Let me paint a quick scene. It is a Tuesday morning in March. The annual general meeting of a Nifty 50 company is two weeks away. The board has spent six months on a thoughtful, intentional decision to delay CEO succession by a year — because the company is mid-way through a major acquisition and continuity matters. They have explained the reasoning in earnings calls, investor letters, and the proxy statement. Somewhere in a server in New York, an AI system ingests that proxy

Something significant happened in January 2026 that most people outside of Wall Street barely noticed. JPMorgan Asset Management — one of the largest asset managers on the planet, with voting rights over thousands of publicly listed companies — quietly cut ties with its proxy advisory firms. No more ISS. No more Glass Lewis. Instead, it launched an internal AI tool called Proxy IQ, designed to analyse data from over 3,000 annual company meetings and generate voting recommenda