Stop Buying AI Tools. Start Solving Problems.

Every week, I meet executives who've spent millions on AI platforms that sit unused. They bought the Ferrari but never learned to drive. Here's the uncomfortable truth: AI success has nothing to do with having the best tools and everything to do with solving the right problems.

The most successful AI implementations I've seen started with a whiteboard and a simple question: "What's the one thing that's killing our productivity right now?" Not "What's the coolest AI tool we can buy?" but "What specific problem costs us time and money every single day?"

One client was evaluating a $2M enterprise AI platform. We helped them step back and identify their real pain point: sales reps spending 40% of their time on manual data entry. The solution? A simple automation that cost $50K and saved them $3M annually. The lesson? Start with the problem, not the product.