How-toAI
The AI Business Audit
A practical way to identify where AI could help a business.
The AI business audit
- 01TimeWhere are you losing time?
- 02RepetitionWhat do you keep repeating?
- 03Manual workWhere are people doing work a computer could help with?
- 04Human judgementWhat actually needs a human decision?
- 05Automation opportunityWhat could be easier?
Start here
Before buying another AI tool, stop.
Look at the business first.
Because the tool is rarely the starting point.
The problem is.
Where are you losing time?
Write down the things that take more time than they should.
Do not worry about whether AI can solve them yet.
Just find the friction.
What do you keep repeating?
Look for tasks that happen again and again.
The more repetitive the task, the more interesting it becomes.
Where are people doing work a computer could help with?
Research.Sorting.Writing first drafts.Summarising.Organising.Searching.Checking.
These are good places to investigate.
What actually needs human judgement?
This part is just as important.
Not everything should be automated.
Some things need experience.Some need relationships.Some need taste.Some need a human being making the final decision.
What is the smallest useful automation?
Do not try to transform the entire business in one weekend.
Find one small problem.
Solve it properly.
Then learn from it.
Final thought
The goal is not to make a business look more futuristic.
The goal is to make it work better.