Respondents
9
01 / 11Pre-Workshop Survey · April 2026
The AI Leadership
Pulse at P1 Dental
Nine leaders. Nineteen questions. One strategic moment — captured two weeks before the Indianapolis workshop. What follows is what the room itself is telling us, in its own numbers and in its own words.
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02 / 11Maturity Stage
Half of leaders say AI is still new at P1 — but a third are already piloting, and two believe you're scaling.
The room is not uniform. When asked which stage best describes P1 Dental today, leadership is split three ways. That spread — "Awareness" all the way through "Operational" — is itself the first datapoint: you don't yet share a single story about where you are.
Where leaders disagree on the diagnosis, they'll struggle to agree on the prescription. Aligning on "where we are" is step zero for any roadmap.
Awareness — Interest is growing, but real adoption is minimal
4/ 9
CEO, VP Finance, Prairie Capital, Sr. Dir Ops
Activation — Early pilots underway to test value and learn fast
3/ 9
COO, CPO, CFO
Operational — Scaling AI at production level across the org
2/ 9
CCO, VP Hygiene Ops
03 / 11Competitive Positioning
How P1 sees itself against the market.
Five of nine leaders believe P1 is behind or significantly behind peers on AI adoption. Three feel at parity. Only one leader — from clinical leadership — sees P1 as slightly ahead. This is a room that knows the market is moving without them, but isn't yet panicked.
The honest read: a humble, self-aware starting posture. More useful than false confidence — and a posture that makes a prioritized roadmap land.
1
Significantly behind
4
Slightly behind
3
About the same
1
Slightly ahead
Behind peersAt parityAhead of peers
04 / 11AI Vision Clarity
Average score: 2.9 / 10. The strategy room isn't clear on the strategy yet.
Rated on a 0–10 scale, seven of nine leaders gave P1's long-term AI vision a score of 3 or below. Two leaders — the COO and CCO — stand out at 7. Everyone else sees ambiguity, not direction.
This is the single most actionable number in the survey. A shared, documented AI vision is the cheapest, fastest lever P1 leadership can pull this quarter.
CEO
2
CFO
3
COO
7
CCO
7
CPO
0
VP Fin
1
VP Hyg
3
Sr. Dir Ops
1
Prairie Investor
2
0.0/10
AI Vision Clarity · 9 Respondents
05 / 11Organizational Foundation
The foundation check. Seven pillars of AI readiness, mapped across the room.
Each leader rated P1's readiness across seven components — Leadership, Data, Security, Budget, Culture, Legacy Tech, Processes. Green means "Strong." Red means "Very Poorly." The picture is consistent: the human and strategic layers are ahead; the technical and governance layers are behind.
CEO
CFO
COO
CCO
CPO
VP
Finance
Finance
VP
Hygiene
Hygiene
Sr. Dir
Ops
Ops
Prairie
Investor
Investor
Very Poorly
Needs Improvement
Adequate
Strong
Foundation Strength by Pillar
Share of leaders rating each pillar Adequate or Strong.
Culture and leadership are pockets of strength — especially from clinical leadership. But data infrastructure, security governance, and budget are nearly unanimously flagged as needing work. That's where a roadmap should concentrate its first dollars.
06 / 11Biggest Concern
"We don't know where to start."
This echoes the phrase used on the April 9 pre-call ("six AI vendor emails a day"). The survey confirms it's not just one person's view — it's how the whole leadership team feels. That's actually good news: you don't have seven different problems to solve. You have one.
Leaders selected up to three concerns each.
07 / 11Where The Upside Lives
100% consensus on where AI pays off first.
Every single leader — all nine — selected Operational Efficiency as a top area where AI can create competitive advantage in the next 12 months. Eight of nine added Data Analysis / BI. Five added Customer Experience. Nothing else clears majority.
A unanimous answer is rare. The survey is practically handing you the three lanes of your roadmap: operate better, see better, serve better.
08 / 11What Would Unlock Adoption
The adoption unlocks are organizational, not technical.
Asked what would most accelerate adoption, leaders converged on four enablers — approved tools, training, internal champions, and exec mandate. Notice what's not on the list: "hire an AI expert." P1's leaders don't believe this gets solved by a single outside hire.
It gets solved by clearing the path — telling teams which tools are safe, what good looks like, and that leadership expects them to use them.
09 / 11Already In Motion
You're not starting from zero. Six of nine leaders already named the same win.
When asked for a real AI use case P1 has implemented or is implementing, the same answer came back from two-thirds of the room: VideaHealth — the AI-powered radiograph analysis tool running across P1 practices. That's a shared success story you can build on.
Clinical · Shared Win
VideaHealth Radiograph AI
Cited by 6 of 9 leaders across functions — from CEO to CFO to Hygiene Ops. Already in production across P1 practices. The template for "what scaling AI looks like here."
Finance / Data
Power BI + Data Lake
Finance-led reporting automation — multiple source systems connected. Not strictly AI today, but the plumbing that makes AI feasible tomorrow.
Operations
AI Patient Messaging & Reporting
Operations-led: AI-assisted patient communication and automated operational summaries around schedule utilization and production trends. Quiet groundwork for RCM scale.
Workflows Leaders Most Want AI to Improve
×4Revenue cycle & claims
×4Reporting & BI
×3Scheduling & gap management
×2Clinical notes & narratives
×2Patient communication & financial workflows
×2Process documentation
×2Project management / internal comms
×1Doctor recruiting
×1Payer contract analysis
×1Data analytics & security
×1Payroll / HRIS
×1Confirmation calls
10 / 11Leadership Transformation Readiness
The most honest question on the survey. And the most revealing answer.
Leaders were asked: "Our leadership is ready and willing to challenge and redesign roles, processes, and decision-making models when AI offers a better way forward."
Strongly DisagreeDisagreeNeutralAgreeStrongly Agree
Two-thirds of the room is neutral. Not opposed — but not yet convinced leadership will go as far as redesigning work. The job of this workshop is to move "neutral" into "agree" by showing the room a concrete, credible, prioritized roadmap. Not by asking them to be braver — by giving them something worth being brave about.
11 / 11What The Data Is Telling Us
Five signals. One workshop. A first-five, second-five, all-others roadmap.
The survey is unusually coherent. The gaps are real but the consensus is remarkable. Five insights set up the day:
44%
You're earlier than you'd like — but self-aware.
Leaders rate themselves Awareness-stage and slightly behind peers. That's the correct diagnosis. It means you'll trust a prioritized roadmap instead of reinventing one.
2.9/10
No shared AI vision yet.
Cheapest, highest-leverage fix on the table. A documented, communicated North Star this quarter would move this number faster than any tool purchase.
100%
Unanimous on the upside.
Operational Efficiency is the universal answer. Pair it with Data/BI (8 of 9) and Customer Experience (5 of 9), and you have the three lanes of the roadmap.
7/9
"Where do we start?" is the real problem.
Not a technology problem. A prioritization problem. That's precisely what the workshop delivers — a "first five, second five, all others" list with named owners.
6/9
VideaHealth is proof you can scale AI here.
Two-thirds of the room independently named it as a live use case. Use it as the reference pattern — governance model, adoption curve, training muscle — for the next ten.
2/3
Leadership readiness is "neutral, not opposed."
The workshop's job isn't to motivate — it's to de-risk. Concrete roadmap + credible sequencing + named POCs moves neutral to agree.
From awareness to activation — on April 24, in Indianapolis.
P1 Dental · Prairie Capital · AI Workshop 2026