Plan · Updated July 15, 2026

The First 90 Days

The starter plan for a sub-100-person biotech. Not a roadmap, one quarter you can run that raises your weakest pillar a level, then repeats.

Before you start

This is the quarter that follows the first move, not a replacement for it. If you have not yet picked one workflow, one owner, and two questions, start there and come back. This plan assumes you are ready to make that first move real and build a few more around it.

Two rules hold the whole thing together. Give the work one owner, not a committee. And aim to raise your weakest pillar one level, not to touch all three. Ninety days is enough for exactly that, and no more, and that is the point.

Days 1 to 15: Name the owner and score yourself

Do not launch anything yet. Spend the first two weeks getting honest and getting an owner.

Give it one owner. Not a new hire. One person who already has the trust of the room and is curious about the tools, at roughly 20% of their time. The role is a function before it is a job.
Score the company. Run the Permission, People, Programs Scorecard with your exec team, out loud. Your lowest pillar is your target for the quarter.
Write the one page. Put the AI Use Policy in place: two data tiers, a few duties. Permission should take an afternoon, not a task force.

Days 16 to 45: Ship one workflow

Now make the first move real, where people can see it.

Pick the workflow a respected person would change their Tuesday over. Not the biggest problem. The one where a win will be noticed and believed.
One owner, two questions. Is this the workflow that matters, and did it actually get better. Keep it that simple.
Open the safe door. Give everyone secure self-serve access for Tier 2 work, with education, not a project. A surprising amount of value arrives with no program at all.

Days 46 to 75: Turn one into a few

The first win earns the next. Spend this stretch on adoption, not on scope.

Let the person you helped bring their bigger idea. Solve small, and they bring you big. This is how momentum compounds.
Recruit two ambassadors. The respected peers in other functions who will do it in front of their teams. Behavior spreads by imitation, not by memo.
Route new requests on purpose. As they arrive, run each through the five moves. Resist the platform purchase. You have not earned it yet, and you may never need it.

Days 76 to 90: Score again and set the next quarter

Close the loop, then open the next one.

Re-run the scorecard. Did your weakest pillar move a level? If yes, the quarter worked. If no, you now know where the resistance really lives.
Pick the next pillar. Whichever is lowest now. Not the one you like to show off.
Put the next 90 days on the calendar. This is not a one-time sprint. It is the cadence, and the company that keeps running it is the one that stays AI-native.

Ninety days from now you will not be finished, and that is correct. You will be one level higher on the pillar that was holding you back, with an owner, a few wins, and a habit. Then you run it again.