The AI Business Playbook

Quick Start Beginners Guide.

Author

Matthew Puszko
August 16, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

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Welcome back to Your AI Business Playbook!

This week we cover:

  • 5 steps to getting started with AI in your business.

  • 2 tools that gives businesses an instant AI admin assistant.

  • The top mistake SMEs make when launching their first AI pilot.

  • Case Study.

  • Your monthly gift.

5 steps to getting started with AI in your business

  1. Review the attached AI Readiness Assessment: Understand your starting point.

  2. Map your pain points: Identify repetitive admin tasks, customer queries, or data-heavy areas. Start with where AI can relieve the workload directly.

  3. Start small & test tools: Try 1–2 low-code tools. Let your team explore and learn in real-time.

  4. Train & involve your team: Explain what AI does and doesn’t do, and get staff comfortable with AI tools from day one.

  5. Set simple KPIs & review: Track time-saving, response accuracy, or customer satisfaction. Use feedback to refine or expand AI usage.

2 tools to get you started: ChatGPT and Perplexity.

  • Get instant AI help with simple chat.


    Just type your questions in plain English, no coding or technical know-how needed and ChatGPT will help you brainstorm ideas, draft emails or answer customer queries in seconds. Versatile for brainstorming and content generation.

  • Affordable, secure and grows with you.


    Start small with pay-as-you-go pricing and add more seats when you need them. Enterprise-grade security (encryption, access controls) keeps your data safe as your team scales. Perplexity is an AI search engine that provides analysis and links to sources.

ROI Snapshot: Starting Smart with AI

  • Recent figures show that 35% of Australian SMEs have already adopted AI, and another 60% plan to by 2026.

  • The #1 blocker? Plenty of awareness but no idea where to start. That’s why structured guidance pays off.

Why it matters: A targeted specific approach about where to start leads to measurable outcomes that can be replicated, modified and scaled for profitability.

Biggest AI Pitfall Too Many Still Ignore

  • Businesses often treat their first AI pilot as a standalone experiment.

  • Too much focus on technical feasibility instead of everyday functions.

  • Pilots never move into production.

  • Wasted time and resources.

  • Loss of stakeholder confidence.

How to Avoid It:

  • Align on Business KPI’s: set clear, outcome-focused metrics (e.g. percentage cost reductions) tied to revenue or efficiency.

  • Plan for production up front: define your deployment roadmap, integration points and ongoing support requirements.

  • Engage cross-functional stakeholders: Involve IT, operations, finance and end-users early.

Case Study: Mortgage Brokerage Chat Bot Assistant 

The Challenge:

  • A mortgage broker was spending up to 10 hrs/week manually pre‑qualifying leads.

  • Led to delayed follow‑up and missing out on clients.

The Solution:

AI chat assistant added to the website:

  • Leads qualified instantly across multiple loan scenarios.

  • Customer FAQ’s answered.

  • Appointments scheduled.

  • Auto‑email transcripts sent to staff for fast hand‑offs.

The Results:

  • ✅ 5–10 hrs/week saved.

  • ✅ ROI reached within 3 months on time savings alone.

  • ✅ Faster response times led to more closed applications.

“Finally, a tool that does the heavy lifting so our experts can focus on closing deals.”

Your Monthly Gift

As part of our commitment to building your business receive 1 month of the Make.Com Pro plan with 10,000 operations for free. If you would like to learn how to use Make.com to automate your business, get in touch with us.

In the next edition:

Sales Lead Generation

Ready to put AI to work filling your pipeline? In the next edition we’ll show you how to:

  • Automate lead capture: Generate monthly leads that are already data enriched.

  • Access smarter outreach: AI-powered follow-ups that personalise emails and LinkedIn messages at scale.

  • Obtain data-driven growth: Lead scoring tools that highlight your best conversion opportunities.

Stay tuned - your next edition will be all about turning conversations into conversions.

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