You’re at Stage 5 of 6: AI as an Automator & Tool Creator!

Incredible! You're now actively building with AI, automating workflows and creating custom solutions. This is where transformative impact happens.

What This Stage Means

You actively automate workflows and build custom AI tools, seeing opportunities to deeply integrate AI into operations or products. You may use custom/fine-tuned models for specific needs, understand secure handling of private data with AI, and are exploring autonomous agents for sequential tasks.

Examples

Automating on-screen tasks (e.g., Task Magic); creating AI assistants trained on internal data (HR policies, sales materials); building AI to automate complex processes like proposal writing. Develop company-wide custom prompts for consistent tone. Use no-code AI tools to rapidly build apps from sketches. Create AI bots for human-like customer interactions or sales outreach (even voice). Build AI agents that can reason or mimic specific behaviors.

Key Tips to Advance Your AI Journey

  • Focus on High-Impact Strategic Value: Ensure that automation and tool creation efforts are directly tied to significant business outcomes and strategic priorities.

  • (For Organizations) Foster AI Champions and Scale Knowledge: Cultivate AI champions and communities of practice to scale AI literacy and essential building skills. A strategic AI readiness plan is key. Aim for broad, daily AI use where it truly adds value.

  • (For Organizations) Lead and Manage Change Effectively: Drive AI adoption with a clear vision and consistent communication. Address concerns, train teams through evolving roles, guided by a needs-based roadmap. Remember: your leadership speed sets the team's pace.

  • Prioritize Robust Security, Privacy, and Ethics: Centralize security, privacy, and ethics in all AI development and deployment, especially for private data, custom models, and autonomous agents. Diligently manage vulnerabilities and govern data.

  • Continuously Evaluate and Refine: With AI evolving rapidly, continuously evaluate your AI tools and automations; always be ready to refine and update.

  • Balance Automation with Essential Human Skills: Use AI for efficiency, but champion irreplaceable human judgment, creativity, and empathy. Ensure AI complements, not replaces, human input in sensitive situations, always weighing societal impacts and balancing efficiency with well-being.

Thinking Bigger: AI Across Your Organization

As you begin exploring AI for yourself, it's also a good time to consider how this journey might unfold across your entire organization. We poured our expertise into a Company AI Assessment to get it right. In less than 5 minutes, you’ll get an unprecedented AI Company Maturity report with detailed, personalized recommendations that meet your company where it’s at.

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STEP 3: Engage your company Encourage colleagues to self-assess to get a free, multi-stakeholder analysis comparing and contrasting the different AI points of view within your company