[ I ]The Score

Is a CEOabove the AI?

Below the line: work that can be generated. Above it: the objective, the authority to act, the evidence, and who owns the exception. This is the typical CEO week, split along that line. Yours will differ. That is the point of checking.

No link, or a private profile? instead.

70%

Above the AI

You hold the pen where it counts, with seventy percent of your week spent genuinely above the line. The remaining thirty percent is just the administrative tax of being the person in charge.

Read as: someone who steers a mid-sized company through daily trade-offs.

[ II ] The week, split

Above the line

70% of the week

Setting annual strategy and quarterly priorities

15%

You decide where the ship goes, even if the crew is busy arguing about the oars.

Deciding budget trade-offs

15%

The ultimate exercise in making everyone equally unhappy.

Representing the company to the board and key customers

20%

You are the face of the operation, especially when they want to speak to a manager.

Arbitrating disputes between departments

15%

Acting as a highly paid marriage counselor for marketing and engineering.

Handling public crises and major exceptions

When the alarm rings, you get to hold the bucket.

Below the line

30% of the week

Reviewing the monthly reporting pack

10%

You spend an hour looking at numbers that took forty hours to format.

Preparing board materials and slide decks

10%

Even the boss cannot escape the tyranny of the green progress bar.

Sitting through weekly status meetings

10%

Nodding along to updates that could have been a three-sentence email.

What you own, of the four things that stay human

The objectivewhat good looks like

The authoritythe power to act and refuse

The evidencewhat settles a question

The exceptionwhat lands on your desk at 6pm

[ III ] Move the number

This number can move.

Hand over the preparation of board materials to your chief of staff or department heads. You should only be reviewing the final narrative, not alignment-checking slides on a Sunday night.

That is a build, not a discipline problem, and it does not need AI expertise in house: Above The AI brings the system, the person keeps the objective, the authority, the evidence and the exception.

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Drafted in one pass from what you gave us. A toy, with one serious idea inside: the line is real even when the number is rough. Nothing is stored, and no name appears anywhere, unless you publish your page yourself.

The split, by role