Article · Greg Howell · November 7, 2026
Two meetings to start with: the Claude jam and the AI committee
Two of the most important things you can do when you start working with AI are to set up two recurring meetings. Alternate them: one week the jam, the next week the committee.
Week one · everyone with a license
The Claude jam
- People share their work
- The group troubleshoots problems together
- Everybody learns from each other
- Where policy is introduced and explained
Week two · 3 to 5 people
The AI committee
- Owns governance and architecture
- Manages the build against the roadmap
- Plans how to spread capability and knowledge across the organization
- Where policy is developed
The Claude jam is for everyone with a license. People bring what they built, show what worked and what didn’t, and solve problems as a group. It is also where you introduce and explain policy, so the rules reach the people who use the tools.
The AI committee is three to five people. Pick your own name for it: steering committee, AI council, whatever fits. This group works on governance and architecture, manages the build against the roadmap, and decides how to spread the capability and knowledge across the organization. Policy is developed here, then shared at the jam.
“The jam is everybody with a license. The committee is three to five people. Policy is developed in one and spoken to in the other.”