Speaking and teaching
One subject. Check the process before you automate it.
I talk to business owners, not engineers. No slides full of tools.
The talk is about the process they already run, and what happens when speed gets added to a process nobody checked.
Topics
Three talks. One argument.
- 1
The faster mess
Why speeding up a process hides what's wrong with it. A slow mess announces itself. A fast one looks like progress until the numbers get checked.
- 2
Bolted on or bolted in
Two ways to add AI to a business. Bolted on, the steps stay and get faster. Bolted in, the process gets rebuilt and steps stop existing.
- 3
Start it like it's this year
Re-imagining a business the way someone founding it now would build it, then deciding what to keep.
The example I use most
A sales-training program that took a year to tell you anything.
It ran twelve months before anyone knew which new hires were worth keeping. Rebuilt, it ran in six. At the three-month review, the signal already matched the client's own sales numbers.
- 12months, as it ran
- 6months, rebuilt
- 3months to signal
Classes
For owners who want to do the work themselves.
I teach classes for business owners on the same subject. Dates and formats are at conefer.com/class.
Booking
Speaking requests go through Conefer.
Tell me the audience and the date. I'll tell you if it's a fit.