Colleagues' College 2026: Engaging AI with purpose - The Echo

You bought the AI tool. Nobody used it. $200/month just... gone.

You're not alone, and you're not the problem.

Most business owners I talk to aren't struggling with AI because they're behind. They're struggling because every implementation started with a tool instead of a purpose.

Here's what a group of educators figured out that most AI vendors will never tell you: purpose has to come first. Before you pick the platform, you need to know exactly what problem you're solving. Not in theory. In your actual day-to-day operations.

That shifts everything. Instead of buying AI and hoping your team finds a use for it, you identify one specific bottleneck — one repetitive task eating real hours — and find the simplest tool that addresses only that. Nothing more.

This is how you get a win inside 30 days without touching what already works.

Pick one task your team does manually at least three times a week. Write it down. That single sentence is your AI strategy for the next 30 days. Everything else can wait.

What's one task in your business that you've thought "there has to be a better way" — but you haven't acted on it yet?

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... integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the broader mission of Christian higher education. A central component of this year's initiative ...