The final layer is human
Oct 22, 2026 · 4 min · 4 segments
An investing app can pick the fund but it cannot keep you from selling it at the bottom.
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Oct 22, 2026 · 4 min · 4 segments
An investing app can pick the fund but it cannot keep you from selling it at the bottom.
Dhirendra KumarHost
There's a spate of articles and social media posts in recent months about what is called the AI roll-up business strategy.
Put a layer of AI on its operations, thereby reducing costs and increasing the margins.
Better still, acquire several similar businesses and roll them up into one with a single AI layer on top.
Acquire and implement AI has apparently become the plan for private equity and other usual suspects.
However, someone who has been in this kind of an activity had an excellent analysis.
This person said that the opportunity for AI improving business operations is real.
Because it can indeed, if implemented well, cut administrative effort and thereby increase margins.
The human aspect of sustaining a business over a period of time, the daily firefighting that every entrepreneur does, is something that the machine won't do.
This actually applies quite well to retail investors' personal investments too.
There's a spate of articles and social media posts in recent months about what is called the AI roll-up business strategy.
Put a layer of AI on its operations, thereby reducing costs and increasing the margins.
Better still, acquire several similar businesses and roll them up into one with a single AI layer on top.
Acquire and implement AI has apparently become the plan for private equity and other usual suspects.
However, someone who has been in this kind of an activity had an excellent analysis.
This person said that the opportunity for AI improving business operations is real.
Because it can indeed, if implemented well, cut administrative effort and thereby increase margins.
The human aspect of sustaining a business over a period of time, the daily firefighting that every entrepreneur does, is something that the machine won't do.
This actually applies quite well to retail investors' personal investments too.
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