Productive Cuts Through the AI Hype to Focus on Productivity

The AI arms race in software is out of control.

Every platform is cramming artificial intelligence into features that worked fine without it, then acting like they've revolutionized your workflow.

Chatbots that answer questions your help docs already covered.

Writing assistants that generate mediocre content you'll spend twenty minutes editing.

"Smart" features that require three tutorials and a PhD to understand.

Meanwhile, the actual problems killing your productivity remain unsolved: data scattered across tools, hours wasted on manual entry, reports that take longer to build than to read, and administrative busywork that keeps your team from doing actual work.

Here's the truth most software companies won't tell you: you probably don't need AI for most of these tasks. What you