This company made headlines for its aggressive AI-driven layoffs. Citi says it's paying off
PushButton AI Team ·
This company made headlines for its aggressive AI-driven layoffs. Citi says it's paying off
The loudest AI success stories right now involve mass layoffs and Wall Street applause.
That's not your story. And it shouldn't be.
You're not trying to gut your team or impress analysts. You're try
The loudest AI success stories right now involve mass layoffs and Wall Street applause.
That's not your story. And it shouldn't be.
You're not trying to gut your team or impress analysts. You're trying to run a better business without wasting money on tools that collect digital dust. That $200/month AI subscription nobody logs into anymore — you're not alone in that.
Here's what the headlines miss: the companies getting real AI results didn't start by replacing people. They started by removing friction from one specific, repetitive process. One workflow. One bottleneck. That's it.
The companies that fail at AI try to transform everything at once. The ones that win pick the single most annoying task that eats time every week — scheduling, summarizing, drafting, reporting — and automate just that.
Your move: this week, write down the one task your team dreads most because it's repetitive and time-consuming. That's your first AI candidate. Not a $40K platform. A focused solution to a real pain point you already know exists.
Small, specific, and working beats bold, expensive, and abandoned every time.
What's the one task in your business that wastes the most time every week — and have you tried automating it yet?
