How can one take advantage of AI while employed when the company doesn't officially deploy/allow it?

While I build my business, I still have a day job for a Fortune Global 500 company, which despite being a world-leading software company, is slow/adverse to adopting COTS tools for internal business. Being a software company, they like to develop their own things in-house, which typically leads to sub-par experiences, IMHO. For example, we don't use anything like Salesforce, just an antiquated internal CRM. I have the added complication of my group working with the U.S. Government, so our email is further segregated from the rest of the company. We have our own internal AI (because of course we do), but it's on a different network from my email. 📬

I want to buy back my time at my day job, so I can focus more on building my business (since I work many late nights on just my day job as it is), but basic things like using AI to tell me what emails are worth my attention, helping build automated responses and follow-up sequences, analyzing sales data, etc., all of which would greatly improve my productivity, I cannot do. It's sad that I have more capability and advanced tools in my extremely small startup. Wondering what advice anyone has who is currently employed for a corp that is slow to adopt new tech or seasoned AI pros that have interesting solutions. Thanks in advance! ☺️🙏

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