NAVIA AI — board advisory for an AI executive-coaching product
Role
I'm a board advisor to NAVIA AI, a SaaS company bringing an AI executive-coaching product through beta. NAVIA is named here with its agreement; this page describes my advisory role at a high level and does not disclose the company's proprietary product.
Where AI leads, assists, or steps back
Coaching is a high-trust setting, so the central question is not how much the model can do but where it should. Much of the advisory work is drawing that line clearly: where AI can lead, where it should only assist, and where a human stays in charge of the relationship.
Evaluation and quality
A product people lean on personally has to be measured on more than uptime. I help shape the evaluation and quality signals that tell the team whether the product is actually good for the person using it — not just whether it responded.
From beta to a release users can rely on
The work connects product direction, model behavior, and go-to-market as the company moves out of beta, so the decisions in each stay consistent with the others rather than pulling in different directions.
What this illustrates
Board-level advice is more useful when it stays technical. The value here is judgment that holds product, AI behavior, and go-to-market in the same view — and is willing to say where the AI should not be in charge.
If this sounds useful
If you are taking an AI product through beta and want an advisor who stays close to the model behavior, send the workflow.