Why companies fail at AI

We run performance review cycles at Remote in 48 hours using AI. What used to take eight weeks, running the cycle for almost 2,000 people, now takes two days. People ask how we prepared for that. Honest answer: We didn’t prepare for AI at all. We had monthly check-ins, consistent documentation, and calibration sessions. We did this because that’s just what running a company well looks like, not because we were building toward some AI future. When the technology arrived, we were able to compress…