AI Leaders 100
The leaders with the AI Advantage. One hundred people who changed how their team works with AI. Put forward by their peers. Judged on evidence.
- places on the list
- 100
- Founding Leaders, chosen by the judges
- 10
- entry fees, sponsored places or self-nominations
- 0
Recognition you cannot buy.
A peer puts you forward
A colleague, client or board member names you and says why in two sentences. You cannot name yourself.
You show one piece of real work
Accept with LinkedIn, then capture one method you handed to AI in a short guided session. It becomes your entry and your public profile.
Independent judges decide
Every entry is scored against the same published criteria. The panel names the Founding Leaders from the 100.
Long list. The 100. Founding Leaders.
Each stage carries its own seal for your profile and a public page for your entry.
The long list
Every nominated leader with a real role and a submitted entry. Published 15 December.
The 100
The hundred strongest entries against the published criteria. Revealed 7 January at Lab Live.
Founding Leaders
Ten leaders chosen by the judges from the 100. Named 4 February. There is only one founding year.
Key dates
- 3 DecNominations open
- 11 DecNominations close
- 15 DecLong list published
- 7 JanThe 100 revealed at Lab Live
- 4 FebFounding Leaders named
Four levers. Enter under one.
The same four levers we use in every diagnostic. Choose the one where your evidence is strongest.
People
You changed how your team works day to day, and they kept working that way.
Process
You captured a method that lived in one person's head. It now runs the same way every time.
Tools
You put the right tool in the right hands, and can show what it replaced.
Products
You shipped something customers use that would not exist without AI.
An independent panel.
Leadership, academia and business media. The panel is announced before nominations open.
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The rules
No entry fee.
Not to enter, not to be listed, not to collect.
No sponsored places.
Nobody buys a category or a seat at the table.
No self-nominations.
Someone else has to say it first.
nocodelab.ai does not vote.
We run the process. The judges make the call.
The AI Advantage Index 2027.
What leaders actually handed to AI this year. Every entry on the long list, anonymised and read together. Released 4 February. Everyone on the long list receives it first.
You already know who belongs on it.
Nominating takes two sentences, and they will know it came from you. Join The Lab newsletter and we will tell you the moment nominations open.