What pension funds miss about AI — and how to get ahead, according to Stanford's Ashby Monk
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What pension funds miss about AI — and how to get ahead, according to Stanford's Ashby Monk
You bought the AI tool. Nobody uses it. $200/month quietly draining while the tab stays closed.
That's not a you problem. That's a documentation problem.
Stanford researcher Ashby Monk made a sharp
You bought the AI tool. Nobody uses it. $200/month quietly draining while the tab stays closed.
That's not a you problem. That's a documentation problem.
Stanford researcher Ashby Monk made a sharp observation about why some industries actually succeed with AI — and most don't. Industries like healthcare and insurance get AI to work because everything is already documented. The processes, the decisions, the exceptions. AI has something real to grab onto.
Most small businesses skip this step entirely. They buy the tool before they've written down how the work actually gets done. Then they wonder why AI doesn't fit.
Here's the practical shift: before you evaluate a single AI tool, spend 30 minutes writing out one repeatable task your team does every week. Step by step. That document becomes the blueprint. Now you're not buying AI blind — you're matching a tool to a defined process.
That's how one clean win happens. Not by chasing every new platform. By documenting first, then automating one thing that already works.
Which process in your business runs the same way every time — but still eats hours you don't have?
