Gai Insights LLC

Today, we're gonna be tacking, uh, tackling a question that almost every CEO, board, and leadership team is confronting right now: How much should we actually invest in training our people to use AI? Companies are spending billions on AI platforms, copilots, agents, and infrastructure, but technology alone doesn't create transformation.

People have to know how to use it, and more importantly, how to design the way they work around it.

My guest today is Paul Baier, founder and CEO ofGAI Insights, an AI research and training firm helping asset managers and other organization accelerate AI adoption across their own operations and portfolio companies.

He brings a fascinating perspective to this discussion.

He spent 25 years as a software entrepreneur, has written about enterprise AI for Harvard Business Review and Forbes, and founded the Daily AI News show, which has now surpassed 650 episodes.

I have a very strong AI background.

I actually co-founded a company called GAI Insights, that's out of Boston, back in t- late 2022, early 2023.

I think when, um, Solo kind of approached me, it's a former colleague of mine that used to work with me at General Motors.

He ran finance when I was running Cadillac marketing, and he called and said, "Hey, you know, we're looking for somebody to join this consumer products brand in retail." He knew I had also worked with Fanatics for about three and a half years, which was, you know, a D2C kind of textbook case.

While AI budgets have surged, the discipline required to make AI, AI stick has not kept pace.

The pressure to implement AI has created a top-down urgency that bypasses the very change management practices proven to make transformation last Research from GAI Insights published in Harvard Business Review found that most organizations still treat generative AI as a form of traditional automation, something you install once and expect to behave predictably.

That is the wrong model.

Gen AI performs best as an assistive agent that gets smarter and makes the people around it smarter over time.