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9 articles matching / latest 17 Sept 2026
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
The ops lead left in July and the Monday invoice chase stopped in August, quietly, with no error and no alert. The handover doc was never the deliverable. The list of what runs under their name was, and three of the four platforms you use will not tell you it exists.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
Twelve people on a paid AI workspace runs about $2,880 a year. Twelve people on their own logins runs zero, and what that zero buys is a set of data terms somebody on your payroll agreed to on their phone.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
A fifty thousand dollar seat just opened and somebody has already told you not to fill it. The evidence that AI is eating entry-level jobs is real, it is specific, and it is measuring a company that is not yours.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
The automation has been parked since February because somebody said the CRM has to be clean first. It reads four fields and touches about three thousand records. The cleanup that actually gates it is an afternoon, and the four-week version was never going to hold anyway.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
The plumbing that lets an AI agent spend your company's money unattended is now a versioned spec with sixty payment companies behind it. The rule about who eats a bad purchase is not written yet, and the protocol's own documentation says so in plain language.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
The email is drafted. Everyone is expected to be using AI by October, and yes, we will ask about it at review time. Send it and a number comes back. The number is wrong, and now it lives in a personnel file.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
Two of last month's calls said they found you by asking an assistant. The settings that decide whether your name can appear at all are free and take an afternoon, and the thing being sold to you as the fix is documented by Google as not being a requirement.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
It is not the row count. A spreadsheet stops being good enough the moment two people can both be right about the same number, and that day arrives years before the file gets slow.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
The right first automation is not your biggest time sink. It is the small task that quietly does not happen when everyone is busy, because that is where the money actually leaks.
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