Ideas worth keeping, not just publishing

Remove unnecessary steps before adding automation.

• Remove unnecessary steps before adding automation.
• A simpler process needs less time and fewer people to run.

Judge AI work by revenue, customer results, team capacity, and your own time.

• Judge AI work by revenue, customer results, team capacity, and your own time.
• New tools and projects can feel productive without producing a useful result.

Believing your process cannot be replicated makes the business harder to run.

• Believing your process cannot be replicated makes the business harder to run.
• Writing down one repeatable piece of work is enough to begin.

Look for repetitive tasks before trying to replace a role.

• Look for repetitive tasks before trying to replace a role.
• Ask why a manual process still exists.

The coolest AI tool is probably not the right one for your business.

• The coolest AI tool is probably not the right one for your business.
• Trying to keep up with every new tool can create operational damage instead of progress.

Start AI adoption with a workflow that already happens inside the business.

• Start AI adoption with a workflow that already happens inside the business.
• Put knowledge trapped in one employee's head into a process others can follow.

AI tends to accelerate the way a business already operates.

• AI tends to accelerate the way a business already operates.
• A poorly understood workflow can become more confusing when it moves faster.

Context is the amount of information an AI can handle at once.

• Context is the amount of information an AI can handle at once.
• Overloading one agent can make it compress details and forget things.

Put one workflow on paper before choosing where AI belongs.

• Put one workflow on paper before choosing where AI belongs.
• Fix the clear process and interface problems with dependable tools first.