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What NOT to Automate
The AI Strategy Playbook for Business Owners Who Want to Get It RightBy Brian Gibbs
Length6h 41m
About this audiobook
I sat with a business owner whose team was moving faster than ever after rolling out AI. I asked him one thing: "Who is actually making the decisions now?" That question stopped him cold.
Most companies won't run into trouble because they ignored AI. They'll run into trouble because they automated the wrong calls.
A service company let a bot handle intake. It was polite and fast, but it had no judgment. It started committing to work they couldn't deliver. They traded decades of hard-earned trust for six months of speed.
This is not a reason to avoid AI. Control is not the opposite of acceleration. It is what makes acceleration safe. The brakes are what allow you to drive fast without dying.
In this audiobook, I'm giving you the operational playbook built from years of seeing what works and what fails expensively. Delegating execution is a strategy for growth. Delegating judgment is a strategy for obsolescence.
This technology is the most powerful tool we've ever seen. Stop fumbling it.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics
Length6 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Dedication
3Introduction
4Who This Book Is For
5How This Book Works
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6Act I: Think Like a Strategist.
7Act II: Build the Machine.
8Act III: Play Offense.
9What to Expect
10Act I
11Chapter 1: AI Is an Operating Decision
12The Operating Decision
13The Interface Trap
14Shadow AI: The Decision You Didn't Make
15The New Threat: Adversarial Risk
16The Friction Fallacy
17The 4-Gate Pilot Protocol
18Gate 1: The Liability Audit.
19Gate 2: The Red Line.
20Gate 3: The Kill Date.
21Gate 4: The Adversarial Stress Test.
22The SaaS Blind Spot
23The Owner’s Playbook
24Chapter 2: Where the Money Is
25The Opportunity Most Owners Miss
26The Senior Salary Trap
27The Market You Can't Afford to Serve
28The Five-Thousand-Dollar Mistake
29The AI Opportunity Audit
30The Cost of Standing Still
31The Owner’s Playbook
32Chapter 3: Hands vs. Head
33The Apprentice
34What Good Sorting Looks Like
35What Bad Sorting Looks Like
36The Context Blind Spot
37The Task Audit Matrix
38Quadrant 1: The Factory Floor (Low Context, Low Risk).
39Quadrant 3: The Danger Zone (Low Context, High Risk).
40Quadrant 4: The Boardroom (High Context, High Risk).
41The No-Mix Zone
42The Owner’s Playbook
43Chapter 4: The Real Cost of AI
44What Happens When You Don’t Budget
45The Water Balloon Effect
46Line Item 1: Supervision
47Line Item 2: Correction
48Line Item 3: Coordination
49Line Item 4: Attention
50The Liability Dimension
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