You Can't Afford a COO. So Build One. (AI in Operations 2026)
No hype. No guests. Just operational frameworks you can implement in your business today.
"The operators who are going to win the next five years are not the ones who used AI the most. They're the ones who built AI into their operations the most deliberately. There's a huge difference between dabbling and integrating. Dabbling gets you cool results sometimes. Integrating builds a machine"
Episode Overview
Fortune 500 companies have Chief Operating Officers whose entire job is to make sure the business runs efficiently , that decisions get made, nothing falls through the cracks, and the CEO can focus on growth. Small business owners have been doing that job themselves for years. And for years, the gap between them and a business that actually runs clean was one thing: they couldn't afford a COO. That gap just closed. Not because hiring got cheaper. Because AI made it possible to build one. This