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The shift

How AI is changing the VP Strategy role

In 2026, AI handles the heavy lifting of market research, competitor teardowns, and financial scenario modeling that used to take a strategy team days. VP Strategy roles now spend less time gathering and summarizing data and more time pressure-testing assumptions and aligning leadership. Drafting board decks, synthesizing customer interviews, and stress-testing growth plans are increasingly first-drafted by AI and refined by humans.

What AI can take off your plate

  • First-draft market and competitor research with citations
  • Summarizing earnings calls, analyst reports, and long filings
  • Building and explaining initial financial scenario models
  • Turning rough outlines into structured board and leadership decks
  • Synthesizing customer and stakeholder interview transcripts into themes

What stays distinctly human

  • Deciding which bets the company actually makes and which it walks away from
  • Reading the room and aligning a divided leadership team
  • Judging when data is too thin to trust and pushing for better
  • Owning accountability for the strategy and its outcomes
  • Building trust with the CEO, board, and business unit leaders
Tools

Five AI tools for VP Strategys

ChatGPT (GPT-4o / o1)
A VP Strategy uses it to draft strategy memos, summarize earnings calls, and stress-test a market entry thesis against counterarguments.
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Claude (Anthropic)
Useful for analyzing long documents like 10-Ks, analyst reports, and customer interview transcripts in a single pass and pulling out themes.
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Perplexity
Used for fast, cited market and competitor research where you need source links you can verify before putting a number in a deck.
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Microsoft Copilot in Excel
A VP Strategy uses it to build and explain scenario models, surface trends in financials, and generate formulas from plain language.
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Gamma
Turns a strategy outline or memo into a structured first-draft deck for board and leadership reviews.
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Prompts

Five prompts to try today

Paste these into Claude or ChatGPT and replace the bracketed parts with your own details.

1. Market entry teardown
Act as a strategy advisor. We are considering entering [market/segment]. Lay out the top 5 risks, the 3 strongest reasons to enter, key incumbents, and what would have to be true for us to win. Flag any assumptions you are uncertain about.
2. Competitor move analysis
Analyze this announcement from [competitor]: [paste text]. Explain what it signals about their strategy, how it affects our position in [market], and 3 possible responses with tradeoffs for each.
3. Board narrative draft
Draft a one-page strategy narrative for our board covering [topic]. Audience is non-operators. Include the situation, the decision we are recommending, the alternatives we rejected, and the expected outcome over [timeframe].
4. Scenario stress test
Here is our growth plan assuming [key assumptions]. Build 3 scenarios: base, downside, and upside. For each, state the trigger conditions, the revenue impact, and the early indicator we should watch.
5. Interview synthesis
Below are notes from [number] customer interviews: [paste]. Identify the recurring themes, the strongest verbatim quotes, where customers disagree, and 3 strategic implications for our roadmap.
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Turn a blank page into a solid first draft

The move that gets you past the hardest part of any task — starting. Works for an email, a plan, a report, a tricky reply. Free, no login.

ChatGPT  FREE  a free AI assistant that drafts, rewrites, and thinks through problems with you

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Go to chatgpt.com (the free tier is fine) and describe what you need in plain words. Give it the goal, the audience, and any facts it should use:

I need to write [what]. It's for [who], and the goal is [what you want them to do or understand]. Here are the key points: [paste your rough notes]. Draft it in a clear, direct tone. Ask me anything that's missing first.
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It drafts. Now make it yours — push back in the same chat:

Make it shorter and less formal. Cut anything that sounds generic. Keep the part about [X].

You go from staring at nothing to editing a real draft in two minutes. Editing is always easier than starting.

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