Supercharge Your Business with EOS and AI
What if your business could run faster, smarter, and with less stress, by using AI as a strategic partner, not just another tool?
Most leaders I meet are either dabbling in AI or wondering if it’s even worth the time to try. But here’s the hard truth: AI isn’t just another shiny object. Used right, it can multiply your leadership, compress your time-to-impact, and make your EOS-run business smoother than ever.
But this doesn’t happen with random tools and prompts. It happens when you build an AI Strategy and AI-Powered Leadership Team that’s truly aligned with your vision, your roles, and your EOS rhythms. That’s the portal of possibility I’m going to point you towards today.
Let’s dive in and unpack the five ways to turn AI from a generic assistant into your business’s most trusted thinking partner.
1. Start with a clear AI strategy that aligns with your vision.
AI works best when it has clarity and context. So before you dive into tools or hire consultants, step back and ask: What does success actually look like for my business this year? Which EOS component: Vision, People, Data, Issues, Process, or Traction, would benefit most from leverage, speed, or a fresh set of “synthetic” eyes?
Forget the hype about AI doing everything for everyone. Narrow your focus to where AI could move the needle for your unique business. Maybe it’s surfacing insights from your Scorecard data, or simulating strategic conversations for your quarterly offsite session. The magic happens when AI is pointed at a specific goal, inside a well-defined EOS framework.
I'm looking, I'm listening and I'm asking:
What’s your AI strategy, right now?
If you built your business around a core of AI, what would change?
If #2 feels overwhelming, let's start with #1. Every step counts.
2. Build custom AI “thinking partners” that know your playbook.
Imagine AI advisors who actually understand your business: your V/TO, your numbers, even your voice. Not just a chatbot that spits out generic advice, but a synthetic partner that knows your mission, challenges your assumptions, and pushes you toward your highest goals.
How? Create custom-trained models or “GPTs” for each leadership function:
A Strategic Clarity GPT steeped in your Vision/Traction Organizer.
A CMO GPT immersed your brand identity.
A CFO GPT that at the center of your 8 Cash Flow Drivers.
A Customer Avatar GPT who pressure-tests your next offer from your ideal client’s perspective.
When you do this, you stop relying on one-off AI prompts. You create a persistent advisory council: a group of synthetic leaders who enhance your EOS tools, challenge your blind spots, and help you make faster, more consistent, higher-quality decisions.
Best of all? You scale decision-making leverage without adding to payroll.
3. Make “infinite time” your secret competitive weapon.
Here’s the headline from NVIDIA’s CEO, Jensen Huang: “We couldn’t have built our next-generation chip without AI. It let us explore thousands of designs in parallel—because AI has infinite time.”
Check out the video here: No Priors Ep. 89 | With NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
This idea is rocket fuel for small business owners. Unlike humans, AI never gets tired, bored, or stuck. It can test, simulate, and optimize dozens of ideas at once, so you see new possibilities that were invisible before.
For you, that could mean:
Simulating 30 versions of your new pricing model in a day.
Drafting, critiquing, and refining 10 strategic plans before breakfast.
Modeling the downstream impact of hiring, firing, or launching a new product, without guessing or waiting for next quarter’s numbers.
AI breaks the old trade-off of speed vs. quality. With the right setup, you get both, and you can use your human imagination with AI's prodigious pattern recognition to create new portals of possibility, not just better execution.
4. Anchor every AI investment to your unique strengths, don’t just chase the tech.
The big mistake? Thinking AI is a shortcut to a moat. Harvard Business Review nails it: GenAI doesn’t invent your advantage, it amplifies what you already do well.
If your strength is a beloved brand, niche data, or process nobody else has—AI will sharpen it into a true edge. If you’re just average, AI won’t save you from mediocrity. That’s why your AI playbook should start with a forensic look at your real differentiators, all captured in your six key components we strengthen with EOS. What do you do better than any competitor? Where is your unique data, your hardest-won process, your irreplaceable customer relationship?
Once you know that, map every AI investment directly to those leverage points. Don’t buy tools just to “keep up”, but aim them like lasers at the things that really drive your P&L. In a recent “SMB AI Adoption” study, 91% of small companies using AI reported higher revenues, and many doubled their sales in months. Why? Because they focused AI on what already worked, not on what everyone else was doing.
5. Use EOS as the “operating system” for your AI team for maximum clarity and control.
Here’s the final multiplier: EOS was built for clarity, and AI thrives on clarity.
When you use EOS to organize your AI efforts, you don’t just plug tools into random problems. You design a structure where every AI partner is mapped to a core business strength: Vision, People, Data, Issues, Process, or Traction.
The key insight? AI performs at its best when the structure is clean and the vision is crisp. EOS gives you that structure. You have a tool to make sure your AI team aligns with your V/TO, your accountability chart, your quarterly rocks, your annual goals and your three year picture. You get more leverage, less noise, and a lot less chaos.
Small teams can suddenly scale big ideas. Visionaries stay in their Genius Zone with more traction, not more stress.
Here’s what’s coming next:
Want help getting going with your AI Strategy and AI-Powered Leadership Team? Here’s what’s coming next:
I’m developing a Navigator Lab offering: “Architect Your AI Team.”
You’ll get set up for:
A working AI advisory council, trained to your playbook
Prompts and processes for strategic thinking and planning
Tools to create a custom-trained multiplier of your leadership voice
You get more leverage, not more chaos. More clarity, not more complexity. It’s not about replacing people. It’s about reclaiming your clarity and your time.
Let me know if you want early access to these tools. Send me an email!
Example:
Clients often ask me how to best prepare for their Quarterly State of the Company Address. Here's a prompt you can cut and paste to help in that preparation:
I need to prepare for our upcoming Quarterly State of the Company address. Please interview me by asking one question at a time to help me clarify what key messages, wins, and challenges I want to communicate to our employees, and how to make the presentation as engaging and inspiring as possible. Once we have an outline, please help me craft the communication I’ll send out to set expectations and build excitement for the address.
Final Thought
EOS gives you structure.
AI gives you scale.
Your clarity gives both power.
Your strategy is the map for your next tactical move.
Let’s build AI strategies and enabled teams that mirror not just our business, but reinforce our identity as leaders.
Your compass is set.
Let’s walk the way, together.