
Reshaping the talent for an AI-driven future
How a team of hundreds actually adopted AI, not just learned about it.
Reimagining what audit can be
The three shifts that let an audit function move from sampling the past to navigating the present.
Earlier signal detection and more predictive risk analytics
What it takes to deliver signal while the business partner can still act on it.
What's working, what's hard, what we're still learning
A reflective essay on the wins, the ongoing challenges, and the open questions.
Controls at AI speed
A bonus essay on the governance gap, and why controls are the structural counterpart to clarity.
Judgment is now the job
When agents take over the gathering, judgment becomes the whole of the work, and the bar on it rises.
The two-speed company
Your signal now arrives in hours while the management calendar still runs at its old cadence, and the gap is where the risk lives.
The hedge fund model for risk and audit
The information is already there, split across the seams of the matrix, and AI is the first thing that can unlock it.