THE CAREER JUNCTION — SMALL BUSINESS AI BLUEPRINT STARTER ========================================================== 1. FIND THE WORK What repetitive work is happening? ____________________________________________________ 2. FIND THE MONEY LEAK What is this costing in time, capacity, revenue, delays, errors, or opportunity? ____________________________________________________ 3. SCORE THE OPPORTUNITY Is this important enough, frequent enough, and safe enough to improve? ____________________________________________________ 4. MAP THE WORKFLOW What happens now, step by step? What should AI handle? What should automation handle? What should people handle? ____________________________________________________ 5. DEFINE THE AI ROLE Role: Objective: Approved knowledge: Tools: Permissions: Boundaries: Human-review triggers: Expected output: 6. BUILD THE SMALLEST USEFUL VERSION What is the simplest version that would create value? ____________________________________________________ 7. TEST What realistic scenarios will you test? What could go wrong? What information must be protected? ____________________________________________________ 8. MEASURE How will you know this actually improved the process? ____________________________________________________ 9. IMPROVE What should change after testing? ____________________________________________________ START SMALL. TEST IT. PROTECT IT. MEASURE IT. IMPROVE IT. The Career Junction