Your best people already use AI. Quietly. Personally.
That's individual leverage, and it walks out the door at 5 o'clock. It lives in personal accounts, private prompts, and one person's head. It makes your best people faster, and it makes the gap between your best and the rest of the team wider every month.
Institutional capability is what the business owns: systems in production, playbooks anyone can run, teams trained together, prompts and context that survive a resignation. It compounds, it transfers, and it shows up in the valuation when you sell.
Most “we're using AI” companies have the first and confuse it for the second. The honest check: list the AI workflows your business would still run if your most tech-forward employee quit on Friday. For most companies, the list is empty.
Converting individual leverage into institutional capability is the whole job. It's also the part that doesn't happen by itself, because the people with the leverage have no incentive to give it away and no time to systematize it. Someone has to build the institution's version on purpose.
15 minutes. No deck. No spam. Bring the process that annoys you most and I'll tell you straight whether AI belongs anywhere near it.