150 - How to Really Start Using AI in Your Company

How to Really Start Using AI in Your Company (and what you should know before you do)

Not sure where to start with AI in your company? That’s the question I hear the most. I’ll walk you through what to do, step by step. Stay until the end. It’ll be really useful for you.

The good news: you can start for free, or spend almost nothing. And no, you don’t need an IT department.

The first step isn’t a big project. It’s figuring out where time is wasted every day. What tasks are repeated? What questions keep coming up? That’s where AI starts working for you.

With just a few clicks, you can create your own custom ChatGPT. Upload your documents, policies, price lists, manuals. Tell it who you are and how it should respond: “You’re our internal assistant. You help find info, forms, and procedures.” Done. No code, no tech team, no budget.

At first, it’ll make mistakes, but it learns fast. And soon it’ll answer everything: “Where’s the travel form?” “What’s the right product for this client?” “Where are the HR documents?” It’s all handled.

But first, organize your data. Rename files, clean Excel sheets, fix formats. AI doesn’t create order. It amplifies your chaos.

Then yes, you can connect it to Teams, Slack, Gmail, or your CRM. And you’ll start seeing results right away.

Now, the part few people explain. You can do all this for free. But when you’re not paying for a service, you might be the product. If you upload company data into ChatGPT, you lose control over where it goes. It might be used to train future models. And one day, someone else could get answers based on your data.

The alternative is to install AI locally, inside your infrastructure. Safer, but more expensive and technical.

What matters is knowing that. Because only when you understand the rules of the game can you truly decide how to play.

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