The Assembly Problem

Short summary

A project manager built a sophisticated AI workflow using three pages of prompts, but discovered the real bottleneck isn't intelligence—it's weekly data assembly: exporting plans, risk registers, and reports, pasting them into a chat window, then rebuilding everything next week. The author argues the fix is embedding AI into work management tools where data already lives as structured tables, so formulas read data directly instead of reconstructing it from prose.

• •The bottleneck in AI workflows is data assembly (export/paste/rebuild), not AI capability
• •Embedding AI into structured data systems eliminates the weekly context-gathering ritual
• •Wisegrid treats AI like spreadsheet formulas: cells that operate on structured data directly

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