Why AI won't grow your business

If you're a $3M+ business in a regulated industry, we'll find the #1 constraint bottlenecking your business and the best solution to solve it - whether it's AI or not - for free: https://alreadybuilt.ai/strategy?r=y22p&utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=Y22-ai-wont-grow-your-business&utm_content=desc_top Your agents are running, your team is trained, and your AI bill is bigger every month. A year later your revenue is where it was, your headcount is where it was, and your margin is worse, because the only line that moved is the bill. That is not a broken tool and it is not you being bad at AI. AI multiplies whatever you point it at, which means owning it was never the advantage, and nobody checked what yours was pointed at. In this episode Otavio makes the case with the work: the build two other attempts could not finish, a 240,000 dollar automation that left a company with exactly as many customers as it started with, the 22 million dollar deal a system surfaced that no banker ever listed, and the law firm paying 141,000 dollars a month for a tool its own attorneys refused to use. Then the part that cannot be handed to AI at all, and the one question to answer before spending another dollar on it. In this episode: 00:00 Your AI bill went up and nothing else moved 01:36 What this episode covers 02:01 The build two other attempts could not finish 05:10 The pilot that never got killed 06:27 AI did not eliminate capital, reach, or talent 07:20 The 240,000 dollar automation that changed nothing 09:51 Bottlenecked deal flow, and the 22 million inside it 13:47 I sent my best offer to 10,000 attorneys 17:50 The one part you cannot hand off 26:38 141,000 dollars a month for a tool nobody used 33:41 Somebody has to carry the consequence 40:50 Before you spend another dollar on AI