Nufar Gaspar

Is it the ideas?

And so on.

That way you don't have to iterate endless times only to get frustrated and ending up writing it yourself, but you will actually get to steer the tools in the right direction.

And then we have the very last employee that you need to hire.

And this one will be like the operational powerhouse that will help you in the day-to-day stuff.

And that will give you the operational visibility and the support that you always wanted, but never had typically the headcount or bandwidth to build.

And I think that with the prevalence and the accessibility of the connectors within the modern AI tools, it's now much, much easier and more reliable to gather and synthesize across multiple systems in which your data likely resides in your organization, no matter how messy it is.

And for many leaders, the operational support that they rely on, whether it's meeting prep, status report, briefing documents, this one is the work that their teams, they do probably diligently, but often truly resents.

And also, this is probably one of the first things that your employees will likely automate with the I4 themselves.

So leaders should probably do the same.

Of course, you can rely on your team, but I would advise that you go even further and do it yourself because you know best or better than everybody else what are your needs in terms of the specific reports and the specific information that you're looking to get much better than everybody else who needs to brief you.

So one thing that you can do here to really nail this is to not just automate what you already do, but rather think about any visibility and any operations that you always wanted but never had the bandwidth for.

So maybe you always dreamt to have a daily overview across all the departments in your organization without burdening your reports.

Maybe you wanted to get like a deep P&L analysis every morning, or maybe you just should or have always wanted to have a stakeholder relationship tracker that reminds you of the specific context before every meeting or a status synthesis across 10 channels you can physically monitor.

And AI makes something like that is previously in feasible operations to a very, very feasible thing.

And then the question is not, what can I automate?

The question is, what would I build if I had an unlimited amount of headcount in my company?

And those, I think, should be the first operational dashboards and ideas that you should build.

And another thing that makes the operational powerhouse digital employee or AI that helps you become even better is to make sure that it's your own and not generic.

Because a generic meeting preparation like summarize last transcript and emails is for the most part for leaders not good enough.