They are not, definitely not most people‘s jobs.

I’m a CEO myself and no matter what hatred this might induce from the ‚I just hit puberty and capitalism is bad although I happily live in it‘ Reddit crowd, we did start early.

First PoCs were functional in the beginning of 2023, first with customer communication, then marketing as a whole, then financial analysis and forecasting, then, and this is where we‘re at right now, replacing about 80-90% of our jobs to external law firms.

Headcount went from 128 to a bit less than 80. Because we didn’t just replace but also went from ‚AI 101‘ to hiring specialists together with DataBricks and doing joint projects, both productivity AND job satisfaction per employee increased significantly.

Of course EBITDA and EBIT (we‘re not publicly traded, so actually making real profits is my job, not fundraising BS) went up and they went up the quickest they ever have in the 15 yo history of this company.

I founded it, I finance it, we run it together and now we also have AI as a resource (OSS LLMs finetuned in our proprietary datasets as well as ML solutions for strategic , multi-branch forecasting).

This is a European company and we are of course adherent to both the AI Act as well as DSGVO.

So yes, it’s the job of a CEO to continuously improve productivity. Maybe it’s a European twist but I also know 100% that we’d fail if it was just a skeleton crew and many agents, so we used AI to actually decrease the ‘context window’ our employees have to deal with on a daily basis. In a world that appears to be falling apart, this was rewarded by both a stronger identification with the company and its goals as well as sign economic improvements.

I’m sure this won’t apply for all types of business but I’m pretty damn confident by now it applies for enough to be considered an essential for pretty much every company/group that does business in a competitive environment and intends to make money.