Chair Prep Brief
ConceptPre-meeting briefing for every Chair: what each member is carrying into the room, open threads, what surfaced last session.
Every month, 45,000 executives describe their hardest business problems in confidence, and experienced Chairs help shape the decisions that follow. The sequence — Situation, Counsel, Decision, Outcome — repeated across six decades, is the rarest training signal in business.
The asset is invisible today. Between monthly meetings, members lose access to the wisdom of their own group. New members don't benefit from what past members learned. Chairs can't systematically surface patterns across their group or across the network.
The Chair relationship is Vistage's irreplaceable asset. The question is how to make every Chair as effective as your best Chair, at scale.
The AI layer that changes this does not exist yet. Ridgemark is building it.
Pre-meeting briefing for every Chair: what each member is carrying into the room, open threads, what surfaced last session.
Real-time support during live Issue Processing: clarifying questions the group hasn't asked, frameworks that fit, analogous cases from the network.
Every member's running context — decisions, commitments, 90-day priorities, unresolved tensions. Carries forward across Chairs and years.
Your Chair is there once a month. This is there the other 28 days — loaded with 90-day commitments, the group's prior counsel, the frameworks your Chair is already teaching.
A 5-minute AI-powered read on any business, with a branded report. A warm-up asset every Chair could send to prospective members.
Industry-specific advisory assets for the verticals your members run — construction, manufacturing, healthcare, distribution, professional services, financial services.
The Situation → Counsel → Decision → Outcome pattern, made searchable. Anonymized, governance-first, shaped by 65 years of peer advisory.
What does the network know? Benchmarks, trending issues, emerging patterns — surfaced from aggregate activity without exposing any individual conversation.
Early indicators of member disengagement — participation, sentiment, follow-through — flagged privately for Chair attention.
The hardest part of this isn't the model. It's the governance.
Every capability on this page rests on a small number of architectural commitments. Member data stays inside Vistage's infrastructure. Chairs govern what their group contributes to the shared layer. Anonymization is the default, not a setting. Consent is explicit, not assumed.
The AI layer compounds inside Vistage's walls, not ours. That's what makes this an unlock, not an extraction.
This is the asset no AI company can build — because they don't have the conversations.
Built by operators. Currently in preview with a small group of partners.