By Jonathan Dowden on Small Business UK – Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
To demonstrate the potential of AI, Sage asked David Abrahamovitch, the founder of coffee chain Grind, to share the many ways he’s benefiting from it.
From empowering his finance team, to enhancing the way he works with his accountant, David finds generative AI and automation helps him perform faster and at a much higher level.
Read on for real-world takeaways you can implement today.
Become a strategic powerhouse
You’ve heard the grand promises about how AI is the future for small businesses. You’ve seen some impressive demos.
But how does automation and generative AI fit in with the things you actually do?
For David, the shift came when he realised generative AI could enhance how he works with his accountant.
He says: “I realised I couldn’t get the information, or the way that the accountant needed it, and it ended up just being like 50 or 60 individual PDFs.”
He used AI to consolidate everything he needed.
“In two minutes, I had [it] perfectly formatted,” adds David. “I was like, ‘OK, wow, this is amazing.’”
Automation is great but AI is even better
While automation makes life easier by automating process steps to get you from point A