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What keeps repeating across companies when they talk about AI, told through concrete cases, without alarm. You'll learn something even if you never buy anything.
"We already have ChatGPT, but I don't know if it's doing anything for us"
I heard the same line at three different companies this week. All three have active licenses, none has a usage policy, and none can say what process actually changed. The problem isn't the tool.
What a forty-minute quote actually costs
The full calculation, step by step: people, hours, the cost of the hour with employer burden included. And why that number has to exist before you buy anything.
Licenses nobody's auditing: how to find them in an afternoon
A three-step procedure using the corporate card statement and a spreadsheet. No new software.
The second use case has to cost less than the first
It's the most honest indicator that the capability actually stayed in-house. If the second one costs the same, what you bought was a vendor, not judgment.