𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐚 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝. 😳
That is AI theatre: output that exists to prove the tool is running. Posts nobody asked for. Summaries nobody reads. A weekly report on hours saved. It looks like progress, and it quietly costs you real hours to make and review.
This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, Kree and Varun open part two of the theme:
𝐓𝐡𝐞 $𝟐𝟎 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞.
Here is the uncomfortable evidence. In a 69 page study of its own customers, OpenAI found no meaningful link between how intensively a company used AI and its revenue per employee. Usage is not a result. Tokens are not revenue. And a six person team is far more exposed to a wasted year than a four hundred person one.
Inside the episode:
🔴 US Cryotherapy: revenue up, headcount up from 8 to 12, owner uses AI mostly to think
🔴 Gusto on 100,000 small firms: 𝟏𝟎 points more AI exposure, about 𝟐.𝟐% more revenue
🔴 The two numbers that count: net revenue per person, and what the freed time became
Point AI where judgment is expensive and slow. That costs the same twenty dollars as the theatre. 🎙️
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