When Capital Reallocates, Leadership Follow

The author’s companion papers established that the specification-layer workforce faces structural eliminationat the organisational level1 and that AI infrastructure spending is displacing enterprise SaaS budgets at themarket level.2 This paper extends the analysis to the governance layer: when capital reallocates from one technology platform to another, executive leadership follows. The paper introduces the Platform-Era LeadershipTransition (PELT) Index, a six-signal diagnostic framework for assessing the structural exposure of seniorexecutives during platform transitions.