AI in Work
June 14, 2025

5 AI Strategy Myths That Are Wasting Your Budget

AI strategy fails when it stays in decks. Rekap skips the plans and moves real work. It listens to conversations, captures signals, and automates action without waiting for clean data or perfect vendors. No theory. Just motion, built by operators.

You don’t need a bigger AI strategy. You need a better one.

Every VP, Chief of Staff, or RevOps leader we talk to says some version of the same thing:

“We invested in AI, and nothing actually changed.”

It’s not just frustrating. It’s wasteful.

We’ve seen companies hire data scientists, install AI tools, and build massive presentations—yet no one can point to a single workflow that AI actually owns.

The truth? Most AI strategy efforts stall because they chase vision before execution. They skip the real work.

If you’re tired of plans that don’t move, decks that don’t do, or pilots that never end, this is for you.

These five myths are silently draining your budget, wasting your team’s time, and blocking the actual impact AI can deliver. Let’s break them—so you can finally move something real.

Myth 1: You need a big AI transformation plan

The idea of a sweeping AI transformation sounds exciting. It makes for good slides and earns executive nods. But most of the time, these plans don’t launch anything. They stall real work.

We’ve seen this movie before: teams scope out a 6-month phased rollout, get bogged down in vendor meetings and budget approvals, and then… nothing ships. No workflows get fixed. No time is saved. No progress is felt.

Execution hides behind planning. And planning keeps changing as the business evolves.

Instead, start small. Take one process your team hates—like prepping interview kits. With Rekap, you don’t need a playbook. We pull past conversations, generate a complete kit, and deliver it before anyone asks.

You don’t need transformation. You need traction.

Starting small means momentum builds faster. You see wins within days. You learn what works. And you scale only what shows real results.

Rekap helps kill performance theater by focusing on what actually moves. We don’t do strategy for the sake of optics. We build sharp, working systems that get shipped now.

Myth 2: You need more data before you can do anything

“Let’s clean up the data first” is how good teams get stuck for months. There’s always a field to update, a tag to fix, a dashboard to realign. And while that’s happening, work doesn’t improve.

Here’s the real issue: AI doesn’t need perfect data. It needs live context.

Your CRM may be full of gaps, but the actual signal lives in conversations, voice notes, feedback threads, and missed follow-ups. That’s where AI should live too.

Waiting for a pristine dataset is like refusing to fix a leak until you repaint the house.

Rekap listens to what’s already happening—live, in real time. If your recruiter shares a voice update, Rekap turns it into a structured scorecard. If your sales manager shares concerns in a meeting, Rekap captures the signal and logs risk—without waiting for the CRM to catch up.

Instead of trying to prep your data for AI, put AI where your data naturally lives: in the chaos.

Rekap makes your current mess usable. No cleanup needed. No wasted time. Just intelligent action from the signals already in motion.

Myth 3: It’s about choosing the right vendor

Many leaders think the problem is they haven’t picked the perfect AI platform. So they start researching, demoing, comparing feature checklists, and stall for months.

Meanwhile, work continues to break. Feedback is lost. Interviews are rescheduled. CRMs remain outdated.

The truth is, no tool solves your problem if the system underneath is broken. And most AI tools are built to sit on top of problems, not fix them.

Rekap flips the model. We don’t give you dashboards to admire—we act.

When your team speaks, Rekap listens. It turns feedback into summaries, meetings into next steps, and conversations into structured workflows. The problem gets addressed, not just recorded.

Example: Instead of evaluating six candidate experience platforms, Rekap auto-generates hiring briefs, pulls insights from prior feedback, and keeps hiring managers prepared. That’s real motion, not a better vendor pitch.

Rekap is built for glue people who want to fix things, not browse options. We’re not here to impress your procurement team. We’re here to move your actual work.

Myth 4: You should automate everything at once

Trying to automate everything in your org at once guarantees failure. It spreads focus thin, overloads the team, and creates confusion around what’s actually working.

The goal of AI strategy isn’t automation everywhere. It’s relief somewhere.

What’s the one thing dragging your team down every week? Start there. For many, it’s interviews. Scorecards are inconsistent. Feedback is scattered. Candidates get lost in the system.

That’s exactly where Rekap comes in. It listens to interviews, pulls key signals, auto-writes scorecards, and feeds them into your decision process—all without manual effort.

Now imagine the recruiter isn’t chasing. The hiring manager isn’t guessing. And the candidate actually feels like someone paid attention.

That one fix gives you clarity, credibility, and momentum. You didn’t solve everything. You solved something that mattered.

Rekap focuses automation where the pain is hottest. No generic rollouts. Just one sharp macro that handles what your team hates most—and proves what’s possible when AI works.

Myth 5: Only tech teams can lead this

This myth is the biggest blocker to real AI adoption. It keeps the most operationally intelligent people stuck on the sidelines, waiting for engineering to make a move.

But AI strategy isn’t about writing code. It’s about knowing where time is wasted and momentum is lost.

Ops leaders, Chiefs of Staff, Recruiters—they’re the glue. They know what keeps breaking. They just haven’t had a system to fix it. Until now.

With Rekap, anyone on your team can spot a broken process and automate the fix. No code. No backlog. Just macros that listen, reason, and move the work forward—immediately.

Imagine this: Your Head of People sees 1:1s are getting missed. With Rekap, they launch a macro that records every meeting, tags action items, and schedules follow-ups. One problem solved. Zero engineering involved.

Rekap gives glue people superpowers. No waiting. No ticket queues. Just execution owned by the people who understand the work best.

Stop Planning. Start Fixing. Book Your AI Strategy Session Now.

You don’t need another deck.

You need one workflow that works without you.

Rekap helps you stop theorizing and start executing. In less than 7 days, we’ll build and ship a working AI system for your team. No code. No waiting. Just outcomes.

👉 Book your AI Strategy Session now.

You’ll get:

✅ One high-friction workflow turned into an automation
✅ A live macro scoped to your use case
✅ A clear path to real impact, not ideas

Rekap doesn’t track work. We move it. Let’s move.

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