Give 100 developers the same fuzzy task and you’ll get 100 different disasters.
Often, CEOs chase solutions and tools before they define the problem. Then they wonder why nothing delivers results.
If the problem or challenge isn’t clear then the desired outcome can’t be accurate… which means the project is destined for failure from the start.
And it’s exactly why so many software, AI and automation projects stall, break, or bleed resources without results.
I’ve seen this story play out dozens of times. Different company, same pattern.
Your dev team isn’t the problem
Better devs don’t solve problems where the workflow is the issue.
Your best engineer can write beautiful code that runs fast and fails to solve the problem.
We had a client come in after wasting $80k on an AI build. Top team. Great tools. Everything deployed perfectly.
It automated their EXISTING workflows.
The workflows were the problem. Now they just run without people. No value to that!
What actually works
Forget the tech. Start with clarity. Start by mapping the existing workflows and ENGINEER them on paper to be efficient first, well before you think of building a tool.
→ Map the friction. Where is time leaking? One logistics client tracked a week. Found 23 hours across teams wasted on duplicate entry. That’s an easy win.
→ Capture judgment. Your best salesperson knows which clients need a second look. Your AI won’t unless you teach it. We extract that nuance and build it in.
→ Build boring. Everyone wants sexy AI. We built a simple rules-based tool for a car dealer that saved 20 hours a week in entering data into a CRM. Nothing flashy. Just about $180k in real savings.
→ Test with mess. Testing with polished data tells lies. We use the messy real data. Most tools break and that’s how we know what to iterate on.
Real numbers, real wins
→ Engineering client: 65% fewer errors. Not from magic.
From mapping the QA logic and automating it.
→ Retail team: 80% less internal ping-pong. Not from chatbots.
From fixing exception handling.
→ Manufacturer: 3x output. Same headcount.
We killed bottlenecks. Not added people.
The pattern: clarity first, code second.
Your move
Next time someone pitches you an AI or technology solution ask: “What friction does this fix?”
If the answer is features, not outcomes, walk away.
You need systems that scale how your best people think, not more tech.
That’s what we build.
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