ai-opportunity-auditlisted

# AI Opportunity Audit Most people start with a tool and go looking for a problem. That's backwards, and it's why so much AI spend produces nothing. Start with the hours. This skill finds where your time actually goes, scores each candidate, and hands you three things to do this week — not twenty. ## Failure modes — read these first **Automating a broken process.** This is the expensive one. If a process has six steps that exist only because of a problem you fixed two years ago, automating it means you now run the nonsense faster and forever. Fix or delete the process first. That's what `process-to-sop` is for. **Picking the interesting problem over the expensive one.** The fascinating quarterly reporting puzzle is worth less than the boring 20-minute thing you do five times a week. Score honestly and the boring thing wins almost every time. **Counting hours you won't actually reclaim.** Saving ten minutes in six unrelated places does not give you an hour back — it gives you six slightly shorter interruptions. Weight savings that consolidate into real blocks of time, and be suspicious of anything that only shaves the edges. **Buying enterprise tooling for a small business.** A four-person landscaping company does not need a CRM with territory management. Oversized tools fail at adoption, not at features. Right- size or don't bother. **Automating the thing that is your actual product.** If clients pay you for your judgment, your taste, or the fact that it was *you* who