How the AI revolution has turbocharged M&A - Financial Times
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How the AI revolution has turbocharged M&A - Financial Times
The biggest AI winners aren't the ones who spent the most. They're the ones who started smallest.
The Financial Times just reported that mid-sized firms are getting hurt most by the AI boom — not bec
The biggest AI winners aren't the ones who spent the most. They're the ones who started smallest.
The Financial Times just reported that mid-sized firms are getting hurt most by the AI boom — not because they ignored it, but because they chased the wrong version of it.
Sound familiar?
You're not alone if you're sitting on an AI subscription nobody opens. That $200/month tool wasn't a bad decision — it was a decision made without a clear problem to solve first. That's on the vendors who oversold, not on you.
Here's what the data keeps showing: the businesses getting real ROI from AI aren't doing dramatic overhauls. They're solving one specific, repeatable problem — a report that takes 3 hours every week, a customer question that gets answered 40 times a day, a proposal that always starts from scratch.
One problem. One tool. Thirty days to prove it works.
Before you look at any AI tool, write down your three most repetitive tasks. Not your biggest challenges — your most repetitive ones. That list is your real starting point.
What's one task in your business that AI should probably already be handling — but isn't yet?
