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Here's what's actually happening at most companies right now: somebody in accounting pastes customer data into a free chatbot to draft a collections email. Somebody in operations uploads a contract to summarize it. Nobody approved it, nobody logged it, and nobody knows where that data went.
The other version of the story is the company that banned AI entirely. No chatbots, no exceptions. Their people quietly use it on personal phones anyway, and their competitors are closing the same workload with smaller teams.
Both paths cost you. There's a third one, and it's where we spend most of our time now: AI built into applications you own, doing specific jobs in your business, with your data staying under your control.