What if your AI wins were hiding in your most boring problems?

The real game-changers aren't necessarily the flash AI demos but, instead, the biggest wins could come from using AI to tackle everyday annoyances that quietly eat up your time:

❌ Spending half an hour after every meeting typing up notes and action items

❌ Tracking down crumpled receipts to file an expense report

❌ Copying status updates from twelve different apps for a single report

❌ Sorting emails and forwarding them over and over

❌ Tedious data entry or converting info between mismatched systems

Maybe you're a Project Manager that spends hours every Friday gathering project updates from Slack, Jira, emails and endless spreadsheets. 

Instead, you could use AI to set up a simple automation that collects everything in one place and formats it automatically. It might take you two hours to set up, but then saves you four hours every week, about 200 hours per year.

Or you're a finance team stuck sorting expense receipts by hand, at least half an hour per employee, every month. With AI scanning and categorising receipts, the team can shift their focus to strategic tasks like analysing budgets.

Why does focusing on these “boring” problems pay off?

✔️ The return on investment is obvious, track your time and costs, and you’ll see the savings

✔️ It’s low risk: if something goes wrong, it’s easy to fix

✔️ Everyone benefits immediately, so people actually use the solution

✔️ You see real value in the first week, not months down the line

Companies that start by automating these boring tasks quickly build confidence and experience. Then, tackling bigger, more ambitious AI projects feels a lot more manageable.

🚀 For business leaders: Your biggest AI payoff may not be in your core product. Instead, it’s in removing invisible admin barriers that slow everyone down.

🚀 For project managers: What repetitive project chores could AI take off your plate, so you spend more time on strategy instead of routine work?