Why AI Fails for 90% of Businesses & How To Fix It

Eric Siu (0:01)

If you have these AI superpowers, it kind of doesn't matter if your entire team isn't empowered by this, right?

And so what ultimately matters is actually making sure that you have the right workflows when it comes to recruiting. And so if you're a leader and you're watching this right now, you can just take the screenshot over here that I have on my screen, and you can figure out how do you make this into a workflow. Because literally, that's all my team is doing right now. We're making Grockbots, these talent Grockbots, right? And I was of the mindset before that we can train people up, that we're going to do these hackathons again, that we're going to do all these trainings, we're going to give everyone everything that they need when it comes to AI. Now, that's nice and that's certainly very important, and it's good that you're doing that as an organization, but that only meets people halfway.

They have to handle the other halfway.

Now, what does that mean? So if you think about it, if you want people that know how to use these things, they have to be AI native. What does it mean to be AI native? Well, that means you have to have a strong bias to action, okay? You have to have a strong relationship to change. You have to be very curious, meaning that you're learning all the time, and you're probably spending many hours a week on X. You can't just not be doing that, right? Because the people that are surfing on the frontier right now, they are on X all the time, and their algorithms are tuned in on following the best people when it comes to AI. And that's not that hard to do. You just need to use the Explore button and search AI, and all that toxic content that you might be seeing on X, it's not going to be there, right? Once your algorithm is tweaked, it's just going to be, you're going to have the content you follow all the time. So that's the first step. You yourself need to be AI-pilled if you're not already, which I trust that you are. Now, you're not going to be able to train people on having this mindset, because that is a journey that people need to go on on their own.

You can't make them do that, right? Just like, for example, you can't make someone diet well that hasn't died well before. They have to decide to do that on their own. Or same thing with someone who hasn't worked out a lot before. That is something that they have to, again, they have to decide on their own, because it's a journey that they need to go on, right? So what I'm showing you on my screen over here is that this is a recruiting funnel that we use. This is just a recruiting workflow, OK? So what does our recruiting workflow do inside of Grokbot? It will source. It will look for all the inbound applications. It will also do outbound as well. It will also use LinkedIn Recruiter. It will also handle XDM. So people, when they DM me on X, when my team does a post, that's one piece, right? But then when we do outbound, it will also evaluate people in terms of, hey, what is their tenure? How many promotions do they have? Is this the right title? So it will screen that. If they fail that, then they don't get to go to the next step. Then if they say yes, if they're interested in a role, then we'll send them these 7 questions, which I'm going to show you in a moment. So you want to stay till the end so you can get the 7 questions, because this is going to make your life a lot easier. You actually don't need to hire more people to help you screen or more people to help you source. You just use this workflow and it helps you focus on hiring the AI native people. And that's going to give you a massive advantage for the next year or two. I fundamentally believe that. So the next one is going to be, okay, if they reply, we're going to evaluate them. So based on how many hours are they spending on X per week? That's one of the questions. We'll be asking them to send a loom video as well. Then only then if they pass, if they're shortlisted over here, then we will send them to a human screen. Then we'll have them do a paid project, and then maybe there'll be a follow-up talk. But that is how this works. But if they fail any of these, they just get blocked and they don't get to move forward. And so what's happening over here? These are the seven questions, but we have this talent bot, and this is the evidence first recruiting operator for the Single Grain team. And we've made this into a team Grock bot, so this lives inside of Slack, and so the team can talk to it as well, and they can operate this too. So this makes recruiting a team game. If you want to bring on these AI native people, you need to have these bots helping you, and you need to have your team helping you. And guess who's going to care the most about these people coming in? The hiring manager. You think the recruiter is going to care the most? They might care, but they can't care nearly as much as a recruiter is going to care. And by the way, when it comes to taste, the recruiter is not going to have as much taste as the hiring manager is in terms of what they want and what they need exactly. By the way, if you're enjoying this right now, you got to check out SingleBrain. So SingleBrain is where we help companies with AI implementation, specifically AI marketing implementation, where we scale ad creative, we're able to scale AEO SEO campaigns, Reddit campaigns, we're able to scale cold outbound infrastructure and a lot more. And the cool thing is we build this, these bots that live inside of your Slack and Microsoft teams and our team collaborates as well. So you get the data pulls a lot faster, you get the execution a lot faster, we just move a lot faster and all the work compounds a lot faster. SingleBrain with a B, singlebrain.com, I'll see you on the other side. And also, recruiting can become such a mess. If you want it to be a well-oiled machine, then you probably need a machine to do the work. If you want the same exact questions happening over and over, you want them to evaluate on the same questions, you want the same thing happening all the time, humans, us humans, it doesn't matter how detail-orientated you are, we're just not going to follow a process to a T every single time. We're just not like that. We're emotional beings, we're emotional creatures, and we like to do things our own way.