Choose the first AI workflow
Prioritize recurring work with clear inputs, reviewability and recoverable failures. Resolve missing authorization, ownership and measurement first.
RESOURCES
Less abstraction. More practical starting points.
Practical guides for internal discussions, project readiness and acceptance.
Prepare for a useful business demo
Bring one real workflow, a sanitized example, systems and interfaces, an owner and manual-effort baseline. Do not start by asking AI to solve the whole company.
Distinguish models, interfaces and connectors
Models provide inference, work interfaces provide the experience, and connectors define accessible knowledge and tools. Assess authorization and responsibility separately.
Evaluate more than a smooth demo
Compare against a manual baseline for comparable tasks: accuracy, effort, intervention, recovery and actual cost. Expand only after validation.