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Something about my last AI keynote didn't go to plan Friend.

During my session at the Montana Society for CPAs Annual Conference a few weeks ago, I asked a question of the audience from the stage:

"How many of you have defined company values?"

I anticipated at least half the room would put their hands up, but in a way that said they'd seen the values posted on a wall but not actually used in practice.

About a third of the hands went up. 

Interesting. 

These people work at accounting firms and have to take classes to keep their licenses. Rule followers, they do things by the book. Not what I expected.

Then I asked: "How many of you have personal values?"

Hands from 75% of the room shot up.

Um, wow... 
but I guess I should have expected that - these are disciplined, high integrity people.

I don't think I've ever been in front of an audience before where that many people had defined their personal values.

You may be asking yourself, "Why would she ask about values when she was talking about AI?" 

Values are the ultimate context for AI to be a better tool. Values keep AI from giving you generic garbage.

America's 250th birthday is this week and in celebration there's quite a few documentaries and series about the founding of our country. One in particular is called The American Experiment. I think that's actually a very helpful framing for both our democracy and using AI.

This idea that you try things, you learn, your values guide what you do next. Our forefathers met for months and produced documents that declared what was important to them and then acted on it. The didn't wait for perfect. They ran the experiment(s).

In celebration of our American Experiment, for July I invite you to engage with me for 4 weeks of small experiments. Things you can try between client meetings and job site visits. Use your values to guide you.

WEEK 1 EXPERIMENT:
Take your most time-consuming task and see how AI can help.

What's the one thing eating up the most time in your week?

The reformatting. The repetitive stuff. The thing you dread every Monday because you know it's waiting for you.

Here's a R.I.P.E. prompt to try. (If you don't know the R.I.P.E. framework, it's a simple way to talk to AI so it actually understands you. Read about it here: https://willness.dev/blog/how-to-use-ai)

R: You are an operations consultant who specializes in businesses eliminate repetitive administrative work.

I: I spend [X hours/week] on [specific task — reformatting client info, entering data into spreadsheets, organizing project notes, reconciling material schedules]. I already use [list your current tools: Excel, Google Drive, your CRM, etc.]. I do not want to buy new software.

P: Ask me three clarifying questions one at a time about my current workflow. Then give me a step-by-step plan for how to automate or streamline this using only the tools I already have.

E: A detailed, actionable plan with specific steps I can implement this week.

Try it. Then hit reply and tell me what you found. I'm genuinely curious.

xo,

P.S. New episodes of Elevated are out this week. Listen here.

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