The Best Enterprise AI Opportunities Hide in Undigitized Workflows
alex_verem · x · 2026-10-09
mardehaym argues the best enterprise AI opportunities hide in processes that haven't become data yet: the spreadsheet nobody admits the business runs on, month-end manual reconciliation, the sticky note on a monitor, the phone call to the one customer who always needs a different approval.
Because these steps aren't data yet, a competitor can't prompt its way into them. The linked article "the AI value creation problem" notes that private equity built its value-creation playbook with financial engineers, while AI is an engineering problem — anyone building value-creation plans should look at the AI section of their latest plan.
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