The AI Operating Model for Franchise and Multi-Site Operators
One promotion, forty versions of the artwork across the network, and nobody you can hold accountable. Here is what an AI operating model looks like in a franchise business.
One promotion, forty versions of the artwork across the network, and nobody you can hold accountable. Here is what an AI operating model looks like in a franchise business.
Six subscriptions, no change to the business. Here is what separates real estate companies where AI runs in production from the ones still experimenting.
Most AI projects we see across the Gulf are quietly failing. Not loudly. There’s no crash and no post-mortem. The pilot just goes quiet, the enthusiasm fades, and a year later, the business is roughly where it started, only now with a subscription it isn’t really using. It’s almost never because the technology doesn’t work. … Read more
This is not a story about AI being bad for marketing. It is a story about what happens when powerful tools meet organisations that have not yet built the infrastructure to govern them.
The anxiety around AI and creative work tends to focus on the wrong question. The question most people ask is: will AI replace designers?