You’re Probably Making This Huge Hiring Mistake

What most founders don’t realize is that their biggest issue is that their workforce isn’t AI-ready– and that could be costing them millions.

What we’re living through right now isn’t just the adoption of new software, but a generational shift in how work gets done. It’s the same way millennials reshaped businesses during the digital transformation; a new wave of AI-native talent is entering the workforce with an entirely different operating baseline.

The New Baseline for High-Performing Talent

Here’s something that hit me hard recently while thinking about hiring:

The top candidates today aren’t waiting for permission to learn AI. They’re already doing it.

The strongest hires I see already have at least some experience with:

• Using and experimenting with LLMs 

• AI tool adoption and prompt engineering

• Internal tool building and workflow optimization

They don’t see custom AI workflows as “extra.” They see them as the default way work should happen.

And when you hire people like this into the right roles, the performance gap becomes obvious really fast.

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What Happens When You Hire AI-Forward Roles at Scale

When you hire one AI-curious person, you get a marginal improvement. But when you hire your next 10-20 roles with this mindset, your entire culture shifts.

Here’s what I’ve consistently seen:

• Executive Assistants suddenly have more leverage with fewer manual tasks

• Marketing roles produce more (and better) content without adding headcount

• Operators and managers oversee more people or clients with less friction

• Internal velocity increases because fewer tasks rely on hand-offs and memory

Nothing feels chaotic; things just move faster.

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Three Things You Can Do Today to Implement This

1. Update your hiring scorecards. Add “AI curiosity” and “experience with custom AI workflows” as explicit evaluation criteria.
   

2. Redesign one role for AI leverage. Pick a single position and ask: What would this look like if 30-40% of the manual work disappeared?
   

3. Stop hiring for static skill sets. Hire for adaptability and systems thinking. Tools will change, leverage compounds.

AI isn’t replacing your team. But teams that know how to work alongside custom AI development and workflows are replacing the ones that don’t.

If you want help mapping out which roles should evolve first, and how to build AI-forward positions that actually drive margin and scale, book a call here.

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