^redacted‌, what I've seen after implementing ~90 AI Systems in different SMB industries is that the higher the CAUSALITY between what you're building the MAKE MONEY part, the best and most convincing. My premise before building whatever solution is to check for any Make Money / Save Money / Save Time. If it saves 5h/week from the owner, not necessarily it translate to better margin or more revenue. But if it helped increase 10% de conversion rate, increased LTV, unlocked team capability, then it is much easier to prove its value. You can apply AI in the whole company, but if you try do it at once, you will high likely fail.

My thought - eliminate is the wrong word...to me, the goal should be to accelerate through automating. For example: One of the most important areas that it can help accelerate is successfully integrating acquisitions. In doing so, I would suggest building a business brain using Claude/AI that you can quickly have all of the information about the business so that you have created context/knowledge transfer as quickly as possible. If you start taking actions before truly understanding the business, this can lead to big issues. But, taking 12 months to really learn the business is also not a good strategy. So, the key is to truly integrate the business, minimize disruptions and begin to be able to positively impact the business as quickly as possible. AI is a great way to do that so you can then determine what can be automated and what can be accelerated.