GenAI Power Deck

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Adoption, adaptation, tools, tactics and more

David Arnoux

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GenAI Power Session

⚫️ White collar recession. Are we cooked?

Is also gonna happen here?

What happened here

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⚫️ Will we still need humans?

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"not for most things [...]making things

moving things, growing food"

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but it goes even further.

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“most knowledge work is automatable. not in 10 years. Now. doing research, customer support, tutoring, coaching, marketing”

Bill Gates

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⚫️ Bit About Me

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I run:

AI Adoption & Implementation �A Venture Studio

⚫️ Obvious slide #1 Farmers were ‘cooked’

Agricultural productivity over time

For millennia, farming employed the majority. In 1900, ~40% of U.S. workers were farmers… by 2000, under 2% produced more food than ever. More food less ppl.

note: Walking in fields planting beetroots sucks (trust me)

⚫️ Obvious slide #2 Factory workers =‘cooked’

U.S. manufacturing now produces near-record goods with far fewer workers than decades ago​. Early 1900s factories needed armies of workers; modern factories need only a lean crew.

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⚫️ Knowledge workers cooked too?

Intellectual productivity

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⚫️ This search will replace so many people

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Source: google trends

but this is really bad right?

Sure but it’s kinda inevitable…

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⚫️ Optimal Foraging Theory(OFT)

Source: Nicholas Hendley

• As animals we are hardwired to try to get as much as possible with as little effort as possible.
• We tend to maximize gains while minimizing effort, this is called optimal foraging theory (OFT)

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⚫️ We’re all animals

The marginal value theorem show animals leave food patches when diminishing returns make continued foraging less efficient than seeking new patches

Too much effort…

let’s innovate n’ get outta here

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⚫️ ps: we’re making less babies(less incentives)

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⚫️ Summary: what we did for muscle power…

It’s estimated that we’ve created a machine stack… that is roughly equivalent to 200x the sums of all physical muscle of the entirety of the human species. Roughly.

• Jean-Marc Jancovici

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We’re now doing it for muscle power

brain

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source = trust me bro?

no, not exactly

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⚫️ Towards a white collar recession?

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⚫️ Recent examples

• ibm: hiring freeze for 7,800 jobs supplanted by ai in the next five years. (link here)
• goldman sachs: digital transition projections suggesting up to 200,000 positions globally might be affected at global banks over 3-5 years due to ai and automation. (link here)
• morgan stanley: the bank is aligning with industry trends that anticipate workforce reductions due to AI integration, it’s cutting 2k jobs (link here)
• government’s ai Affair: Public sectors aren’t lagging. AI is now the go-to for data analysis, public inquiries, leading to a trimmed-down workforce(link here)
• “law firms lean on AI for paralegal work as consulting firms find that five 22-year-olds with ChatGPT can do the work of 20 recent grads." (link here)
• "Tech firms are turning over their software programming to a handful of superstars working with AI co-pilots."
• "The share of jobs posted on Indeed in software programming has declined by more than 50 percent since 2022." (link here)
• And even if employers aren’t directly substituting AI for human workers, spending on AI infrastructure is crowding out spending on new hires.

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⚫️ Still wanna teach your kids to code?

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⚫️ Rev/Employee of the Future

(source here)

Just give this a couple years

https://leanaileaderboard.com/

⚫️ Rev/Employee of the Future

“In my little groupchat with my tech CEO friends there’s this betting pool for the first year that there is a one-person billion dollar company,”

Sam Altman, CEO OpenAI

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⚫️ Rev/Employee of the Future

Growth in the number of UK private sector businesses by size band, 2000 to 2022 (UK ONS, 2022)

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Source here:

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⚫️ It sucks being a grad student right now

early-career = long job hunts, lower first salaries

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⚫️ Shopify Manifesto

5 Key Takeaways:

1. AI usage is now a baseline expectation = Not for tech teams. For EVERYONE.
2. Teams must justify why AI can't handle a task = Not the other way around.
3. Performance reviews will include AI proficiency = This isn't optional anymore.
4. AI must be part of the prototype phase = Start with AI, then add human elements.
5. Learning is self-directed, but sharing is mandatory = This is a team evolution, not a solo journey.

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• ⁠extra hiring only if team can prove it can't be automated
• ⁠job candidates need to show smart ai use
• ⁠performance reviews will score smart ai use too
• ⁠every function must redesign its workflow around automation
• the company already swapped one slow manual pipeline for a model and saw the clock speed up

Is “leaked memo” the new CEO PR stunt playbook :D

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⚫️ Duolingo Memo

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• AI is explicitly coming for everyone's job—no matter your role, even the CEO's position isn't safe.
• "Easy tasks" no longer exist; everything gets harder—only exceptional talent survives.
• To stay relevant, urgently master AI solutions, prompt engineering, and productivity boosts.
• Companies won't hire more people until teams maximize efficiency with AI; adapt or face rapid career obsolescence.

Who’s next?

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⚫️ Fiverr chiming in

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• Use AI to eliminate repetitive tasks, speed up work, and focus on strategic priorities.
• Automate workflows and reinvest the savings into more valuable, impactful activities.
• Continuously experiment internally to discover the best ways AI can be leveraged.
• Upskill all employees in AI, maintaining strong governance to ensure responsible use.

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⚫️ Box Too

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⚫️ Me Too!

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⚫️ But!

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Like always, truth is in the middle somewhere

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Fear

Hype/Excitement

NFX

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Asia’s all-in

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https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/the-ipsos-ai-monitor-2024-report-pdf/269624062#18

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“You won’t be replaced by AI but by someone using AI”

�I hate this quote, it makes no sense. It’s like saying “horse carriage drivers won’t be replaced by car drivers…” They were replaced. The tool changes the game. Full stop.

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⚫️ Should we all take up goose farming?

Doesn’t sound that bad actually

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Survival guide

(for You personally).

We’ll look at your org a bit later…

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⚫️ How to survive and thrive?

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Same old recommendations we’ve been seeing for years

But still hold true

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⚫️ I recommend this

good ‘taste’

(“eval”)

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voracious

technical curiosity

(and patience)

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area of expertise

(industry ‘secrets’)

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audience or personal brand

(even internal)

You’re convinced you have the other 3..

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so start focusing on this one right now!!

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ai

ai

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… did I mention ai?

a.i.

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⚫️ I recommend this

good ‘taste’

(“eval”)

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voracious

technical curiosity

(and patience)

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area of expertise

(industry ‘secrets’)

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audience or personal brand

(even internal)

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⚫️ Jobs ≠ Opportunities

Yes AI destroys jobs, but it creates opportunities. We’ll see job/opportunity creation by AI grow faster than destruction

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The fastest way to help somebody get a job…hey go download the ai tools and start using them, tinker.

Naval Ravikant

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⚫️ Here’s your suggested study guide

Week 1: Prompt Engineering and Prompt Patterns

Week 2/4: Technical Foundations: LLMs, APIs, and Open-Source Models

Week 2/4: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Chatbots, and QA Systems

Weeks 4-6: Automation and No-Code/Low-Code AI Workflows

Week 4-6: Compliance, Governance, and Ethics in AI

Week 6-8: Marketing, Sales, and Customer Service Use Cases

Week 6-8: AI Agents and Multi-Tool Chains

Week 8+: Adoption and Organizational Challenges

Week 8+: Building AI Teams and Fostering an AI Culture

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🔥 The really good stuff

⚫️ Develop an intuitive understanding

show me the em-dash key on your keyboard… it’s obvious this went through an LLM…

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⚫️ Develop an intuitive understanding

Terms to avoid

(negative-words) for LLMs

It's important to note

Delve into

Tapestry

Safeguard

Resonates

Bustling

In summary or In conclusion

Remember that...

Take a dive into

Navigating i.e. Navigating the landscape, Navigating the complexities of

Landscape i.e. The landscape of...

Testament i.e. a testament to...

In the world of

Realm

Embark

virtuoso, symphony

Colons : (colons everywhere!)

Bonus = the weird double-hyphen thingy> —

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landscape

tapestry

bustling

debunk

embark

game-changer

harness

landscape

strides

supercharge

trailblazing

unleash

unlock

yield

delve

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unlock the potential of

navigating i.e. "Navigating the landscape" "Navigating the complexities of"

pave the way

harness the power of

embark on a journey

push the boundaries of

a gateway to

it is worth noting

enter {thing}

fast-paced world

making waves

rapidly evolving

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👋 by David Arnoux

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These are a dead giveaway

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⚫️ Prompting isn’t just typing

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Choose your prompting framework��CRISPE: Capacity, Role, Insight, Statement, Personality, Experiment

CREATE: Character, Request, Example, Adjustments, Type, Extras

CLEAR: Context, Limitations, Examples, Adjustments, Role

ROAST: Role, Objective, Audience, Style, Task

PRECISE: Persona, Request, Examples, Constraints, Inputs, Structure, Enhancements

IDEAL: Instruction, Details, Examples, Adjustments, Limits

PROMPT: Persona, Role, Objective, Method, Parameters, Tone

TREAT: Task, Role, Examples, Adjustments, Tone

WRITE: Who, Role, Instruction, Tone, Examples

SUCCES: Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional, Story-based

SCARE: Scenario, Context, Action, Role, Expectation

FRAME: Focus, Role, Action, Method, Expectation

PASTA: Purpose, Audience, Style, Tone, Action

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Best cheat sheet out there

⚫️ Agentic Org Chart

Understanding these agentic topologies will be way more important than traditional organisational design

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⚫️ Agentic Org Chart

by www.conducting.ai/

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⚫️ Really focus on getting good

at this

asap.

easier

harder

goldilocks

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Demos!

⚫️ Demo

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⚫️ I could keep going

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⚫️ But it’s so exhausting to keep up 😮‍💨

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⚫️ But it’s so exhausting to keep up

Yeah well that’s just the reality we live in. �Deep work + Focus a key competitive advantage yes

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but…

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So is AI adhd (sorry)

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Medieval farmers had it easy

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⚫️ Tool shifts in orgs

ai-first replacements

ai-first replacement

‘old school’

sales & marketing

customer support & success

engineering & product

finance, hr & legal

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Survival guide

(for your business)

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⚫️ Towards

Autonomous

Businesses?

Most are here

Some getting here

Give this a year

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⚫️ Incumbents have massive competitive edges

This time round Incumbents/Corporates/SMEs are sitting on an even more important competitive advantages

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⚫️ Org Charts of the Future

How I run current projects

Full credits to Adriana Pereira

Tip: Skip the quick wins

Give us your data, show us your SOPs, let’s start automating the mundane.

(And the not-so-mundane)

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⚫️ Just another change management program?

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⚫️ Not exactly…

How I run current projects

⚫️ 2 tracks = People AND Tooling

Tinker

Commit

Scale

How I run current projects

⚫️ People

Tinker

Commit

Scale

More formalized & adapted version of what I shared previously

⚫️ People

Tinker

Commit

Scale

⚫️ People

Tinker

Commit

Scale

⚫️ Use Case 1

Tech Industry

(click here)

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⚫️ Use Case 2

Mobility Industry

(click here)

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⚫️ Use Case 3

Finance Industry

(click here)

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⚫️ Use Case 4

FMCG

(click here)

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⚫️ Use Cases

Lots of case studies

(click here)

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⚫️ Go here first

80% of the time you’ll find the high impact / high ease in marketing and sales or product

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⚫️ Go here first

How I run current projects

Full credits to Pascal Malengrez

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“Management Consulting Firms Are Monetizing Fear at Scale. The average CAGR for the top 5 management consulting firms in Generative AI year over year for 2021-2025 = 105.9%

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In fact they are the ONLY ones making money.

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Accenture grew its GenAI revenue from $100M in 2021 to over $2B in 2024. It booked $1.2B more in just Q1 of 2025.1

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BCG, Deloitte, McKinsey, and PwC are following suit, doubling revenue year over year, spinning up GenAI advisory units, and securing massive enterprise transformation deals.2345

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Every major firm now has a GenAI services practice.

All of them are billing millions.”

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⚫️ Careful! 🚩

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Final Words & Next Steps

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