A KEYNOTE BY SUHIT ANANTULA
RACING
A DIFFERENT
PHYSICS
What Formula 1 Teaches About Building the Co-Intelligent Organisation
A keynote for leaders: why AI is shaking organisations built for a different physics, and how to design the trust to go faster.
- 01MAP
- 02LICENCE
- 03HUMAN & MACHINE
- 04RACE
SUHIT ANANTULA
FOUNDER, HELIX LAB · AUTHOR, The Co-Intelligent Organisation
KEYNOTE · 45 MIN
TEDX-READY 18-MIN CUT
WORKSHOP · PODCAST
CO-INTELLIGENCE
NOT HUMANS
OR AI.
HUMANS WITH AI.
Most organisations were built for a time when intelligence was scarce. Now it is everywhere. The question is no longer how to get intelligence. It is what we do when intelligence is abundant.
Co-intelligence is the answer the book gives: not humans replaced by machines, and not AI bolted onto old structures, but humans with AI, designed together as one team. Formula 1 has already lived through this shift. Its teams turn data, simulation and human judgement into decisions made in seconds, at speed, under pressure.
In this keynote Suhit uses F1 as the laboratory and your organisation as the application. Leaders leave seeing that the scarce resource is no longer intelligence. It is the trust needed to deploy it. And trust can be designed.
“The scarce resource isn’t intelligence anymore. It’s the trust required to deploy it.”THE CO-INTELLIGENT ORGANISATION · THE F1 REVOLUTION
“F1 is the laboratory. Your organisation is the application.”THE CO-INTELLIGENT ORGANISATION · PREFACE
WHY IT MATTERS NOW
- The physics of work changed. AI changes how work flows, the way a rule change rewrites how air flows under a race car.
- Bolting on doesn’t work. Old structures shake when AI-speed work runs through them.
- Position is not permission. Every step up in AI agency has to be earned.
- Trust is the bottleneck. Governance becomes downforce: the grip that lets you go fast safely.
THE TALK IN ONE LINE
INTELLIGENCE IS NOW ABUNDANT, SO TRUST IS THE SCARCE RESOURCE. WIN WITH HUMANS WITH AI, DESIGNED AS ONE TEAM.
THE KEYNOTE IN FOUR ACTS
MAP. LICENCE.
HUMAN & MACHINE.
RACE.
Each act opens with an F1 story, then hands the room a framework from the book. Story first, method second.
- 01MAP
- 02LICENCE
- 03HUMAN & MACHINE
- 04RACE
Act 01
MAP
“WHERE ARE WE RACING?”
THE F1 STORY
When F1 rewrote its aero rules for 2022, Red Bull read the new physics fastest; others bet on concepts the new airflow punished, and their cars porpoised.
Porpoising, in one line: the car bounces violently at speed because it was built for the old physics, not the new one.
Organisations do the same when they bolt AI onto old structures.
THE 9Q GRID
Nine positions, from AI agency (Assist, Augment, Adapt) crossed with the kind of work. Name where your AI work really sits before deciding where it should move.
Act 02
LICENCE
“ARE WE QUALIFIED TO RACE HERE?”
THE F1 STORY
Oscar Piastri won the Formula Renault Eurocup, F3 and F2 titles in successive seasons before reaching F1. Verstappen reached F1 at 17; the FIA then brought in Super Licence points and a minimum age of 18 from 2016. Most organisations need to climb the ladder, not copy the exception.
“Position is not permission. Permission is earned.”
AAA LICENCE + READINESS GATES
Assist, Augment, Adapt: what AI may do at each level. Five Readiness Gates set what you must show before AI gets more agency.
Act 03
HUMAN & MACHINE
“IS OUR MACHINE BUILT FOR THIS?”
THE F1 STORY
Driver and car. Pit wall and data. The strategist reads machine-fed options and makes the call in seconds, and sometimes the right call is to override the plan.
HUMAN & MACHINE TEAMING + 4A
Engine, crew, conductor, container: four systems designed around intelligence flow, not inherited hierarchy. The machine informs; the call stays human.
Act 04
RACE
“HOW DO WE RUN THE RACE?”
THE F1 STORY
Top teams simulate races before the lights go out, so a bold call on the day has already been tested. The book calls it the strategic multiverse: protect the live plan, explore the branches safely.
Close: the moment before lights out. Trust is designed.
HELIX PATH · THE 90-DAY SEASON
A playbook from assessment to action: rehearse many futures safely, commit to one, learn every lap.
THE TOOLS THE ROOM TAKES HOME
ONE MAP. ONE LICENCE.
FIVE GATES.
| STRUCTUREDDEFINED, REPEATABLE WORK | DYNAMICITERATIVE, FEEDBACK-RICH WORK | COMPLEXEMERGENT, AMBIGUOUS TERRAIN | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADAPTAI ACTS; HUMAN GOVERNS | Q3AUTOMATORDelegate structured work to the machine. | Q6OPTIMISERLet AI iterate dynamically toward a target. | Q9 · DIAGONALCONDUCTORGovern adaptive complexity across a field. |
| AUGMENTHUMAN AND AI ITERATE TOGETHER | Q2TACTICIANMake bounded calls inside a fixed frame. | Q5 · DIAGONALPARTNERThink together in mutual iteration. | Q8EXPLORERCo-search ambiguous futures and novel space. |
| ASSISTAI HELPS; HUMAN LEADS | Q1 · DIAGONALOPERATORExecute a known line of work faster. | Q4WEAVERPull dynamic threads into coherence. | Q7NAVIGATOROrient in uncertain, emergent terrain. |
AGENCY ↑ · WORK →
WHERE DOES YOUR AI REALLY SIT?
The Q1 → Q5 → Q9 diagonal is the clean path of co-intelligence, and of rising trust demand.
In Suhit’s view, most AI failure is a diagnosis failure first: organisations try to buy a Q9 outcome with a Q1 trust budget.
ACT 02 · LICENCE
AAA: Assist, Augment, Adapt. Capability must be earned before authority expands. AI helps and the human leads; then human and AI work together; then AI acts and the human governs.
“You cannot buy an ADAPT licence with ASSIST maturity.”THE AAA LICENCE · CH 05
THE FIVE READINESS GATES
SHOW ME THE ARTEFACTS, NOT THE POLICY
- Gate 01PROBLEM CLARITYASSIST → AUGMENT
- Gate 02GOVERNANCE EXERCISEDASSIST → AUGMENT
- Gate 03INTEGRATION RESILIENCEAUGMENT → ADAPT
- Gate 04VALUE MEASUREDAUGMENT → ADAPT
- Gate 05CAPABILITY TRANSFERABLEAUGMENT → ADAPT
ACT 03 · 4A
The 4A method frames the one human–machine design choice each leader takes back to work on Monday.
ACT 04 · HELIX PATH
The 90-day season that turns the map, the licence and the team design into practice: from assessment to action.
24 RACES.
1 CHAMPION.
No team wins the title on race one. They win it by learning faster every weekend.
- TESTLEARN THE NEW CAR
- EARLY SEASONREAD THE DATA, ADJUST
- MID-SEASONUPGRADE AND ITERATE
- RUN-INWHERE DECISIONS BECOME PERMANENT
WHAT THE AUDIENCE LEAVES WITH
FOUR TAKEAWAYS. MONDAY-READY.
FOUR TAKEAWAYS
TAKE INTO THE NEXT MEETING
- 01
Redesign for the new physics. AI changed how work flows. Redesign from first principles instead of bolting AI onto old structures.
- 02
Earn your licence. Map your position on the 9Q Grid, then earn each step through AAA and the five Readiness Gates: problem clarity, governance exercised, integration resilience, value measured, capability transferable.
- 03
Build the human–machine team. Lead like a conductor on the pit wall: let the machine inform, keep the call human, and spend trust carefully.
- 04
Design your race to learn and explore, testing many futures in simulation before you commit.
“Feeling immensely grateful and privileged to be in this space with you, Suhit. You have done the hard, hard work and applied your genius to it — and now you’re making it accessible for people like us.”
WHO THIS KEYNOTE IS FOR
SEVEN AUDIENCES · ONE KEYNOTE
- 01
AI & TECH
PRODUCT, DATA AND ENGINEERING LEADERS“Your AI isn’t failing because of the model. The physics of work changed. Here’s how to redesign for it.”
- 02
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
ACCOUNTING, CONSULTING AND ADVISORY FIRMS“Position is not permission. Here’s how firms earn the licence before AI touches client work.”
- 03
ENTERPRISES
LARGE ORGANISATIONS SCALING AI“Pilots are easy; scale is earned. Map where your AI really sits, then build the team to race it.”
- 04
LEADERSHIP & BOARDS
EXECUTIVES, BOARDS AND DIRECTORS“The pit wall is the new leadership model: humans make the call, machines inform it. Here’s what to see before AI gets the licence to act.”
- 05
PEOPLE & CULTURE / HR
PEOPLE LEADERS AND HR TEAMS“Your people are already working with AI. Here’s how to design the team so humans and machines get better together.”
- 06
PUBLIC SECTOR
FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT“Residents will find the gap between the AI you say you run and the AI you actually run. Here’s how to close it, gate by gate.”
- 07
NFP
CHARITIES AND FOR-PURPOSE ORGANISATIONS“Small team, big mission, no room to lose trust. Here’s how AI can carry the load without risking it.”
WAYS TO BOOK IT
KEYNOTE. 18-MIN CUT.
WORKSHOP. PODCAST.
A 45-minute keynote, with a TEDx-ready 18-minute cut and a 90-minute workshop. Suhit speaks to practitioners in plain English: one story, one idea, one drawing the room remembers.
KEYNOTE
Racing a Different Physics. The full four-act talk: Map, Licence, Human & Machine, Race. Story first, then the frameworks.
- Opens with an F1 story, closes on “the moment before lights out”
- The 9Q Grid drawn live on stage
- Leaves the room with four takeaways and a Monday move
RACING A DIFFERENT PHYSICS
The same title in 18 minutes, built around one idea: we have more intelligence than ever, and we trust it less, but trust can be designed.
- A personal arc from Suhit, then one F1 story
- No frameworks slide
- The 9Q Grid appears once, drawn by hand
MAP IT. GATE IT.
A working session for leadership teams after the keynote, or on its own.
- Each team maps one real AI initiative on the 9Q Grid
- Tests it against the five Readiness Gates
- Leaves with the next step it has earned, and the one it hasn’t
TALKING POINTS
- Intelligence is cheap, trust is scarce, and trust can be designed
- Position is not permission: earning the licence for AI agency
- The pit wall as a leadership model
- Writing a business book in public, one chapter a week
ALSO AVAILABLE
30-minute fireside or panel. A conversation built on the same four acts, for AI, public-sector, for-purpose, leadership and motorsport programs.
TECH RIDER
Standard AV and projector · a clicker · a whiteboard, flip chart or drawing tablet for one live drawing (the 9Q Grid) · lapel or headset mic.
KEYNOTE RUN OF SHOW
45 MIN · STORY FIRST, METHOD SECOND
- OpenRACING A DIFFERENT PHYSICSTHE SCARCE RESOURCE IS TRUST
- Act 01MAPTHE RULE CHANGE · 9Q GRID
- Act 02LICENCETHE JUNIOR LADDER · AAA + GATES
- Act 03HUMAN & MACHINEDRIVER, CAR, PIT WALL · 4A
- Act 04RACEMANY FUTURES · HELIX PATH
- CloseBEFORE LIGHTS OUTTRUST IS DESIGNED
SPEAKER BIO
SUHIT
ANANTULA
STRATEGIST · FOUNDER, HELIX LAB · AUSTRALIA
Suhit Anantula is a strategist and the founder of Helix Lab. He is writing The Co-Intelligent Organisation in public, one chapter a week, using Formula 1 as a laboratory for how humans and AI become one team. He works with leaders in business, government and for-purpose organisations who must decide what AI may do, who answers for it, and what must be earned first. His tools include the 9Q Grid, AAA (Assist, Augment, Adapt), the Readiness Gates, the 4A method and the Helix Path. He writes the newsletter The Helix Loop.
Author of The Helix Moment; co-author of The Policy Playbook (with Catherine Althaus and Pia Andrews); former senior roles in the SA Department of the Premier and Cabinet.
“You’re like a steam train – so loved hearing you speak”
MC INTRODUCTION · 50 WORDS
“Our next speaker is Suhit Anantula, founder of Helix Lab and author of The Co-Intelligent Organisation, a book that uses Formula 1 to show how humans and AI become one team. He helps leaders in business, government and for-purpose organisations design the trust to go faster. Please welcome Suhit Anantula.”
THE BOOK
THE CO-INTELLIGENT ORGANISATION
Racing a Different Physics. Fourteen chapters in four parts: Map, Licence, Human & Machine, Race. Written in public, a new chapter every week.
CHAPTERS 1–5 PUBLISHED
HELIX LAB ●
Suhit’s practice. Helix Lab works with leaders deciding what AI may do, who answers for it, and what must be earned first, using the book’s frameworks on real portfolios.
9Q · AAA · READINESS GATES · 4A · HELIX PATH
GOOD DESIGN AWARD,
GOLD WINNER
FOR PODCAST HOSTS
BRING SUHIT ON THE SHOW.
SUGGESTED EPISODE TOPICS
- 01
Racing a different physics: what F1 teaches us about trusting AI. Intelligence is cheap, trust is scarce, and trust can be designed.
- 02
The co-intelligent organisation. Not humans or AI, but humans with AI, designed as one team. The pit wall as a leadership model.
- 03
Map, Licence, Human & Machine, Race. The four stages from the book, from the 9Q Grid to the 90-day Season.
- 04
Position is not permission: leading AI adoption. How leaders earn the licence for more AI agency, gate by gate.
- 05
Writing a business book in public, one chapter a week.
HOST-READY BIO
Suhit Anantula is a strategist and the founder of Helix Lab, based in Australia. He is the author of The Co-Intelligent Organisation, a book he is writing in public at one chapter a week, which uses Formula 1 as a laboratory for how humans and AI become one team. He is also the author of The Helix Moment and co-author of The Policy Playbook, and has held senior roles in the SA Department of the Premier and Cabinet. Good Design Award, Gold Winner.
LIGHTS OUT AND AWAY WE GO
BOOK
THE TALK.
Book Racing a Different Physics for your 2027 program. Email suhit@thehelixlab.ai with your event, date, audience size and format (keynote, workshop or panel), and I’ll reply with availability and fees.
FEES ON ENQUIRY · AUSTRALIA-BASED, AVAILABLE ACROSS AUSTRALIA, NZ AND INTERNATIONALLY · VIRTUAL OPTION · 45-MIN KEYNOTE, TEDX-READY 18-MIN CUT, 90-MIN WORKSHOP
- READ THE BOOK
- suhitanantula.com/books/co-intelligent
- THE 9Q GRID
- suhitanantula.com/9Q
- HELIX LAB
- thehelixlab.ai
- linkedin.com/in/suhitanantula
- PREFER TO TALK FIRST?
- Book a short discovery call (Calendly) →
- SAMPLE CHAPTER · THE AAA LICENCE
- Read Chapter 5 free online →
Download the speaker kit (PDF, 650 KB)
FROM THE ROOM
“I’ve listened and then watched your immersion session. Top class and very exciting! Like somebody said in the chat at immersion, it’s like a new language.”
SUHIT ANANTULA · HELIX LAB
RACING A DIFFERENT PHYSICS · SPEAKER KIT · OCT 2026