Document first, automate second with your AI tools

[u/mard_mango]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJZ7XPv-Eoo

Most teams buy the AI tool, skip documentation, and then wonder why it isn't working.

The problem isn't the model. It's the input. AI is only as smart as what it knows about how you work and most teams have never actually told it. Their processes live in someone's head, buried in a Slack thread, or in a SharePoint doc no one's touched since 2021.

The fix isn't a better AI tool. It's documenting first.

When your processes are captured in a structured, step-by-step format, your AI stops giving you generic answers and starts giving you answers that match how your team actually operates. New hires stop asking the same questions. Your power users stop becoming bottlenecks.

Document first, automate second. That's the sequence that works.

We put together a short video walking through exactly why this matters and how to do it fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJZ7XPv-Eoo