Expertise for the AI-driven enterprise era

AI transformation advisory
for organizations that need
to win the next decade.

Strategy, governance, and execution from a team that has built what we now help others build.

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What we do

Six service areas

AI Strategy & Roadmapping

Build a 12 to 24 month AI roadmap your board can fund and your team can execute.

AI Governance & Risk

Establish the governance frameworks and policy library your organization needs before the regulators arrive.

Training & Upskilling

A tiered curriculum for boards, executives, managers, and individual contributors that drives real capability.

Founder / CEO / Board Advisory

Ongoing strategic counsel from a practitioner who has built and scaled software companies.

Education AI Transformation

University-specific AI transformation strategy through our edu.cloud platform.

AI Maturity Research

Benchmark your AI maturity against the Fortune 500 through the AIDE Institute.

Who we work with

Fortune 500 transformation teams.
Growth-stage CEOs and boards.
Mid-market PE operating partners.
University provosts and CIOs.

How we work

Diagnose. Design. Deploy.

01

Diagnose

We benchmark your current AI maturity against peers, map your Multi-Layered Latency Stack, and identify the highest-leverage opportunities.

Latency map + opportunity backlog

02

Design

We co-design a transformation roadmap covering strategy, governance, training, and execution that your organization can own and operate.

AI roadmap + governance framework

03

Deploy

We work alongside your team to execute, measure what changes for the customer, and refine until the outcomes are real.

Measurable capability gains

AI is a capability, not a tool.

Strategy without governance is theatre.

Training is the multiplier most firms underestimate.

We measure what changes for the customer.

Our ventures

We don't just advise. We build.

Autonomous business platform

Entonomy

Entonomy builds the infrastructure so organizations operate at system speed, not human speed. Autonomous workflows for the AI-Driven Enterprise.

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AI maturity research

AIDE Institute

We benchmark the AI capabilities of the world's largest organizations and publish the AIDE Institute List. The research Fortune 500 boards rely on.

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Education AI transformation

edu.cloud

We help universities redesign curriculum, operations, and research for the AI era. Purpose-built for institutional scale.

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About Cheek LLC

Built by practitioners.

Cheek LLC is an AI transformation advisory founded by Paul Cheek. We advise leaders of Fortune 500 companies, growth-stage businesses, and universities on how to refactor their organizations for the era of the AI-Driven Enterprise.

Our founder Paul Cheek is a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan, a serial software entrepreneur, and the bestselling author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics. He teaches in MIT's highest rated entrepreneurship courses and co-founded the AI-Driven Enterprise (AIDE) Institute.

We work with a network of senior advisors, fractional partners, and research fellows who bring MIT-grade expertise and the directness of operators who have shipped, scaled, and exited software businesses.

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About Paul Cheek

A practitioner who teaches what he builds.

Paul Cheek is a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan, serial software entrepreneur, and bestselling author. He advises Fortune 500 boards on AI transformation while helping Gen Z founders build agent-native businesses.

  • Advises executives who manage teams of 1,000s of humans and Gen Z founders managing 1,000s of agents.
  • Led the first comprehensive outside-in, company-by-company analysis of S&P 500 AI maturity — without relying on overreported surveys.
  • Teaches AI and entrepreneurship at MIT to undergraduate, masters, PhD, and executive students.
  • Advised 1,000+ entrepreneurs over the past eight years at MIT, and ran MIT's Entrepreneurship Center for three years overseeing curricular and co-curricular courses, programs, and accelerators.
  • Architected MIT's generative AI entrepreneurship platform, Orbit / JetPack, enabling entrepreneurs to create their business plans 100x faster.
  • Developed the Startup Tactics entrepreneurship education methodology, book, and educator resources used by hundreds of educators at 200+ schools in 50+ countries.
  • Serial entrepreneur and software engineer.
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Paul Cheek
Book cover: No One Works Here by Paul Cheek
Latest book

No One Works Here

How AI-Driven Enterprises Are Raising the Bar for Business, Leadership, and Competition.

Paul's latest book, recognized by industry leaders as “the definitive blueprint for businesses powered by AI,” argues that the era of Human Time is over. AI agents now operate at system speed, decoupling revenue from headcount and resetting the rules of competition for every legacy organization.

Across 23 chapters in four parts — The Threat, The Changing Landscape, The Opportunities, and The Actions — it lays out an operating system for the AI-Driven Enterprise: the AIDE Maturity Cycle, the Multi-Layered Latency Stack Audit, the Friday Night Test, and the 30-Minute Startup Playbook.

Published by Wiley. Foreword by Henry Ford III.

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What clients say

Trusted by leaders who've seen it work.

I saw snippets of ‘perspective shift’ which is exactly what we wanted. An engaged group of people, who are clearly putting into practice what you shared.
— Senior Vice President
[Paul is] in the top 1% of business creation…
— Founder who raised >$20M
I have never been so happy to approve an invoice.
— Executive event host

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AI transformation?

Engagements range from board-level AI literacy workshops to multi-month or year-long AIDE transformation sprints.

We typically reply within 24 hours. After you reach out, we schedule a 30-minute discovery call.