Get Proof
Where most wing it with correlation and "efficiency," we care about causality, about what's effective. Where others dodge accountability, we make it explicit.
Welcome to Get Proof — a blog for C-suite leaders, board members, and transformation architects who understand that we’ve crossed a very important threshold. In a post-Delaware 2023 world, where fiduciary duty now pierces the executive veil, and AI reveals the unseen 70% of every decision’s impact, leadership must evolve—or be replaced.
I'm Mark Stouse. I speak CEO, CFO, CRO, CMO, and CDAO. The result is that I’m a living, walking Venn Diagram, a “UN translator” for business teams struggling to transform. Jesuit thinkers taught me to see problems Socratically and polymathically because the challenges we face aren’t pure plays and having the right question is often more important than getting the right answer. I use data and causal operating systems to assess, test, prove, and recalibrate the way we react to Reality.
This is not theory. This is hard-won insight from boardrooms, courtrooms, and transformation frontlines.
Over the past decade, I've not just worked with global C-leaders, I’ve been one. I’ve watched traditional B2B GTM collapse under its own weight, and helped pioneer Causal AI-enabled, fiduciary-grade governance and growth. I am a strategist, but I don’t pull it out of my ear or my intuition.
Here’s what you’ll find here:
Causal Governance: How AI is reshaping fiduciary risk, oversight, and legal exposure.
GTM Reconstruction: Why most B2B growth models are failing, and how to rebuild them around causal impact.
CEO Survival Playbooks: Guidance for leaders navigating AI-induced transparency, shareholder pressure, and system collapse.
Field Notes: Real-world examples from pilots, lawsuits, investor standoffs, and executive interviews (names protected, truths unflinching).
Cultural Drift and Course Correction: How to lead when visibility, not intuition, is the new advantage.
This is a space for those who want to lead the transformation, not be consumed by it. If you're looking for PR-safe takes and AI cheerleading, this isn't it. But stuff like PR and AI are part of the indispensable realities of the next 20 years.
If you're ready to think causally, act accountably, and reshape leadership from the ground up—let’s begin.