𝟖𝟐% 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 👀
This week Kree and Varun sit down in studio with Mehnaz Tabassum, social entrepreneur and one of the founders of CogniCo AI Consulting, which exists to help nonprofits, lean teams and changemakers adopt AI on tight budgets.
This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:
𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭.
Named Atlantic Canada's most inspiring immigrant, she has built four purpose driven ventures from the ground up, and was once one of the youngest senior IT project managers in the Government of Canada. She knows the technology, the mission, and the reality of doing a great deal with very little.
Inside the conversation:
🔴 The adoption gap between small and large businesses shrank from 1.8x in 2024 to about 1.2x in 2025, and 91% of small businesses using AI say it lifted revenue
🔴 One assistant working with AI handles 3 to 5 times the task volume of one without it, at the same cost
🔴 67% start on free or low cost tools, median annual spend around $8,200, with payback in 3 to 5 months
🔴 Training a team produces about 2.3 times the productivity of deploying without it, while roughly 95% of pilots show no measurable return
🔴 Where a human has to stay in the loop when relationships are the reason people choose you
Pick the one job that steals the most hours. Not a stack. 🎙️
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