Your team is already using AI. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, whatever they found. No one asked for permission and no one wrote any rules. It just started happening, and no one told them what not to type into the chat window.

Dr. Mike treats AI like a new piece of equipment on your information floor. You'll hear what happened when a signed contract went into AI completely unedited, what it should have looked like instead, and a four-step fix that starts with a 15-minute conversation.

The fix is not silence and it is not a ban. It is a floor rule.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• You cannot manage something you have not acknowledged. The decision to use AI was already made, without a meeting and without a policy.
• AI is a new piece of equipment on your information floor. In manufacturing, you would never put a new machine in place without knowing exactly what it touches.
• An owner loaded a signed contract into AI just to find the shalls and shall nots. Client names, payment terms, and contract value all went in with it. Strip those out first and AI still finds the clauses in seconds.
• Two extremes fail. Silence assumes the team knows better. An outright ban pushes AI use underground.
• Treat it like any shop floor rule: a short, plain list of what goes into AI and what stays out, explained once, posted visibly, and repeated for every new hire.
• Solo owners are not exempt. You are the team, so ask yourself the same questions before you paste anything in.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

AI Readiness Assessment, a free 10-question snapshot of where your business stands on AI readiness: https://unjammer.com/assessment

RELATED EPISODES AND ARTICLES

AI Policy for Small Business: Why the One-Page Rule Beats a Ban (article), the written version of this episode: https://unjammer.com/articles/ai-policy-for-small-business

How to Prepare Your Employees for AI Before You Roll Out a Single Tool (article), getting the team ready before launch: https://unjammer.com/articles/prepare-your-employees-for-ai

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