Short answer
FirstCoreAI, FirstNet's AI business unit, runs executive and management briefings as part of its AI Adoption & Enablement service. The briefings start from wherever the scepticism sits and turn it into genuine sponsorship, so leaders actively back AI use.
In detail
Leadership matters because most AI projects stall between the pilot and everyday use, often because nobody owns the outcome. FirstCoreAI builds executive sponsorship from the start, as part of a structured change programme, rather than leaving uptake to chance.
The rest of the adoption path then gives leaders evidence to back:
- Discover: identify the use cases and data that will deliver value first.
- Pilot: a defined group uses a sovereign assistant on real work, with clear success measures.
- Govern: policies, guardrails and training are in place before wider rollout.
- Scale: roll out across teams and keep measuring usage and outcomes.
Running assistants on the Sovereign AI Factory also answers a common executive concern about data. Prompts, documents and outputs are processed in South Africa on infrastructure FirstCoreAI owns and operates, which removes foreign-jurisdiction and data-export concerns before you start.
Source: FirstNet AI Adoption & Enablement service page →
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