AI isn’t a strategy.
It’s how you accelerate yours.

Mindspan Labs helps leaders identify where AI can create the most value, establish the governance to deploy it effectively, and build the organizational capability to scale what works.

Jeremy Korst

Founded by technology veteran and AI thought leader Jeremy Korst, Mindspan Labs combines decades of operating experience with original research into the organizational conditions that make AI adoption successful.

Turn AI vision into velocity.

The AI Value Gap

Organizations spent more than $700 billion on AI software and services in 2025.

Most of them aren’t seeing substantial value yet.The hard part is strategic clarity and organizational readiness.It’s the AI Value Gap.

AI spend: Gartner, 2026.

20%

of organizations capture 74% of AI’s economic value. The gap is not evenly distributed.

PwC · 2026

5%

of companies sit in the top AI maturity band. Most are still building the foundation.

BCG · 2025

The Framework

Value is created inside-out.

The AI Transformation Flywheel. A Core and three rings, ordered by leverage. People at the core. Strategic Clarity setting direction. Governance as organizational muscle. Technology & Data as table stakes.

  • Core · People & OrganizationThe ring the others depend on
  • Ring 1 · Strategic ClarityDirection-setting layer
  • Ring 2 · GovernanceOrganizational muscle
  • Outer Ring · Technology & DataCapability layer · table stakes
Explore the Flywheel →
Outer Ring · Technology & Data EcosystemRing 2 · Governance & Accountable ExecutionRing 1 · Strategic Clarity & Value CeilingPeople & OrganizationCOREof AI value

What we do

Mindspan Labs turns AI vision into velocity.

We help organizations accelerate the strategy they already have, rather than selling them a new one. We solve the organizational readiness problem that makes AI initiatives fail.

01

Strategic Clarity

Diagnostic + framework. Where AI actually creates value for your business — and where it won’t.

02

Organizational Readiness

Workforce, culture, process. In BCG’s 10-20-70 model, 70 percent of AI transformation effort goes to people, organization, and processes.

03

Execution Architecture

Governance, measurement, scaling. The muscle to move from pilots to production.

Jeremy Korst, Founder of Mindspan Labs
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Most organizations focus on the visible 30%. The leaders invest in everything underneath — and that’s where the unlock lives.
Jeremy KorstFounder · Mindspan Labs · ex-Microsoft, T-Mobile, Avalara

See where you stand

You can’t close a gap you can’t see.

The AI Readiness Diagnostic scores your organization across every ring of the Flywheel in 12 minutes, and shows exactly where your value is leaking, and why.

Grounded in more than 20 independent research publications and four waves of Wharton-GBK research, which our founder co-authors.