Frequently Asked Questions

Kai Roses is solving for the net positive impact of AI on culture and commerce through two key initiatives:

• Consulting - AI Competency: We help companies build AI competency, providing guidance to develop internal talent, governance, and infrastructure for responsible AI adoption
• Product - Creator Tools: Our product strategy centers on creator data sovereignty and digital property rights, ensuring creators retain control, attribution, and economic upside as AI reshapes culture and commerce. We build scalable solutions that deliver essential products for creators as new technologies emerge.

We serve three primary audiences:

• Creators: Artists, designers, writers, and anyone building intellectual and digital work who need tools for organizing, protecting, preserving, and monetizing their creations
• C-level Executives and Board Members: Leaders navigating AI-driven business transformation who need strategic guidance
• Fortune 500 Organizations: Companies seeking to build AI competency and scale responsibly, whether build or buy oriented

AI Competency is the knowledge, skills, and values needed to use, understand, and implement AI responsibly.

Kai Roses AI Competency consulting guides C-level Executives and Board Members through their business evolution as they integrate, operationalize, and scale AI responsibly. Our areas of expertise include:

• Value Creation & Measurable Outcomes: Defining clear metrics and ROI frameworks to ensure AI initiatives deliver tangible business value
• Governance Model for Sustainable AI Competency: Establishing robust governance structures that enable responsible AI adoption while maintaining agility
• Workforce, AI Literacy & Infrastructure Investments: Building internal competency through strategic talent development and technology planning
• IP, Security & Responsible AI Practice: Protecting intellectual property, ensuring data security, and implementing ethical AI practices

We offer flexible engagement options to meet your organization's needs:

• Workshops: 1 to 5 days of focused, hands-on sessions
• Competency Assessment: 2 to 8 weeks of comprehensive evaluation
• Proof of Value: 12 to 16 weeks to demonstrate measurable AI impact
• Competency Implementation: 12 to 18 months for full-scale AI capability development

Our leadership has delivered AI competencies across multiple industries including:

• Telecommunications: Enterprise-scale AI at Verizon, focusing on personalizing customer experience, risk and bias mitigation, and model operations automation
• Retail: Data science leadership at Target during transformative business initiatives
• Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG): Advanced analytics and statistical modeling at IRI/Circana

AI-native interfaces. Digital-to-physical pipelines. Open standards. We build products for creators who refuse to rent their future from a platform:

• Kai Roses Website: A website that talks. Powered by Gemini Live, visitors can explore everything Kai Roses offers through natural conversation in 40+ languages. No clicking, no searching, just speaking in your native language. Architected for AI agents, not just browsers. Our GEO-native foundation ensures we're discoverable by the systems shaping how people find information tomorrow.
• ASHITA NO KAZE: ASHITA NO KAZE is an interactive, collaborative, generative world-building project developed to explore the possibilities of today's AI and blockchain tools. A cutting-edge experience that included interactive storytelling through a RAG chatbot, on-demand creation of unique generative art pieces, breaking down language barriers with AI-powered translation, seamless preservation, attribution, and ownership of generative art on blockchain.
• SKATEBORP: What if your digital collectibles could become something new? SKATEBORP lets you design 3D skateboards from assets you already own, mint them onchain, and soon, get a real fingerboard shipped to your door. Digital ownership, made tangible.
• Rara Avis: Rarity scores shouldn't be a surprise after mint. Rara Avis is an open-source standard for calculating NFT rarity before you launch, so you can design with scarcity in mind, not discover it later on a marketplace that can't even explain their rankings. Statistically rigorous, privacy-first, and runs entirely in your browser.

Creator data sovereignty is the foundational principle behind everything we build at Kai Roses. As AI reshapes culture and commerce, creators must retain control, attribution, and economic upside over their work.

Creator data sovereignty means:

• Owned Data: Creators maintain ownership of their creative works, data, and digital identities
• Verifiable Identity: Provenance and attribution are preserved through verifiable systems
• Consent-Driven IP: Creators decide how their work is used, by whom, and under what terms
• Economic Upside: Creators retain the economic benefits of their intellectual property as AI creates new value

By grounding our products in these principles, we enable both creators and enterprises to participate in AI's value creation responsibly and sustainably. This is how we solve for the net positive impact of AI on culture and commerce.

The Kai Roses Foundation effort supports AI literacy and responsible implementation, grounded in creator data sovereignty as a core principle for ethical and sustainable use of AI. We drive AI literacy through partnerships, education, speaking engagements, and publications.

Our Chief AI Officer, Meghna Sinha, holds distinguished fellowships:

• AI2030, Distinguished Fellow: AI 2030 is a global initiative harnessing the transformative power of AI to benefit humanity while minimizing its potential negative impact. Focused on Responsible AI, AI for All, and AI for Good.

• UC Irvine Center For Digital Transformation, Senior Industry Fellow: The Center for Digital Transformation (CDT) addresses strategic issues at the intersection of business and technology in the age of AI, researching sustainable AI competency and the societal and economic impact of AI-driven workforce augmentation.

There are several ways to engage with Kai Roses:

• AI Consulting: Contact us to discuss workshops, assessments, proof of value projects, or full competency implementation
• Product Partnerships: Reach out to explore collaboration on creator tools and digital property rights solutions
• Speaking & Advisory: Inquire about speaking engagements, advisory roles, or thought leadership contributions

Irrespective of build vs. buy orientation, companies need to plan for talent, governance, and infrastructure above and beyond their existing capabilities. AI competency ensures:

• Sustainable competitive advantage through internal AI competencies
• Responsible and ethical AI adoption aligned with organizational values
• Risk mitigation through proper governance and oversight
• Measurable business outcomes and ROI from AI investments
• Workforce readiness and AI literacy across the organization

Kai Roses uniquely combines:

• Proven Enterprise Experience: Over 26 years of responsible, enterprise-scale AI transformations across Fortune 50 companies with measurable billion-dollar business impact
• Creator-Centric Approach: Deep commitment to creator data sovereignty and digital property rights
• Multidisciplinary Perspective: Bridging media, sport, blockchain, retail, telco, and data science
• Human-Centered Vision: Ensuring AI works for both business and society through ethical and responsible practices
• Research & Academic Ties: Active involvement in AI research and education through industry fellowships