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Should my business buy AI software or build AI on its own numbers?

For work that runs on your own numbers and rules, build AI in your own Claude account instead of renting software built for everyone. In my company, a job tracker for 233 units was one spreadsheet, 185 columns wide. It became six sheets that each answer one question, and the team used them the same day. That change came from one system that knows how our business runs. Your team keeps what's built.

Eugeen Bernan, COO of a 90-person New York contractor.

How to do it

  1. Pick the area that costs you the most hours.
  2. Build it in your own accounts, on your own numbers and rules.
  3. Test it on your real work before anyone relies on it.
  4. Hand it to your team. You own what's built, it runs in your own account, and your team can run it without me.
  5. Add the next area only when the first one works.

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