I helped build the Pentagon's AI transformation. Corporate America is making every mistake ...

The Pentagon figured out AI. JPMorgan figured out AI. So why are smart business owners still sitting on tools nobody uses?

Because the problem was never the technology.

You're not alone in buying that AI subscription that quietly auto-renews while your team works around it. That's not a you problem — that's a deployment problem. The organizations that succeed with AI don't start with the flashiest tool. They start with one broken process and fix only that.

Drew Cukor helped build AI programs at the highest levels of government and finance. His core finding: most failures happen because leadership picks tools before identifying problems. The technology is secondary. The workflow diagnosis comes first.

Here's what that means for your business this week:

Before you evaluate any AI tool, write down the one task that eats your team's time most. Not a vague goal like "improve efficiency." One specific, repeatable task. Then find the tool built for exactly that — nothing broader.

That's how you get a real win in 30 days without touching what already works.

What's the one AI tool you bought that your team quietly stopped using — and what was supposed to solve?

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... AI integration program, and later helped lead AI transformation at JPMorgan Chase. Drew Cukor is President of TWG AI.courtesy of TWG AI. When ...