Opinion piece: Only 7% of Australian businesses broadly use AI. That should worry us
PushButton AI Team ·
Opinion piece: Only 7% of Australian businesses broadly use AI. That should worry us
Only 7% of Australian businesses are broadly using AI.
That stat isn't a warning to move faster. It's actually reassuring — you're not behind. Most businesses are exactly where you are.
The real pro
Only 7% of Australian businesses are broadly using AI.
That stat isn't a warning to move faster. It's actually reassuring — you're not behind. Most businesses are exactly where you are.
The real problem isn't that you missed AI. It's that the tools that got sold to you weren't matched to an actual problem you had. A subscription nobody opens isn't an AI failure. It's a sales pitch that worked on you once.
That's not on you. Vendors make AI sound like a Swiss Army knife. But the businesses quietly winning with AI aren't doing everything — they're solving one specific, repetitive problem and measuring whether it worked.
That's the whole strategy. One problem. One tool. Thirty days to see a result.
Start here: Write down the task your team does most often that follows the same steps every time. That's your first AI candidate. Not your whole operation — just that one thing.
That's where the ROI shows up. That's where confidence in AI gets built. And that's what separates practical implementation from expensive experiments.
What's a tool you bought that nobody ended up actually using — and do you know why it didn't stick?
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