Operations Isn’t the Back Office. It’s the Growth Strategy.
There’s a moment every growing company hits. Revenue is climbing, the team is expanding, and the CEO is busier than ever — yet somehow everything feels harder. Decisions stall. Hiring is reactive. Compliance is a someday problem. The founder is in every meeting because nothing moves without them.
AI Isn't Doing My Job. It's Giving Me My Strategic Brain Back.
There's a version of the AI conversation I'm tired of.
The one where AI is either coming for everyone's job, or it's a magic button that does the work for you. Both takes miss what's actually happening — at least in mine.
AI isn't doing my job. It's making me more efficient at the parts of my job that were never the point in the first place. And the time it's giving back is showing me something uncomfortable: I had quietly turned strategic thinking into repetitive duty. AI is the thing that pulled me out of it.