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Most companies are doing AI wrong - Chris Skinner's blog
PushButton AI Team ·
You don't have an AI problem. You have a workflow redesign problem. Most business owners buy an AI tool hoping it fixes things automatically. Then three months later it's just another $200/month line
You don't have an AI problem. You have a workflow redesign problem.
Most business owners buy an AI tool hoping it fixes things automatically. Then three months later it's just another $200/month line item nobody touches. Sound familiar?
That's not a failure of AI. That's a failure of how AI gets introduced.
Here's what the companies actually winning with AI are doing differently. They're not experimenting faster or buying more tools. They're picking one broken or bottlenecked process, redesigning how that process works, and then dropping AI into the new version. Not the old one.
The tool was never the problem. Plugging a new tool into a flawed process just automates the frustration.
The practical move right now: pick one task your team does manually that's repetitive and time-consuming. Write down the steps. Then ask whether AI could handle even two of those steps reliably. That's your starting point. Not a platform. Not a strategy overhaul. One task.
That's how a first AI win actually happens.
What's one process in your business that eats time every single week? Drop it below — genuinely curious what you're working with.
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This is why only a small group of firms are really getting value from AI, and they're not the ones experimenting faster. They're the ones redesigning ...