Rowan Advisory

Building new forms for the work AI is changing.

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

Edition 001 · 8 September 2026 · set in Window · All editions

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   Interactive Lecture 01

   Can a fashion designer become a tech bro?

   Chloé Julian and I began with a question: can a fashion designer become a tech bro? The page asks you to answer before you hear our argument.

   An interactive lecture · live

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   Mappa

   A map of the people around a shared endeavour, not a list of positions.

   I began Mappa because the connections I care about do not fit in a pipeline or an org chart. The working instance and its data have their own boundaries.

   A meaning-map · earlier build; current product development paused

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   How we built an undergraduate AI paper in New Zealand

   AI use approved in every assessment.

   I wrote about how an undergraduate business paper with AI in the work came together at Otago. The account is dated; the teaching is still ahead.

   An account · published

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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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   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

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