Stop Chasing AI Moonshots: Why Boring Automation Wins

Most companies are pursuing AI innovation completely backwards. While executives chase transformative moonshot projects, they're ignoring the automation of tedious tasks that could save hundreds of employee hours every week and deliver ROI within months.In this episode, host AJ Bubb sits down with Ahmet Acar—former AWS Innovation Advisor with two decades of experience building products at McKinsey, Google, Meta, GE, and AWS—to cut through the AI hype and reveal where organizations are actually capturing value today.You'll discover why an eight-person agency can now compete with fifty-person firms, why your data infrastructure matters more than any AI tool, and which AI applications cross dangerous ethical boundaries that current technology can't support.If you're tired of AI transformation theater and want to understand how to actually improve productivity and operations, this conversation will change how you think about innovation.