There\u2019s something to be said about the reality of how helpful AI can be within running a business, and as someone who has been on the hunt to discover this for themselves, I speak from experience when I say that the path to AI-run success is not exactly what the internet makes it out to\u00a0be.<\/p>\n
A few months ago, as a business owner myself, I became consumed with the idea of building something truly special with AI assistance a real, legitimate business with actual revenue generation but I couldn\u2019t find any real information on what the actual process of doing this looked\u00a0like<\/p>\n
Most articles written on the subject were either promotional pieces for SaaS tools or sensationalist opinion pieces focused on how the technology could replace humans in the workplace; no one actually seemed to want to discuss the day-to-day reality of building an AI-driven company and what it actually meant to run such an entity. Thus, I set out to answer these questions for myself, and in this piece, I\u2019ll do my best to relay what I learned without pushing any particular tool or method as being somehow superior to the\u00a0rest.<\/p>\n
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What Does it Mean to Build a Company with\u00a0AI?<\/strong><\/p>\n When I set out on this journey, I didn\u2019t have a business plan. I had an idea, a hope, really that perhaps a single individual with the right tools could be able to achieve the same results as a small, mid-level team.<\/p>\n I had seen too many companies waste money and resources on tasks that a competent individual could complete and struggled to find much in the way of viable options for streamlining my own processes at the time, and so that\u2019s what drove me to seek out information on how to build a company with AI assistance in the first\u00a0place.<\/p>\n The truth is, I didn\u2019t have a particularly strong grasp on what exactly it meant to build a company in this way at first\u200a\u2014\u200aa majority of people don\u2019t. What I failed to realise at the time was that to build a truly digitalised, AI-driven company meant to adopt a fully digitalised approach to every aspect of my own operations as\u00a0well.<\/p>\n In practice, this looked like research and validation became a continuous, daily process rather than an event that only happened occasionally\u200a\u2014\u200acontent writing became exponentially faster and far more experimental, as I could churn out ten different headlines for the same article in the same day rather than spending a week agonising over a single one, customer communications became far more immediate and efficient, and administrative tasks that previously bled into my entire day were consolidated into far more manageable chunks that took up, altogether, less than an\u00a0hour.<\/p>\n It\u2019s important to note, however, that none of this eliminated the need for judgement or critical thinking within my own operations\u200a\u2014\u200aI simply replaced my own repetitive, time-wasting tasks with those that could be automated, which ultimately gets to the root of what I feel is the most important lesson within the entire experience in\u00a0general.<\/p>\n The Lesson that Not Everyone Talks\u00a0About<\/strong><\/p>\n When it comes to actually learning how to build a company with AI assistance, I think the most important lesson to be learned is that AI doesn\u2019t do the work for you it only removes the roadblocks that previously kept you from doing the work you needed to do at an acceptable pace.<\/p>\n My early experiments with AI were riddled with failure emails that I sent to prospective clients had been generated by AI and were immediately off-putting due to their robotic nature; market research conducted by my chatbots turned out to be wildly inaccurate when cross-referenced with actual data from other sources, etc. In the end, none of this was actually AI\u2019s fault it simply reflected that people who are using these tools tend to make the same mistakes over and over again, and those mistakes are usually process-related. If you rush through the process of generating content, you\u2019ll end up with content that sounds rushed. If you fail to fact-check your research, you\u2019ll end up with research that\u2019s full of easily avoidable errors.<\/p>\n So, Can You Actually Build a Company with AI Assistance?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, but not in the way that most people seem to\u00a0think<\/p>\n You can\u2019t magically outsource your own judgement or decision-making to some magical algorithm, but what you can do is automate the drudgery of actually executing on an idea to let your brain focus on the more important tasks that require thought. The companies that have successfully utilised this method in practice have done so by building proper feedback loops into their processes and never putting out any work without first double-checking the AI\u2019s work to ensure it meets their standards.<\/p>\n In essence, these companies know that the best way to use AI assistance is to treat any work that comes out of it as a first draft of something that will eventually need to be reviewed by a human being\u200a\u2014\u200athis way, they\u2019re able to maintain quality control throughout their operations while still enjoying the benefits of increased productivity and decreased overhead. It\u2019s a delicate balance, but with the right approach, it\u2019s entirely possible.<\/p>\n What Would You Say to Someone Considering This Approach?<\/strong><\/p>\n If you\u2019re reading this article, odds are you\u2019re considering learning how to build a company with AI assistance one day, and so I urge you to think carefully about exactly what it is you hope to accomplish before investing too much time into learning the ins and outs of these\u00a0tools.<\/p>\n Above all, I think it\u2019s important that you realise that the end goal should always be a company that only requires your own brainpower to make decisions. Ideally, most of your daily tasks should be automated so that you only have to spend minimal amounts of your own time on them throughout the\u00a0day.<\/p>\n Start small: take one repetitive task from your own operations and plug it into an AI-powered program before you try to scale up and automate your entire business at once and be prepared to spend some time troubleshooting before you begin seeing results. After all, the companies that will end up succeeding in this space aren\u2019t the ones that claim to be \u201c100% AI-run,\u201d but rather the ones that use the technology as a tool to move faster than everyone else while keeping a close eye on what needs to be improved in their own operations.<\/p>\n This is the reality of learning how to build a company with AI assistance, and I hope that this piece serves not as some magical end-all-be-all guide, but rather an informative look at the actual process that people rarely ever seem to talk about, as well as an actionable starting point for anyone who wants to begin exploring the benefits for themselves.<\/p>\n I Tried Building a Company with Only AI<\/a> was originally published in Coinmonks<\/a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here\u2019s What Actually Happens\u00a0Review There\u2019s something to be said about the reality of how helpful AI can be within running a business, and as someone who has been on the hunt to discover this for themselves, I speak from experience when I say that the path to AI-run success is not exactly what the internet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":201873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}