I sat at the dinner table one night in January with my wife and kids, laptop open and still feverishly working because of a project not yet completed. 

My daughter asked why I was still working during dinner and “after hours.” I shared that I was trying to get something done so [that project] would stop annoying me, adding “I’d do an awful lot to have just five more hours in my week.”

She looked back at me with all the innocence and hope that an 8-year-old would, and said, “Daddy, is there anything that I can do for you that could give you those five hours so you can spend more time with us?”

That hit “right in the feels” as the cool kids say these days.

And this brings me to the most important letter combination of the year, and how it can help all of us as end users in our various roles: A.I. Yep, Artificial Intelligence.

A.I. might be the single greatest technological breakthrough since the internet. 

Why? Because it has boosted both knowledge and productivity, accelerating their delivery at a speed almost as fast as a lightning strike.

Here are two of my favorite examples in my niche of the industry in which A.I. has helped the end user accomplish more, at a faster pace, and as a result, sleep better. 

The first occurred at an Ultimate Boot Camp in 2024. At the time, we only discussed A.I. as something “to get ready for,” not even training on it yet. I spoke on its potential for ten minutes, then moved on. 

After the segment, a rep from our host asked, “I’m interested in the ‘GPT’ thing you were talking about. Can you give me an example?” 

We fired up Chat GPT, and I asked him a simple question:

“What’s the most annoying thing in your day that you’d realistically like to automate?”

He responded, “I write update emails weekly on our lead times. It’s pretty easy to see those in the system, put them together and such, but I always like to give extra detail so it’s not just numbers and dates. Now it’s become an added expectation. It takes me at least five hours a week to come up with new content for this, and I feel like I’m wasting that time, even though I know it’s important.”

I asked, “Do you feel like you’re saying the same thing over and over?”

“Definitely, I’m out of new ideas.”

We took his previous three weeks of content, loaded it into ChatGPT, and asked it to come up with ten different ways to replicate those messages in a fresh way. 

It gave us THIRTY. Ten for each example. He saw the nuances and the instant content generation, and the clear potential it had for him to still personalize and edit, but not stare at a blank page with writer’s block. What he did next left a lasting impact on me. 

He got up and hugged me. Full on bear hug like I was a brother coming back from deployment. “You just saved me at least five hours per week! THANK YOU!” 

Yes, I later stole his line in my conversation with my daughter.

The second example is from a friend of mine, who trains, consults, and creates content. She was tasked with developing 90 multiple-choice questions for an online course. She had blocked off an entire week for the project, with three days set aside just to create incorrect answers.

I hopped on a virtual call with her, showed her an A.I. tool, and demonstrated how to generate quizzes from her existing content. In less than an hour, she had finished the necessary edits. After another, they were loaded online and live. What would have taken her at least forty hours was done in just two.

When people talk about A.I. in dealerships, many go right to either the “Wild Wild West” nervousness, “snake oil” thoughts in a similar sentiment, or they use the “it’s too complicated/I can’t trust it/I can do that myself” fallback excuses. For some tools, that’s very true. 

However, there are dozens of tools out there today that you can use to better your experience of doing your job, and doing so with speed. Your competition is already using A.I., every single day. So is the next generation. Maybe not well, yet, but that’s coming. 

So I urge you, as an “end user” yourself, to ask a similar question my daughter asked me: “Is there anything out there that could give you those five hours so you can spend more time doing something else?”

Then ask the even better question, “What could those five hours give back to you?”

I’ve found my answers, and as you might imagine, they’ve made a world of difference to everyone at my dinner table. 

We can help you find your answers, too. Reach out to me, or explore all of our training options at OneNexusDealerTraining.com.