I work for a small tech franchise and I found out I can do my job through AI. I also figured out how to implement AI into my colleagues workflows and made them twice as productive. Is there a way I can pitch my services to corporate? Anyone have experience doing this shit? It's not software I'm pitching but training services, I've managed to increase sales by 20% and product listing speed by 50% in the last 3 months with this method and were the #1 store on the "leaderboard". How do I pitch this and frame it correctly for higher ups to see the value of am I just delusional?

For the record this small franchise partnered with eBay so it's doing really well, but they have implemented 0% of AI into their franchise software. The AI method doesn't discredit their software either, it just works outside of it.

You should be careful to make it clear that this is a new job not replacing yourself. You know the saying is you won't lose your job day I you lose your job to someone that knows how to use AI and I think that's potentially what you're going to do to your coworkers but if you're going to be the agent botherd or whatever you need to negotiate in advance this new job essentially replace yourself at your old job and expect a substantial salary increase with I would say more flexibility you know not just being in an office all day would be my first demand.

>>60543501
How can you know how to use AI when AI applies itself to problems without needing explanations? I often just let it work on my code base with the instruction "make it faster" or "make it simpler" or "test and debug". After a day, it has done magic beyond what anyone with 130+ IQ could do in a year, for less than $100 in computing cost.

>>60543501
No it won't be replacing me, it just makes the job faster and error free. It's easy to make mistakes because we have to put information in 1 tab at a time. With AI, it inputs the information fully and includes all information on the product. All of our items are random so it's impossible that a low income wagie like me would know everything about every product we have to list so people just say "item is good" but AI will fully describe the item. How do you pitch this to higher ups? PowerPoint presentation? Do I just tell them hey look at my AI method on discord? Idk.

>>60543554
I won't guess how it works in your company, smaller ones are often quite peculiar, depending on the mental illness of the owners.
> pitch to corporate
Usually, you must find someone who is in charge of purchasing such supplier services. This is not that easy, for my industries, they keep away from Linkedin to never be contacted by anyone.
If you somehow manage to get an appointment, they want to know whether it fits their corporate rules, and whether they can advance their own careers by purchasing it, aka the savings they can report to higher ups.
They get bullshit every day, so they will look for live demos, or a quick integration test into their environment, like two weeks or so, working with a few experts on their side.

>>60543580
My big advantage is that we are a small franchise so I have direct access to higher ups on discord. They might be mentally ill, you're right. But to be a tech company with no interest in AI is crazy. They are boomers running a tech business. My problem is that it's not software I'm selling but training service, using outside software to sharpen their in house software, maybe they won't like that because they are in the business of selling a franchise product.

My method will make their franchisees more money, meaning corporate gets higher franchise payments, it also means hiring less people because it's more efficient way to work. I made a nice PowerPoint presentation but I never pitched something to corporate before. Thanks I will take your thoughts into consideration.

>>60543644
So you would pitch it to the franchise owners that you could implement this for every franchisee, or for the franchise product itself so that every franchisee will increase revenue?
If that increases their profit, and if they are boomers and can't estimate the cost of doing it cheaply at their cousin's software company or in India, the chances that they'd bite aren't bad.

>>60543674
If they are boomers, I'd probably go for cost savings tables and that you implemented it successfully at your part of the system, making it the #1 store, if you can make that connection.

>>60543674
I want to pitch the service of training their employees how to use AI to make their jobs more efficient. I can go from franchise to franchise and show them or even do it over zoom if it's international. I know for fact this will increase revenue at each location I train the employees at by at least 10%. I will look into cost saving analysis.

>>60543754
Would there be an easy method to separate your effect in the revenue?
If so, barter for payment in % of the increase.

OP is replacing himself AND his coworkers with AI and wants to pitch that to his boss. Kek

>>60543834
That's how it works now. Economic competition leaves no choice. We will have judgement day, but the weapon will be ROI comparison, not ICBMs.

>>60543814
Yes I have stats available to me proving the percentage increase in sales and listings from comparative time periods. The challenge is figuring out how to pitch it to boomers so they see value in it.

>>60543834
Maybe, but if they create a position for me and my job becomes doing AI research and figuring out how to implement it into the franchise software... Then I definitely see a future in that. We are in the AI wars after all, there's no one size fits all yet. Lots of promises though. Other poster is right, AI implementation is inevitable but let's not get off topic.

>>60543483 (OP)
You can 100% make money on this but be very careful if there are any clauses in your contract that might fuck you. E.g. if you figured it out on company time using company resources they might be able to force you to do this for free or some bullshit.

>>60543483 (OP)
You don't.

You try to pitch it, and 10 other firms beat you to it for lower cost and higher service capability.

^

Literally every popup AI implementation business is your idea.
Mid-range businesses with any tech side are drowning in the ads right now.

You can try to carve a little change out, but you can't get this idea beyond your local area before it explodes beyond your ability to see viable returns long term from it.

Meaningful metaphor:
You are offering a taxi service.
There is an automated hover train that will be competing with you within weeks of your success.


>Good luck, OP!

>>60543903
You mean the franchise contract? I see what you mean. At the moment I'm just a low wage FT employee. Good advice thanks, I'll check the franchise manual

I literally pay jeets on Fiverr to do my coding and my boss thinks I'm a genius. I spend like $100 bucks every two weeks and goof off the rest of the time.

>>60543918
I agree with you when it comes to SEO or website services. But the way the franchise does business is unique, there's a specific way that they buy and sell with a particular software. What I'm doing is pitching training within the service as an employee that knows the workflow of the franchise.

It's like pitching a more efficient workflow to McDonalds. You can tell them how to make better tastier burgers but they don't care, they care about making their burger method more idiot proof so they can sell their franchise as a product to franchisees for guaranteed profit. They don't serve amazing burgers, they serve fast mediocre burgers that anyone can cook with their machines.

Basically I know how they make their machines product burgers faster at basically no extra cost. Thoughts?

>>60544059
based

>>60543918
meanwhile in reality all biz is completely retarded