AI adoption is far harder than we are admitting - The Times

Even digitally native companies with dedicated AI teams are quietly admitting it: this is harder than anyone is saying out loud. That should make you feel less alone — not more discouraged. If a com

Even digitally native companies with dedicated AI teams are quietly admitting it: this is harder than anyone is saying out loud.

That should make you feel less alone — not more discouraged.

If a company built for the digital age, with a full internal AI team, is struggling to make this work, then your unused $200/month tool and that consultant who vanished aren't signs you did something wrong. They're signs the industry has been overselling and underdelivering at scale.

The real problem isn't you. It's that most AI rollouts skip the most important question: what specific problem are we actually solving? Without that answer, even well-funded teams end up with shiny tools nobody uses.

You don't need an AI strategy. You need one AI win. Pick the single most repetitive task your team complains about weekly. Something that costs you real time. Start there. One problem, one tool, thirty days to prove it works.

That's how you build confidence — and credibility — without blowing your budget or disrupting what's already working.

What's the one task in your business that still feels too manual, and have you ever tried to automate it?

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