Yvonne Prang led global rewards at McDonald's for over 90,000 employees across 16 countries, and is now VP, Group Rewards & Mobility at Swissport. She also keeps a digital board, and she walked me through it on the Range Podcast. It's a team of AI agents, each built with particular skills and a knowledge base, and she gives them names because it makes a proper conversation easier.

Meet the board

Selena is the strategist. Max is the M&A specialist, and flags things like an EBITDA multiple outside the usual range. Frank Finance is her CFO, the one she asks whether free cash flow is enough. Carmen is her Chief People Officer, who asks her questions back. Between them the agents tell her which question she hasn't answered and which angle she hasn't looked at, and she says the work gets better with each loop.

She pushes back on them. She tells an agent she doesn't believe something, asks where it got that and what the reasoning is, and describes the board as more a challenger team than one that does what she tells it. Something that used to take her days now takes hours, or even still a day, and she says the quality is much better. She isn't sure how much time that really saves, because she puts it back into cross-checking and keeping her AI literacy up.

Why she trusts it

I asked her what makes a board like that reliable enough to take to a real board. She tells each agent what good looks like and what not to do, which she thinks is the more important part. She asks for a confidence level every time, and for a list of sources that she checks herself. She also cross-challenges, pulling in a second agent to verify what the first one did.

Each agent has knowledge documents she loaded, and she refines them often. When an answer isn't what she wanted, she gives one of her agents the current document or prompt along with the problem and asks how to improve it. She also keeps her own judgement in the loop. She says she knows what good looks like, and when something doesn't feel right she may go and research it herself in Perplexity before challenging the agent.

Yvonne points her board at strategy, deals and finance questions. The decision on your desk is a comp proposal heading for committee, where the CFO, counsel and the chair are all looking for the hole.

The Comp Committee Challenge Board gives you five of those seats to run it past first. They're the CFO, the CHRO, employment counsel, the employee voice and the RemCo chair. Each attacks your proposal from its own seat and comes back with its top three objections, the one question it can't answer, and the evidence that would change its mind. Paste a short summary of the proposal and one seat's prompt into whatever AI you already have open, or paste all five and ask it to flag where the seats disagree.

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