Perspectives · AI Enablement

Thinking out loud about AI adoption, training, and the teams in between.

Short articles for founders and team leads navigating the gap between buying AI tools and actually using them.

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AI Adoption 5 min read

Why most AI rollouts fail by week three — and what to do instead

The tool gets deployed. The team gets a demo. Three weeks later, nobody's using it. Here's the pattern I see in almost every failed rollout, and the one change that fixes it.

AI Adoption 4 min read

The founder's mistake: buying the tool before mapping the problem

Most founders who come to me have already spent money on AI subscriptions. The tools aren't the issue. The missing piece is almost always the same thing.

AI Adoption 7 min read

"We spent two years on AI and mostly got anxiety"

The tools aren't the issue. They never were. What follows is a conversation that plays out — in one form or another — in almost every company I work with.

Workflow Automation 4 min read

What a workflow audit actually looks like — and what it produces

It's not a consulting report nobody reads. It's a one-page map of where your team's time actually goes, with three specific recommendations ranked by impact. Here's the format I use.

AI Training 5 min read

How AI became my project partner: a look behind the scenes

I used AI to complete my Google Data Analytics capstone — not to do the work, but to elevate it. Here's exactly what that looked like, and why the distinction matters.

AI Training 5 min read

Prompt literacy: the skill your team is missing and nobody is teaching

Knowing how to use ChatGPT is not the same as knowing how to prompt it well. The gap between those two things is where most workplace AI adoption stalls.

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