Richard CanfieldPodcast Host and IBC Advisor, Ascendant Financial · Authorized Infinite Banking Practitioner | Author of 4 Books

Small Teams Are Using AI Wrong #ai #business #automation

24 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, the speaker advises small local businesses on how to begin integrating AI. The recommended first step is to automate administrative tasks to boost employee productivity rather than replace staff. The approach emphasizes using AI to augment existing workers, allowing them to handle more work faster. The speaker suggests experimenting with readily available tools such as Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot for simple tasks like locating documents, positioning these tools as an easy entry point for AI adoption despite their simplicity.

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If you are a smaller local business, you're like, I need to incorporate AI. You need to sit down, like, what? What do I need to actually get off my plate? And I would think like, administrative tasks is the best place to start and not just like replacing your, you know, administrator with an AI bot, but instead allowing them to do a lot more of the administration that you do and just moving through things a lot faster. Where I see the first kind of phase one AI implementation is not removing workforce or people, it's allowing people to be a lot more productive and incorporating some of the tools that just easily exist within Google, like Gemini or Microsoft Copilot for things as simple as like, I can't remember the document name was and find that. And I know that sounds really simplistic, but starting to play around with those type of tools is a great entry point.