Google Listed 1,001 Ways Businesses Are Using AI. Here Is How to Find Your Starting Point.

Most business owners can't answer this: what should I actually automate first?

Google published a report with over a thousand real AI use cases from companies already doing this. It covers retail, professional services, finance, and healthcare. Real companies, real outcomes, written up and indexed.

The problem is it runs to around 50 pages. Most of it won't apply to your business. And reading through all of it to find the five things that matter is the kind of task that gets added to next week's list and never opened.

There's a faster path.

Copy the link to the Google report. Open Claude. Tell it: "I run a [type of business] in [your location]. Read this report and find the five use cases most relevant to what I do. Explain what each one would look like in my business."

A minute later, you have a shortlist built for your situation. Every case pulled from the original research, translated into plain English, and filtered to what's actually relevant.

I've been pointing clients at this combination for a few months. The same businesses that spent weeks worrying about where to start picked three things off that list and had them running within a fortnight.

The research isn't missing. Over a thousand companies already did the hard work. The link to the report is in my bio.