My startup has a literal moat, thanks to the French castle I run it from - Business Insider

Everyone's telling you to find the perfect AI tool. Nobody's telling you why the tool isn't actually the problem. There's an AI founder running his startup from a French castle. Literal moat and al

Everyone's telling you to find the perfect AI tool.

Nobody's telling you why the tool isn't actually the problem.


There's an AI founder running his startup from a French castle. Literal moat and all. The detail that caught my eye wasn't the castle — it was this: he's competing globally with a lean team by being ruthlessly focused on one problem AI solves exceptionally well for his business.

Not fifty problems. One.

That's what separates the business owners quietly winning with AI from the ones paying $200/month for software nobody opens. They didn't buy "AI." They bought a solution to a specific, painful, measurable business problem.


Here's the practical takeaway you can use this week:

Before looking at any tool, write down the one task that eats 5+ hours of your week and has a clear, repeatable output. A report. A proposal. A customer response. That single task is your AI starting point — not your whole strategy.

One solved problem. Thirty days. Real results you can actually see.


What's the one task you'd most want off your plate if you knew AI could handle it reliably?


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Small Business · The Better Work Project · Personal Finance · Tech · Science · AI ... This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rémi Louf, ...