• AI Assistants for Decision SupportPhilip Tetlock's study of expert political forecasters found the average expert predicted geopolitical events about as well as a dart-throwing chimpanzee, and the best performers were foxes who sought disconfirming evidence. Kahneman's noise adds ...40 MIN
• AI Systems for Measurement and InsightsAn Ohio plant displayed seventeen live production metrics for three years. Nobody caught the vibration on Machine 7 drifting up 0.3 percent a week until the bearing failed, shutting the line eleven days at an estimated $2.1 million. Human eyes can...32 MIN
• AI Tools That Replace Manual AnalysisA working guide to the three categories of AI analysis tools, with named products and pricing from Power BI Copilot to Anodot, and side-by-side workflow comparisons: a quarterly customer feedback review drops from roughly 19 hours 40 minutes to ab...35 MIN
• AI Tools for Learning OptimizationThree AI tool types address three distinct failures. Adaptive tutors fix pacing, since fixed curricula move too fast for some and too slow for others. Spaced repetition schedulers fix forgetting, exploiting Ebbinghaus's 1885 finding that memory de...38 MIN
• AI Use Cases for Small TeamsBrynjolfsson, Li and Raymond studied 5,179 customer support agents and also recorded 9 percent higher satisfaction scores, with the largest gains going to newer workers who effectively reached expertise that normally takes years to build. For a te...31 MIN
• Automation Ideas for Content CreationEditors cited the limits of the underlying technology, which makes the case a useful corrective to the assumption that automation only ever scales upward. The Associated Press went the other way, using Wordsmith from 2014 to lift earnings-story ou...32 MIN
• Automation Ideas for Knowledge WorkersWhat to automate, and what to leave alone. The target is scaffolding work rather than judgment: moving data between systems, status reporting, scheduling, filing, and answering the same question repeatedly. Mark's research put the recovery cost of...25 MIN
• Automation Ideas for Remote TeamsDoist, with 100 employees across 35 countries, reported cutting average meeting time per employee from 8.5 hours per week in 2019 to 2.1 hours by 2022, a 75 percent reduction, alongside an employee NPS rise from 61 to 79. GitLab's 2022 Remote Work...38 MIN
• Process Automation Ideas for StartupsOldroyd, McElheran and Elkington analyzed more than 2,200 companies for Harvard Business Review and found waiting a full day left firms over sixty times worse off than responding inside the hour. That gap is what automated capture and routing clos...32 MIN
• Workflow Automation Ideas That Save TimeA 2023 Asana study found workers spend 58 percent of their time on work about work: status updates, hunting for information, switching apps. Automating a quarter of a 40-hour week recovers 520 hours a year. The common mistake is not the wrong tool...32 MIN