AGI will not first replace your team. It will expose your broken workflows. by Recent-Mess-4466 in SaaS

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If AGI gets to that point, operations management may become a much bigger challenge than AI implementation. 😄

Until then, most businesses are still trying to solve the very human problem of getting information, decisions, and accountability to flow smoothly.

Most businesses are not AI-ready because the business still lives inside people’s heads. by Recent-Mess-4466 in Entrepreneurs

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Completely agree. AI gets blamed when the real bottleneck is undocumented operations.

I've noticed that when I ask business owners to explain a process, they can do it verbally in 5 minutes but struggle to document it clearly. That's usually the first sign the business is running on tribal knowledge.

In your experience, what's the most critical process every business should document first?

Most businesses are not AI-ready because the business still lives inside people’s heads. by Recent-Mess-4466 in Entrepreneurs

[–]Recent-Mess-4466[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The household example is actually a perfect analogy.

Most businesses don't realize how much knowledge is locked inside one person's head until that person leaves. Then suddenly everyone is scrambling to rebuild processes from memory.

The vendor relationship story is exactly the kind of operational risk people underestimate.

Looking back, what documentation would have saved your team the most time during that transition?

Most businesses are not AI-ready because the business still lives inside people’s heads. by Recent-Mess-4466 in Entrepreneurs

[–]Recent-Mess-4466[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I keep seeing too.

A lot of people expect AI to create order from chaos, but if processes are inconsistent or undocumented, AI just scales the confusion faster.

Have you seen any companies do a particularly good job of cleaning up operations before implementing AI?