October 2026

Why I'm starting The ABADA AI Briefing

A practitioner's view of AI for business leaders: what changed, what it means, and what's worth doing now.

AI is changing faster than most leadership teams can track. Every month brings new models and new agent features from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta, along with a lot of noise about what they mean.

I’ve spent years helping organizations decide which work is worth automating, and then automating it. The question leaders ask hasn’t changed: what should we actually do now? Most answers are written for large enterprises with big budgets and consulting teams. This blog answers it for leaders of small companies and community organizations, once or twice a month.

What I’ll write about

  • Latest in AI. A monthly roundup of what the major labs shipped, and why it matters for business.
  • Agentic AI. Use cases for AI agents that plan, act and hand off to people.
  • Healthcare AI. Applications in hospitals and health systems.
  • AI Strategy. Where AI fits, what to fund and what to wait on.
  • AI Transformation. Moving from pilots to production.
  • Process Discovery. How to tell which processes are ready to automate, and what they’re worth.

How each post works

Every post opens with a short summary for readers who have one minute. Every claim links to its source. And when something isn’t ready for real work yet, I’ll say so plainly.

Say hello

Have a topic you’d like covered, or a process you suspect could run itself? Write to me at hello@abada.ai. New posts are shared on LinkedIn the day they go live.

Monal Shah

Founder of ABADA.AI. Writes about agentic AI, process discovery and AI strategy for leaders of small companies and community organizations.