Efficient Minds - I wanted to see if AI takes my job.
I’m a Productivity Consultant. I look at processes, people, tools and plans. There are so many ways to complicate what I do, to sell fear and to charge more. I’ve been working with AI for almost 2 years now, and I wanted to test productivity against what I do.
The first thing to say is that AI is a wonderful leveller. AI helps you simplify everything. That is, of course, if you see simplification as a way of saving money.
Welcome to Efficientminds.co.uk, your pocket management consultant.
Could AI deliver the following?:
- Brainstorming
- Project Management
- Database Build
- React / Next.js for web
- React Native / Expo for IOS/Android
- Edge functions, SQL, Python, Api Routes, Hosting solutions
- Protyping
- Sample Data
- Marketing
- Elevator pitch
- Videos
- Branding
- Sales plan
The answer is a resounding yes.
In the very near past, I have costed similar projects to be in the region of £30 to £50k and take between 3 to 6 months with one senior developer, two juniors, a project manager and some branding.
I have delivered this myself using:
https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/
So the question is, am I redundant?
Some will think so, but for me, the opportunities of AI far outweigh the threats.
I do not deal with complex medical, scientific or legal processes. I know that AI is headlining in these areas with various degrees of simultaneous success and hype.
I deal with business critical supporting processes:
- IT
- Administration
- Operations
- HR
- Finance
- Projects
- Marketing
- Sales
And with the best will in the world, and contrary to all the grandiose business agendas which over-inflate their importance, they are not rocket science.
I know that we are in the midst of an AI revolution which will change the landscape of business processes for ever. In fact I foresee a continual loop of change as tools develop, most notably this year will see the advent of agentic AI.
All processes within a business will be changed, automated and undertaken by tools.
This is what Efficientminds is, …. and I’m delighted with it.
Efficientminds is 100% built with AI in order to showcase what this revolution is changing for business. I hear obstacles to its implementation from business people who unfortunately are likely to be most affected by it.
If you have placed the analysis of the benefits to your business with your IT people, you have made a rookie mistake.
AI technologies have already removed the majority of processes in all IT departments and automated the solutions. I see a minimum of 40% cost savings.
The tools being presented to the market from established vendors such as Microsoft are remarkably good. Disrupters that fill a gap, or simply work better at a cheaper price, like Slack, Monday.com or ClickUp are simply fantastic to use.
But my focus is always the same; how are they saving you money?
Correctly implemented modern AI assisted tools will make you more productive by undertaking processes and tasks and removing the need for people.
Are you saving money on people?
Efficientminds is built to answer that question for you. More quickly and cheaper than in any other way. In itself it is productivity.
In this particular domain, there are simple historical examples when the industrial revolution started making machines to do the manual work of people. Again this is not rocket science.
The main difference is that the AI revolution is just starting.
The robots are not coming, but agentic AI will change the relationships business has with its people, suppliers and customers.
Get in contact to see how Efficientminds will save you money.
James Pickering
