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AI + Lean: Using Artificial Intelligence to Find Bottlenecks Faster

If you could see every delay, misstep, and hidden slowdown inside your process in real time, how fast could your business improve? Most companies rely on tribal knowledge or end of month reports to discover operational problems, but by then the damage is already done. The real opportunity is using AI to pinpoint bottlenecks as they happen, allowing Lean principles to do what they do best: remove waste,...

12/01/2025
Before You Automate: Map the Process First

If your business is constantly putting out fires, automation will not save you. In fact, it may accelerate the chaos. Before you add software, AI, or automations to smooth out the work, you need something far more fundamental: a clear, accurate map of how the process actually works today. I saw this firsthand with a pool service company losing customers and cash simply because no one understood the...

11/24/2025
The Hidden Cost of Inefficiency: Why Your Process Waste Is Bleeding Profit

If you walked into your business tomorrow and discovered that 10 percent of your annual revenue was leaking out of a single broken process, would you drop everything to fix it? Most owners would say yes, yet many do not realize this is already happening behind the scenes. In fact, one of my recent clients was stunned to learn that a slow, tangled internal approval workflow was silently...

11/17/2025