The Question Nobody Asks Before Deploying AI

Before you deploy any AI system - any chatbot, any agent, any automation - there's one question that will save you an enormous amount of time, money, and frustration.

Is AI actually the right solution for this problem?

Not "can AI do this." AI can do a lot of things. The question is whether it's the best tool for the specific job you have.

Sometimes it is. Sometimes a better-organized spreadsheet would do the same job in a fraction of the time at a fraction of the cost. Sometimes what looks like an AI problem is actually a process problem, and deploying AI on top of a broken process just makes the broken process faster.

I call this the problem-to-AI fit analysis. And it's the step most organizations skip because they've already decided they want AI and they're just looking for a use case to attach it to.

Flip that. Start with the problem. Then ask honestly whether AI is the right answer. Sometimes it's yes. Sometimes it's not. Knowing the difference before you start is worth everything.

There's a full framework for this in the book https://www.amazon.com/AI-Enterprise-Lessons-Doing-Right/dp/B0H1WRNYRT

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