
The Advice Your AI Vendor Can’t Give You
Buy the platform. It’s the floor, not the strategy. And the company selling it to you can’t give you the one piece of advice that matters: what to build that needs less of it.
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Buy the platform. It’s the floor, not the strategy. And the company selling it to you can’t give you the one piece of advice that matters: what to build that needs less of it.
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YC warns founders off work that turns on human judgment, because it can’t be scaled. That’s exactly the work your firm hands over unbilled.
“Biglaw is like an ocean liner. Because of longstanding culture, staffing models, and compensation, they are locked into a cycle where efficiency doesn’t help the bottom line.” Conrad Everhard, founding partner at Flatiron Partners.
“Partners are talking about AI but aren’t quite sure where to start.” Jody Padar wrote that about accounting firms. Every vertical I work in has the same sentence in it.