AI is quickly becoming a competitive advantage. If you're not leveraging it, someone else in your market is.
I've interviewed 65+ Idaho CEOs, founders, and leaders across 20+ industries to find what's real and what's just hype. Wondering how you compare?
In their own words: how Idaho business leaders are actually thinking about AI, what's working, and what they'd tell everyone else.
35 years building in the Treasure Valley. He turned 60,000 company emails into one searchable database, and says AI makes you faster, not smarter.
Read Shannon's story →Most contractors can't tell you what they made yesterday. Tyler tracks it from the field to the office in real time, and says AI is worthless without the data underneath it.
Read Tyler's story →18 years at the world's largest equipment rental company. His take: the biggest AI win for small contractors is documenting finished work so they get paid faster.
Read Ryan's story →Answer 10 quick questions and see where you land, from Getting Started to Ahead of the Curve, plus honest next steps built from what works in the field.
Take the assessment →Everyone says the trades are slow to adopt. But the leaders I talked to already know exactly what they want. Nobody's built it yet.
Read the dispatch →A near-miss on a crane job, and what it taught me about safety. The best safety mind in the company is usually stuck in one person's head. That's changing.
Read the dispatch →Idaho real estate leaders don't want AI to replace relationships. They want it to clear the busy work standing in the way.
Read the dispatch →Last dispatch was the problem, this one's the wishlist. What these leaders actually want AI to do, and why almost none of them have it yet.
Read the dispatch →Healthcare leaders know AI could help. They're frozen anyway. And their staff is quietly using it regardless.
Read the dispatch →The frozen practices know the risk. A few figured out how to get the upside without it. Here's what they did differently.
Read the dispatch →I'm Will. I graduated from Boise State and took a job at Ventive, an AI company here in the valley. This series is me trying to understand what's actually happening inside Idaho businesses, and writing down what I find. If this hit a nerve, if you've got a story for the next dispatch, or if you have questions about how AI fits into your own business, reach out.
Reach out →Backed by Ventive, 12+ years building software and AI.
AI chatbots trained on private company data. An industrial safety-compliance platform that replaced the binders. Automation that saved one client 50 hours a week.
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