Strategy, on this site, is how you talk about AI at work without lying. It is not a Center of Excellence. It is not a slide that says you will save a third of the department.
Aside. The robot does not get your badge. Your manager still reads the email with your name on it.
A log that does not embarrass you later
For one week, three columns:
- Task
- What the model drafted
- What you verified or rewrote
Optional fourth: minutes to edit. Optional is honest. “40 hours saved” is a genre of fiction.
Metrics that can survive a question
- The weekly update went out Thursday instead of Friday, and you still caught the wrong date
- First-line tickets you draft, you still send, lead did not bounce them
- You stopped pasting customer emails into a consumer tool
Not metrics: employee NPS of a chatbot, “innovation velocity,” a McKinsey number you saw in a carousel.
The conversation with your manager
I used [approved tool] on [task].
Here is a before/after of one email (redacted).
Here is what I still check.
I want to do the same on [next task]. I will not auto-send.
That is a roadmap. It fits on a page. It keeps you employed because you look like someone who can adopt a tool without setting the building on fire.
You are done when
You have one week of a log and one paragraph you could paste to your manager.