No fluff, just real talk. I'm in the middle of building my online business around my expertise and honestly? Some days I feel like I'm figuring it out as I go. Right now I'm focused on three things: 1. Nailing my offer: I know what I'm good at. I'm just making sure I'm packaging it in a way that actually solves a real problem for real people. Still tweaking it. 2. Finding my voice: There's a lot of noise out there. I'm not trying to sound like everyone else, I want people to read my stuff and just know it's me. 3. Getting my website up: Actually got someone helping me pull it together. Nothing fancy just a clean simple home base that represents what I do. It's a work in progress but it's moving. Some weeks feel like massive progress. Other weeks I question everything. But I keep going because I know this is worth building. Anyone else juggling a bunch of things at once right now? Would love to know what you're working on drop it below We're all figuring this out. Might as well do it together.

A company spent $1.2 million on an AI platform. Six months later, the frontline employees built a workaround in Excel. A spreadsheet beat a million-dollar platform. And it wasn't even close. I keep seeing the same fight play out. One side says "change the culture first, then bring the tools." The other side says "just ship the tools, the culture will follow." Both sides have PowerPoints. Neither side is listening. Here's what actually determines which one comes first: you have to figure out whether your people are resisting the CHANGE or resisting the TOOL. Those are completely different problems. A manufacturing company I worked with rolled out an AI system that could predict equipment failures 72 hours in advance. Technically brilliant. The maintenance crew ignored it completely. Why? Nobody told them it was coming. Nobody asked what problems they actually had. And the first time the system flagged a false positive, the crew chief said, "See? Told you. Computers don't know machines." Done. Whole team wrote it off in one sentence. A year later, same company brought in a change management consultant. Six months of workshops, ride-alongs, small pilots. Then they reintroduced the exact same tool. Same platform. Same algorithms. Adoption hit 78%. Same tool. Different culture. Completely different result. But before you think culture-first always wins, here's the other side. A former client of mine spent eight months on "AI readiness." Surveys. Town halls. Change champions. Eight months of preparation. Zero AI in production. Competitor advantage: gone. Meanwhile, another firm in the same industry just picked one team, handed them an AI tool, and said "try it for two weeks." No fanfare. No transformation workshop. No forty-seven-slide deck with a stock photo of a handshake. Two weeks later, that team asked for more licenses. So here's the diagnostic I use with clients. 3 questions: Previous tech rollouts failed? If yes, culture first. You're fighting scar tissue from the last time leadership promised a miracle tool.

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Looking forward to seeeing everyone at the webinar today! I think you guys will really enjoy this if you are wanting to learn how to use ai to help you with your business ops. We are also giving away a few resources for those who stay until the end! If you haven’t signed up there is still a few more minutes: https://www.skool.com/thecheddarchase/special-event-end-of-this-month?p=a59530e3

Tomorrow me and @William Guidry are having a live session about opencode and business. If you can make it, I think you will find it very helpful. You can read more about it and register for it over here https://www.skool.com/thecheddarchase/special-event-end-of-this-month?p=a59530e3