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How Golf Courses Turned AI Into a 25% Revenue Lift
The sport nobody expected to lead in AI adoption is now teaching SMBs how to price, maintain, and scale with machines.
 • Kamil Banc
What $60K-a-year schools learned about AI (so you don’t have to pay tuition)
Ivy League universities ran dozens of AI pilots. Most flopped. The wins share one pattern you can steal today.
 • Kamil Banc
Tax Agencies Are Building AI That Sees Everything You Own
Nine governments built AI systems that recovered billions. Then auditors found 74% of the models lack ethics reviews.
 • Kamil Banc
How Airstream Slashed Lead Costs 44% Without Touching Its Product
A 90-year-old brand proves marketing AI delivers faster ROI than product AI for SMBs.
 • Kamil Banc
Hallmark Spent 115 Years Selling Effort, Then AI Showed Up
Generative AI should have killed the greeting card. It didn't. Hallmark figured out something most tech companies still haven't.
 • Kamil Banc
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Why did Kroger give up on robots and switch to store-based AI?
The largest US supermarket chain abandoned a billion-dollar bet on warehouse automation, then found margin expansion where nobody was looking.
 • Kamil Banc
How did Instacart use AI to grow their business?
A practical breakdown of their strategy that any service business can copy.
 • Kamil Banc
How Nescafé cut product development from 3 months to 3 weeks
A 150-year-old coffee giant now moves faster than most startups. Here’s the playbook SMBs can actually steal.
 • Kamil Banc
JPMorgan Spent $18 Billion on AI. The Best ROI Came From Contract Review.
Not fraud detection. Not personalization. Boring document automation beat everything.
 • Kamil Banc
Sports stadiums spent billions testing AI so you don’t have to
The operational playbook from venues processing 100,000 people per event. Ready to learn from billion-dollar AI tests instead of running your own?
 • Kamil Banc
Rockstar’s $10 Billion AI Secret
The company behind Grand Theft Auto is building one of gaming’s most advanced AI pipelines while publicly dismissing AI as “derivative”
 • Kamil Banc
Hilton Deployed 41 AI Use Cases. Three Paid Back in Six Months.
How a hotel chain cut food waste 60%, doubled marketing ROI, and trained 400,000 staff without hiring consultants
 • Kamil Banc
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