That New AI Tool You Just Signed Up For Knows Everything About Your Business
๐๐ญ ๐๐ฌ๐ค๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ข๐ง๐๐จ๐ฑ, ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐๐๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐. ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฒ๐๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ค. ๐ณ
That was Kree this weekend, halfway through signing up for a shiny new AI scheduling app everyone was hyping. Full read and write access to his whole digital life, handed to a three person startup on a Discord server. He caught himself. Most people donโt.
This week on ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ค๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง, we start a theme that runs all seven days:
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Hereโs the trap nobody warns you about. For an AI tool to actually save you time, it needs your data. Your spreadsheets, your customer threads, your calendar, your inbox. The moment you click โConnect,โ that twenty dollar a month tool knows more about your daily operations than your accountant does.
And thatโs just the tools you signed up for. Wait until you find out what your team quietly connected. Salesforce found ๐๐% of employees now use AI at work, while only ๐๐% of companies have any policy. Banning it fails, because the AI is already inside.
Hereโs whatโs in todayโs episode:
๐ด The context trap: why useful AI needs your data, and what that really costs
๐ด Shadow AI, and why a flat ban just makes your team hide it better
๐ด A preview of Wednesdayโs sit down with Naomi Lariviere of ADP on payroll and trust
๐ด The Monday Test to run on your connected apps today
Log into your Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 admin console, open Connected Apps, and revoke anything nobody has touched since March.
Convenience feels great on day one. Control is what keeps you in business on day one hundred. ๐๏ธ
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