This is the most interesting time I've known in business. AI is real, and it's going to reward the companies that get the fundamentals right. It's also going to punish the ones that don't, faster than anything before it.
Here's the trap. Most companies selling complex products and services assume the problem is leads. More marketing, more content, more activity. Usually the real problem sits upstream: the business was never designed to convert. Long sales cycles, constant price pressure, good work that still loses on price.
AI doesn't fix that. It scales it. Bolt AI onto a broken conversion process and you get the same result, faster and more expensive.
So the sequence matters. Design how you convert. Then scale it. That's the whole idea, and it's what I help companies do.