Executives keep asking "How do we use AI to make better decisions?"

The honest answer: clean your data first. Deduplicate your contacts. Reconcile the three spreadsheets tracking the same metrics with different definitions.

Nobody wants to hear that. So they build dashboards on top of garbage and blame the model when outputs are incoherent.

The intelligence was never the bottleneck.

https://www.paulwelty.com/the-loop-nobody-bothers-to-close/

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The loop nobody bothers to close

Most systems observe. Almost none learn. The difference is a feedback loop — and the boring cleanup work that makes it possible.

Paul Welty, PhD