Board of Innovation began by mapping the full CPG new product development process to identify where time was being lost. The six-to-eight-month cycle wasn't caused by any single bottleneck — it was the cumulative effect of sequential gate reviews at every stage: concept approval, consumer insight gathering, formulation scoping, packaging design, and manufacturing cost estimation each required separate rounds before the next could begin. The intervention restructured each of these stages around AI-augmented workflows. Concept generation moved from brainstorming sessions to rapid AI-assisted ideation with parallel exploration of multiple directions simultaneously. Consumer insight synthesis moved from research agency timelines to AI-accelerated synthesis of existing data sources. Formulation modeling and packaging iteration were restructured to run in parallel rather than in sequence. A separate manufacturing quoting tool was built that connected to supplier data and delivered cost estimates the same day — replacing the previous six-week email cycle. The combined effect shifted CPG teams from sequential gate-based timelines to a rapid parallel prototyping model, compressing concept-to-prototype cycles from months to days.