Rowan Advisory

Building new forms for the work AI is changing.

I teach it with Otago Business School. I prove it in real businesses. This edition holds five works.

Edition 001 · 8 September 2026 · All editions

1. Interactive Lecture 01

   Can a fashion designer become a tech bro?

   Interactive Lecture 01 is a lecture built as a page rather than a slide deck, in which the audience commits to an answer before the argument begins.

   An interactive lecture · live

2. Mappa

   2 degrees of separation.

   Mappa is a meaning-map: one verified database of the relationships around an organisation, so that who is connected to whom is known rather than guessed.

   A meaning-map · live

3. How we built an undergraduate AI paper in New Zealand

   AI use approved in every assessment.

   How we built an undergraduate AI paper in New Zealand is Rowan Advisory's published account of designing BSNS 350, The AI Room: a 300-level Otago Business School paper in business decision-making where AI is the context rather than the subject, and in which AI use is approved in every assessment.

   An account · published

4. AI Leadership Residency

   Conversations. Network. Questions. Framing. NZ organisations.

   The AI Leadership Residency is a two-day room in which twenty senior New Zealand leaders examine what New Zealand organisations are actually doing with AI, run by Rowan Advisory with Otago Business School.

   A room, with Otago Business School · live

5. Personal OS

   It’s all about you.

   Personal OS is a written specification of how one person works: what an AI should understand about them, where it should look, what stays private, and what it should remember and forget, so the same standards hold every time they work with a machine.

   An operating system · in development

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