The Artificially Intelligent Enterprise

12/23/2025

You’re paying $30 per user per month for Microsoft 365 Copilot. 💸

Most teams are using it like a fancy autocomplete.

Last week’s AI Lesson breaks down 7 advanced Copilot features most users miss — tools that quietly turn Copilot from a helper into something closer to an internal AI team:

🧠 Researcher & Analyst agents for real multi-step work
📊 AI inside Excel formulas (yes, really)
📝 Memory that actually learns how you work
⚙️ Agent mode that builds dashboards end-to-end

These aren’t previews or experiments. They’re live, included in your license, and already separating power users from everyone else.

👉 Read this edition before the next one drops — and make sure you’re getting $300/month of value from the $30 you’re already paying.

The enterprise AI capabilities hiding behind your $30/month subscription—and how to actually use them

12/22/2025

Looking for a Christmas gift that actually pays off in 2026? 🎁

All Things AI Conference is heading to Durham, NC (March 23–24, 2026) — bringing together AI practitioners, business leaders, and builders for two days focused on real-world AI, not hype.

✨ Day 1: Hands-on workshops (AI for DevOps + AI for Business)
✨ Day 2: Keynotes, lightning talks, and deep dives across 4 tracks
✨ Hosted in the heart of RTP — where tech, talent, and ideas collide

Perfect as a holiday gift for yourself, your team, or that AI-curious colleague! 🎄

🎟️ Grab your tickets now and give future-you a serious edge.

Buy here: https://cstu.io/cf7e91

12/22/2025

Agentic AI just hit its “Linux moment.”❗

This week’s AI Deep Dive breaks down a quiet but critical shift happening right now: the agentic AI ecosystem has crystallized around two foundations solving two very different problems — and enterprises that understand both will move faster in 2025 and beyond.

🔹 AAIF (Agentic AI Foundation)

• Enterprise-grade governance
• Open standards like MCP and Goose
• Neutral ground where OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft & others collaborate
• The missing signal procurement teams have been waiting for

🔹 Agentics Foundation

• 100k+ practitioners globally
• Hands-on learning, hackathons, meetups
• Real-world implementation knowledge you won’t find in vendor docs
• A low-barrier on-ramp for builders

💡 The key insight:

This isn’t competition — it’s complementarity.
Formal governance in the front, builder community in the back.
An “AI mullet” that’s exactly how mature tech ecosystems win.

In the Deep Dive, we cover:

✅ Why MCP is already the de facto integration layer
✅ How governance unlocks enterprise adoption
✅ Where most companies are making costly missteps
✅ What to budget, build, and engage with now

👉 Read the full Deep Dive on the site — including the AI Toolbox, a strategic Productivity Prompt, and insights that didn’t fit in the email.

If agentic AI is on your 2025 roadmap, this is required reading.

When enterprises need governance and practitioners need community, the smart money builds both

12/18/2025

Most companies think they know how AI is being used. They don’t.

Leaders see licenses, dashboards, and usage stats…

But miss where the real value (and risk) is actually happening.

This week’s Prompt of the Week helps you step back and ask a better question. 👇

👉 How is AI truly being used across the organization—and what are we not measuring?

This framework helps you:

🔍 Separate assumption from reality
📊 Identify hidden value beyond “productivity”
🏢 Understand AI usage team by team
⚡ Spot quick wins you can act on immediately

If you’re responsible for AI strategy, governance, or transformation, this prompt is a must-have in your toolkit.

Check out the carousel for the full prompt. ⬇️

📬 Stay tuned for tomorrow’s edition—we’ll go deeper on what most AI leaders still get wrong.

12/16/2025

All Things AI returns—4× bigger and better. Two days designed for people who don’t just talk about AI, but actually use it.

Day 1: Training Day – hands-on, practical sessions to sharpen your AI skills fast.
Day 2: Conference Day – industry leaders, real-world case studies, and what’s next in AI.

More speakers. More space. More applied learning you can take back to work immediately.

If you’re serious about deploying, managing, or building with AI—this is your event.

🗓️ March 23–24, 2026
📍 Carolina Theatre & Durham Convention Center
🎟️ Grab your tickets here: https://cstu.io/87033d

12/16/2025

AI Reality Check: 73% of ChatGPT use isn’t work-related 🚨

A new NBER deep dive analyzing 18B ChatGPT messages/week shows how people actually use AI—not surveys, not assumptions, real data.

Here’s what stood out:

🧠 AI is infrastructure for daily life - 73% of usage is personal (up from 53% last year). This isn’t slacking—it’s how people build AI fluency.

✍️ Writing dominates (but not how you think) - 24% of all usage is writing—and 2/3 is editing, not creating. AI is a thinking partner, not a ghostwriter.

❓ Asking beats Doing - “Thinking with AI” (decision support, learning, sense-making) delivers higher satisfaction than task automation.

💻 Coding is only 4.2% - Despite the hype, education and practical guidance matter more than programming.

Enterprise takeaway:

If you only measure productivity, you’re missing 70%+ of the value. The real impact is better decisions, faster learning, and stronger judgment.

AI isn’t just doing work—it’s shaping how people think.

👉 How are you measuring AI value in your organization today—output… or insight? Let us know in the comments below and read the full deep dive and put the insights to work.

The Data Behind 18 Billion Messages

12/13/2025

Calling founders, operators, builders, and curious minds. ⚡ All Things AI is happening again in 2026! And we’re making it even bigger. Be part of the event that moves the conversation forward.

Grab your tickets now before they sell out.

https://cstu.io/5c752b
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12/11/2025

🚀 Your biggest AI breakthrough won’t come from a YouTube video — it’ll come from the room you choose to be in.

On March 23–24, 2026, the All Things AI Conference is taking over downtown Durham — bringing together the builders, operators, and leaders who are actually shaping the future of AI.

This isn’t another hype fest.
It’s where you learn the stuff everyone else will figure out a year from now.

🔥 Day 1: Hands-on workshops (AI for DevOps, AI for Business Pros)
🔥 Day 2: Keynotes, lightning talks & 4 full tracks of real AI knowledge

If you want:

✔️ To level up your AI skills
✔️ To meet the people driving this industry
✔️ To get ahead while everyone else is still “figuring it out”

…then this is the conference you cannot skip.

Grab yours before they’re gone. Be where the future is being built.

Get your tickets here: https://cstu.io/56d8fb

All Things AI is an AI practitioners and users conference focused on technologies, processes, and people.

12/11/2025

Most teams use AI every day, but almost none define what their AI is actually accountable for. 🔥

This week’s Productivity Prompt walks you through creating clear AI job descriptions—so your tools operate with defined scope, boundaries, and KPIs instead of guesswork. If AI is acting like a junior team member, it deserves the same clarity and oversight.

Watch out for tomorrow’s edition of The Artificially Intelligent Enterprise — we’re diving deeper into how to structure AI roles that are precise, risk-aware, and aligned with your team’s performance. 👉 Don’t miss out—subscribe and stay ahead of how AI is reshaping real work.

12/09/2025

Last week’s AI Lesson was all about mastering Google Gemini — and honestly, it might be one of the most important upgrades to your daily workflow this year.

If you spend your day inside Google Workspace, Gemini is no longer a “nice-to-have.” It’s quietly transforming how teams create decks, analyze data, prep for meetings, and ship work faster.

From “Beautify this slide” in Slides…
to multi-step automation in Sheets…
to Deep Research pulling directly from your Gmail, Drive, and Chat…
the real shift is this: AI is now built into the tools you already use, not bolted on.

Last week’s edition breaks down:

✨ How to access Gemini across Workspace
✨ The new presentation + deck-generation workflows
✨ Multi-step task automation in Sheets
✨ Deep Research for real internal insights
✨ Audio Overviews that turn your docs into podcasts
✨ What Gemini can’t do yet (so you don’t waste time)
✨ Advanced techniques to level up your productivity

If you’re choosing between Microsoft + OpenAI or Google + Gemini, this guide helps you make the call — and use the tools the way they were meant to be used.

And stay tuned — today’s AI Lesson drops later, and you won’t want to miss it. 🚀

🔗 Read last week’s full AI Lesson here:

A Practical Guide to the AI Features Reshaping the Productivity Suite

12/08/2025

Workforce 2.0 is here — and it’s not about replacing people. It’s about rewiring how work actually gets done.

This week’s edition of The Artificially Intelligent Enterprise dives into a shift I’m seeing across every industry:
AI is no longer a tool you “use.” It’s becoming part of the workforce.

🏢 Duolingo boosted content production 4–5x with the same team.
💼 Morgan Stanley hit 98% adoption across 20,000 advisors.
⚙️ Cisco trained 35,000 employees and saw 30–50% productivity gains.

The takeaway?
AI doesn’t eliminate jobs — it eliminates friction.
Or as Marc Sirkin says: “AI isn’t coming for your job. It’s coming for your workflows.”

In this week’s deep dive, we break down:

✨ The new AI + Human Operating Model
✨ Why the next 90 days are critical for leaders
✨ How to define AI “job descriptions”
✨ The role of AI Champions inside every organization
✨ Common missteps that slow transformation
✨ The S.M.A.R.T. framework for scaling AI responsibly
✨ Plus: This week’s AI Toolbox on agent orchestration

If you’re building for 2025–2026, this is the operating manual.

Let’s build the future of work—intentionally!

Read the full edition here:

Not just who does the work—how it gets managed, measured, and governed.

12/05/2025

The Black Friday sale on Early Bird tickets for All Things AI 2026 ends TODAY. Register today and save 20% off Early Bird prices for workshops (Monday) and traditional conference day programming (Tuesday). Check out the details and register today!