FOR KITCHEN & BATH DESIGN BUSINESSES ON THE RISE

The rising cost of 'Not Yet'

Hi Friend,

Two weeks ago I got to spend 2 days with the dealers at the Bridgewood Cabinetry annual dealer event.

Being in the room with these hard-working, genuine, kind people was a true honor.

On day one I got to share the magic of AI meeting recordings in a presentation. On day two, I facilitated the roundtables, using Plaud devices to record every table. I wanted to show that capturing "the wisdom of the crowd" doesn't require a frantic scribe trying to type everything out.

It worked. We got the data, we got the summaries, attendees got the information and nobody had to take notes.

Because no one wants more notes.

😬 We want clean bullet points and a to-do list we can trust.

The greatest moment for me didn't happen during the session. It happened as people were finding their seats right after breakfast on the first day.

I ran into some familiar faces (👋 hi Morgan, Don, and Hayden), a dealer team who had attended my presentation at KBIS last year.

They are smart operators. And I knew they had left my talk last year fired up about implementing AI recordings, because we had chatted after the presentation.

So I asked the obvious question: "How’s it going? Did you implement it?"

The answer was honest: "Not yet."

And I get it — because nobody wants 14 more things to add to the list.

It wasn't that they didn't want to.

It wasn't that they didn't see the value.

It was simply that the daily grind took over.

They were too busy doing the work to work on the system that would save them from the work.

Yeah - they're not the only ones.

We all have a "Not Yet" list.

But in this industry, the cost of "Not Yet" is specific, and getting higher.

It looks like waking up at 2:14 AM. The house is quiet, but your brain is loud: "Did I switch that sink base to the 36-inch? Or did I order the 33-inch we talked about?"

Because we haven't implemented the system yet, we are stuck treating our brains like hard drives. We muscle through, hoping we didn't drop one of the 5,000 details we’re juggling.

I updated my AI Note-Taking Guide specifically for the "Not Yet" crowd.

I wanted to make it so easy to start that "Priority" couldn't be an excuse anymore.

It now includes a "Crisis Response Toolkit"—5 copy/paste prompts to handle high-stress moments like liability disputes and missing inventory.

You don't need to overhaul your whole business today. You just need to stop trusting your memory and start trusting the summary.

Get the Guide + The Crisis Toolkit

To Morgan, Don, and Hayden: it was great to see you! Let’s make this the year we turn "Not Yet" into "Done."

xo,

P.S. If you're wondering how the recording device handled a noisy room with 9 tables talking at once... it captured everything. If you are nervous about navigating disclosure of recordings, the scripts are in the guide. (The whole point is to work less... not more.)

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