Your Business Doesn’t Need AI. You Just Fell for the Hype.

I've been in the market for a long time, and I've watched countless videos, posts, podcasts, reels, and other content around AI and automation.

And honestly, there's one thing I keep noticing:

Everyone is trying to ride the hype.

"Your business needs AI."

"You need to automate everything."

"AI is going to change your business."

But here's the thing:

You don't need AI or automation just because everyone on the internet is talking about it.

Let me help you with it, and you will be able to judge yourself that do you or your business really need it or not.

101s of automation need:

  • Your team repeatedly does the same manual task every day (boring and time consuming)
  • Employees spend hours copying information between tools (pain at the tips of finger)
  • You're answering the same customer questions over and over (pain in the butt)
  • Leads are coming in but follow-ups are inconsistent (pain in boss's head in this case you)
  • Manually creating reports, summaries, proposals, or documents (Yawn 🥱)
  • Monitoring things email, summaries, proposal, and what not (pain in the eyes)
  • You have a process that is basically "when X happens, do A → B → C" (you better automate this to save time)

Those are much better signals

If a task is repetitive, predictable, rule-based, and eating up your team's time, that's where automation starts making sense.

Now the AI part, to be honest only use when you really need to use it, don't believe someone on internet, because they say "That your business needs AI"

101s of AI need:

  • Only use AI as an addons into your business or product, where you need to analyse, decide, act on it, need a second brain, generate content fast, need to answer repetitive question.
  • Analyze large amounts of information
  • Make decisions based on data or context
  • Generate content quickly
  • Summarize information
  • Answer repetitive questions
  • Extract information from documents
  • Act as a "second brain" for your team
  • Handle tasks that require understanding language, context, or unstructured data

That's when AI starts making sense.

Otherwise, a simple automation, a better process, or even doing the task manually might be the better solution.

Don't be AI first, be business first.

And before automating something "Fix your damn flow".

If your existing process is messy, inefficient, or unclear, automating it will probably just help you do the wrong thing faster, because to automate something, you must know what and how to automate something in first place.

The order should be:

Fix your existing flow -> automate it -> Integrate AI where it actually adds value.

If you have a process in your business that feels repetitive, painful, slow, or unnecessarily manual, feel free to contact me.

Happy to discuss where automation could actually make sense, identify gaps in your workflow, and figure out whether you need automation, AI, or neither.

reddit.com
u/aforaman25 — 3 days ago

Your Business Doesn’t Need AI. You Just Fell for the Hype.

I've been in the market for a long time, and I've watched countless videos, posts, podcasts, reels, and other content around AI and automation.

And honestly, there's one thing I keep noticing:

Everyone is trying to ride the hype.

"Your business needs AI."

"You need to automate everything."

"AI is going to change your business."

But here's the thing:

You don't need AI or automation just because everyone on the internet is talking about it.

Let me help you with it, and you will be able to judge yourself that do you or your business really need it or not.

101s of automation need:

  • Your team repeatedly does the same manual task every day (boring and time consuming)
  • Employees spend hours copying information between tools (pain at the tips of finger)
  • You're answering the same customer questions over and over (pain in the butt)
  • Leads are coming in but follow-ups are inconsistent (pain in boss's head in this case you)
  • Manually creating reports, summaries, proposals, or documents (Yawn 🥱)
  • Monitoring things email, summaries, proposal, and what not (pain in the eyes)
  • You have a process that is basically "when X happens, do A → B → C" (you better automate this to save time)

Those are much better signals

If a task is repetitive, predictable, rule-based, and eating up your team's time, that's where automation starts making sense.

Now the AI part, to be honest only use when you really need to use it, don't believe someone on internet, because they say "That your business needs AI"

101s of AI need:

  • Only use AI as an addons into your business or product, where you need to analyse, decide, act on it, need a second brain, generate content fast, need to answer repetitive question.
  • Analyze large amounts of information
  • Make decisions based on data or context
  • Generate content quickly
  • Summarize information
  • Answer repetitive questions
  • Extract information from documents
  • Act as a "second brain" for your team
  • Handle tasks that require understanding language, context, or unstructured data

That's when AI starts making sense.

Otherwise, a simple automation, a better process, or even doing the task manually might be the better solution.

Don't be AI first, be business first.

And before automating something "Fix your damn flow".

If your existing process is messy, inefficient, or unclear, automating it will probably just help you do the wrong thing faster, because to automate something, you must know what and how to automate something in first place.

The order should be:

Fix your existing flow -> automate it -> Integrate AI where it actually adds value.

If you have a process in your business that feels repetitive, painful, slow, or unnecessarily manual, feel free to contact me.

Happy to discuss where automation could actually make sense, identify gaps in your workflow, and figure out whether you need automation, AI, or neither.

reddit.com
u/aforaman25 — 3 days ago

Your Business Doesn’t Need AI. You Just Fell for the Hype.

I've been in the market for a long time, and I've watched countless videos, posts, podcasts, reels, and other content around AI and automation.

And honestly, there's one thing I keep noticing:

Everyone is trying to ride the hype.

"Your business needs AI."

"You need to automate everything."

"AI is going to change your business."

But here's the thing:

You don't need AI or automation just because everyone on the internet is talking about it.

Let me help you with it, and you will be able to judge yourself that do you or your business really need it or not.

101s of automation need:

  • Your team repeatedly does the same manual task every day (boring and time consuming)
  • Employees spend hours copying information between tools (pain at the tips of finger)
  • You're answering the same customer questions over and over (pain in the butt)
  • Leads are coming in but follow-ups are inconsistent (pain in boss's head in this case you)
  • Manually creating reports, summaries, proposals, or documents (Yawn 🥱)
  • Monitoring things email, summaries, proposal, and what not (pain in the eyes)
  • You have a process that is basically "when X happens, do A → B → C" (you better automate this to save time)

Those are much better signals

If a task is repetitive, predictable, rule-based, and eating up your team's time, that's where automation starts making sense.

Now the AI part, to be honest only use when you really need to use it, don't believe someone on internet, because they say "That your business needs AI"

101s of AI need:

  • Only use AI as an addons into your business or product, where you need to analyse, decide, act on it, need a second brain, generate content fast, need to answer repetitive question.
  • Analyze large amounts of information
  • Make decisions based on data or context
  • Generate content quickly
  • Summarize information
  • Answer repetitive questions
  • Extract information from documents
  • Act as a "second brain" for your team
  • Handle tasks that require understanding language, context, or unstructured data

That's when AI starts making sense.

Otherwise, a simple automation, a better process, or even doing the task manually might be the better solution.

Don't be AI first, be business first.

And before automating something "Fix your damn flow".

If your existing process is messy, inefficient, or unclear, automating it will probably just help you do the wrong thing faster, because to automate something, you must know what and how to automate something in first place.

The order should be:

Fix your existing flow -> automate it -> Integrate AI where it actually adds value.

If you have a process in your business that feels repetitive, painful, slow, or unnecessarily manual, feel free to contact me.

Happy to discuss where automation could actually make sense, identify gaps in your workflow, and figure out whether you need automation, AI, or neither.

reddit.com
u/aforaman25 — 3 days ago

Your Business Doesn’t Need AI. You Just Fell for the Hype.

I've been in the market for a long time, and I've watched countless videos, posts, podcasts, reels, and other content around AI and automation.

And honestly, there's one thing I keep noticing:

Everyone is trying to ride the hype.

"Your business needs AI."

"You need to automate everything."

"AI is going to change your business."

But here's the thing:

You don't need AI or automation just because everyone on the internet is talking about it.

Let me help you with it, and you will be able to judge yourself that do you or your business really need it or not.

101s of automation need:

  • Your team repeatedly does the same manual task every day (boring and time consuming)
  • Employees spend hours copying information between tools (pain at the tips of finger)
  • You're answering the same customer questions over and over (pain in the butt)
  • Leads are coming in but follow-ups are inconsistent (pain in boss's head in this case you)
  • Manually creating reports, summaries, proposals, or documents (Yawn 🥱)
  • Monitoring things email, summaries, proposal, and what not (pain in the eyes)
  • You have a process that is basically "when X happens, do A → B → C" (you better automate this to save time)

Those are much better signals

If a task is repetitive, predictable, rule-based, and eating up your team's time, that's where automation starts making sense.

Now the AI part, to be honest only use when you really need to use it, don't believe someone on internet, because they say "That your business needs AI"

101s of AI need:

  • Only use AI as an addons into your business or product, where you need to analyse, decide, act on it, need a second brain, generate content fast, need to answer repetitive question.
  • Analyze large amounts of information
  • Make decisions based on data or context
  • Generate content quickly
  • Summarize information
  • Answer repetitive questions
  • Extract information from documents
  • Act as a "second brain" for your team
  • Handle tasks that require understanding language, context, or unstructured data

That's when AI starts making sense.

Otherwise, a simple automation, a better process, or even doing the task manually might be the better solution.

Don't be AI first, be business first.

And before automating something "Fix your damn flow".

If your existing process is messy, inefficient, or unclear, automating it will probably just help you do the wrong thing faster, because to automate something, you must know what and how to automate something in first place.

The order should be:

Fix your existing flow -> automate it -> Integrate AI where it actually adds value.

If you have a process in your business that feels repetitive, painful, slow, or unnecessarily manual, feel free to DM me.

Happy to discuss where automation could actually make sense, identify gaps in your workflow, and figure out whether you need automation, AI, or neither.

reddit.com
u/aforaman25 — 3 days ago

I did 200/channel outreach in a week and got nothing (small but a lesson learned) (many of us are trying to get clients)

I did reach of 200 outreach from 2 channels in a week.

and i got no client, a low rate of reply and almost all ignored

That is one part.

Now what i learned is and a very important one and it is valid for all other out there doing this.

In a single line:

"This is gonna take more than 400 outreach in a week and more time than you estimated"

I know the post is small, but it is worth sharing. With what and maybe many of us think that they will get there first client like this, maybe in a day or two.

No, it is not gonna happen fast and not with 400 outreach (until you are a lucky man). So be patient and keep trying more and more.

reddit.com
u/aforaman25 — 2 months ago

I did 200/channel outreach in a week and got nothing (small but a lesson learned)

I did reach of 200 outreach from 2 channels in a week.

and i got no client, a low rate of reply and almost all ignored

That is one part.

Now what i learned is and a very important one and it is valid for all other out there doing this.

In a single line:

"This is gonna take more than 400 outreach in a week and more time than you estimated"

I know the post is small, but it is worth sharing. With what and maybe many of us think that they will get there first client like this, maybe in a day or two.

No, it is not gonna happen fast and not with 400 outreach (until you are a lucky man). So be patient and keep trying more and more.

reddit.com
u/aforaman25 — 2 months ago

I did 200/channel outreach in a week and got nothing (small but a lesson learned)

I did reach of 200 outreach from 2 channels in a week.

and i got no client, a low rate of reply and almost all ignored

That is one part.

Now what i learned is and a very important one and it is valid for all other out there doing this.

In a single line:

"This is gonna take more than 400 outreach in a week and more time than you estimated"

I know the post is small, but it is worth sharing. With what and maybe many of us think that they will get there first client like this, maybe in a day or two.

No, it is not gonna happen fast and not with 400 outreach (until you are a lucky man). So be patient and keep trying more and more.

reddit.com
u/aforaman25 — 2 months ago

I did 200/channel outreach in a week and got nothing (small but a lesson learned) (Not automation related but many of us are doing this)

I did reach of 200 outreach from 2 channels in a week.

and i got no client, a low rate of reply and almost all ignored

That is one part.

Now what i learned is and a very important one and it is valid for all other out there doing this.

In a single line:

"This is gonna take more than 400 outreach in a week and more time than you estimated"

I know the post is small, but it is worth sharing. With what and maybe many of us think that they will get there first client like this, maybe in a day or two.

No, it is not gonna happen fast and not with 400 outreach (until you are a lucky man). So be patient and keep trying more and more.

reddit.com
u/aforaman25 — 2 months ago

Is AI being the part of every automation or it is just a fluff companies say to sell

I am working in automation industry for past 7+ years and i have created many automations for many industries.

Whether it is a scraping, chatbot, ai agent (trending currently), workflow automation, business automation and other automation stuff.

Recently i have been seeing people are selling AI as an automation rather than selling actual solution. They pitch like "Yeah our AI can handle this part", but in reality they are basically setting up some API workflows, cron jobs, some filters, if-else conditions, that is it.

You may be asking where is AI, well it is there and it is not.

Seriously i have seen workflow where companies are using manual human labour to do daily task (or more appropriately companies selling these in the name of automation).

AI is trending today, i am sure that now-days if you take your problem to some company and tell them i need this workflow automated, the first solution they gonna propose is "Yeah we can build and deploy AI agents for you", whereas in reality all they gonna do is deploying some script on some cheap infra (trust me i have seen it).

Even if your problem is "I want to insert this nail into the wood", companies will say "Here is you AI agent that can do this on your behalf, with this heavy metal piece (hammer), we have given him a brain where it can decide when and where to hit". But in reality all you needed a hammer and you could have done it yourself.

Just to tell you guys, before going to any automation service provider, take a look at what is it really that you want to automate, and what could be the solution (high level overview).

reddit.com
u/aforaman25 — 3 months ago
▲ 6 r/AiAutomations+1 crossposts

Is AI being the part of every automation or it is just a fluff companies say to sell

I am working in automation industry for past 7+ years and i have created many automations for many industries.

Whether it is a scraping, chatbot, ai agent (trending currently), workflow automation, business automation and other automation stuff.

Recently i have been seeing people are selling AI as an automation rather than selling actual solution. They pitch like "Yeah our AI can handle this part", but in reality they are basically setting up some API workflows, cron jobs, some filters, if-else conditions, that is it.

You may be asking where is AI, well it is there and it is not.

Seriously i have seen workflow where companies are using manual human labour to do daily task (or more appropriately companies selling these in the name of automation).

AI is trending today, i am sure that now-days if you take your problem to some company and tell them i need this workflow automated, the first solution they gonna propose is "Yeah we can build and deploy AI agents for you", whereas in reality all they gonna do is deploying some script on some cheap infra (trust me i have seen it).

Even if your problem is "I want to insert this nail into the wood", companies will say "Here is you AI agent that can do this on your behalf, with this heavy metal piece (hammer), we have given him a brain where it can decide when and where to hit". But in reality all you needed a hammer and you could have done it yourself.

Just to tell you guys, before going to any automation service provider, take a look at what is it really that you want to automate, and what could be the solution (high level overview).

reddit.com
u/aforaman25 — 3 months ago
▲ 7 r/automation+1 crossposts

Is AI being the part of every automation or it is just a fluff companies say to sell

I am working in automation industry for past 7+ years and i have created many automations for many industries.

Whether it is a scraping, chatbot, ai agent (trending currently), workflow automation, business automation and other automation stuff.

Recently i have been seeing people are selling AI as an automation rather than selling actual solution. They pitch like "Yeah our AI can handle this part", but in reality they are basically setting up some API workflows, cron jobs, some filters, if-else conditions, that is it.

You may be asking where is AI, well it is there and it is not.

Seriously i have seen workflow where companies are using manual human labour to do daily task (or more appropriately companies selling these in the name of automation).

AI is trending today, i am sure that now-days if you take your problem to some company and tell them i need this workflow automated, the first solution they gonna propose is "Yeah we can build and deploy AI agents for you", whereas in reality all they gonna do is deploying some script on some cheap infra (trust me i have seen it).

Even if your problem is "I want to insert this nail into the wood", companies will say "Here is you AI agent that can do this on your behalf, with this heavy metal piece (hammer), we have given him a brain where it can decide when and where to hit". But in reality all you needed a hammer and you could have done it yourself.

Just to tell you guys, before going to any automation service provider, take a look at what is it really that you want to automate, and what could be the solution (high level overview).

reddit.com
u/aforaman25 — 3 months ago