Top AI Execs to Watch in 2026: Koniag Government Services' Zach Curtis | WashingtonExec

The Army is saving 687,000 hours a year with AI. Not by replacing people. By automating the paperwork nobody wanted to do anyway. You bought that AI tool. Your team never opened it. Now it sits at $2

The Army is saving 687,000 hours a year with AI.
Not by replacing people. By automating the paperwork nobody wanted to do anyway.

You bought that AI tool. Your team never opened it. Now it sits at $200/month like a gym membership in February. That's not a you problem — that's a bad implementation problem. You're not tech-stupid. You just got sold a solution before anyone defined the actual problem.

Here's what the smart government contractors figured out first: they didn't start with the flashiest tool. They started with the most painful, repetitive process their team touched every single day. Then they asked one question — what part of this could run without a human in the loop?

That's the entire framework. Painful process. Repeatable task. Remove the human bottleneck.

Your first AI win probably isn't a $50K platform. It's automating one workflow your team manually handles five times a day — scheduling follow-ups, sorting inbound requests, drafting first-pass responses.

Pick the one thing your team complains about most. That's your starting point.


What's the one repetitive task eating the most hours in your business right now?

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For example, the Army Contracting Enterprise is saving 687,000 hours per year through AI and automation tools KGS developed for the Office of the ...