AI Implementation in Business: Overcoming Adoption Challenges and Building AI-Ready Organizations with Courtney Lukitsch and Eugene Alexeev

In this episode, Eugene Alexeev speaks with Courtney Lukitsch, Founder of Gotham, about the practical realities of implementing AI in modern businesses and how organizations can transform to harness this technology effectively.

Courtney founded Gotham over 20 years ago in New York City, expanding into a global consultancy with offices in Miami and London, working with clients in 30 countries worldwide.

In this conversation:

• How a New York luxury manufacturing client built their own LLM to protect proprietary work while scaling their team's capabilities exponentially

• The critical importance of human discernment, fact-checking, and taste in an AI-driven world, with current AI tools showing 30-40% error rates

• Why businesses must restructure to become "AI-ready" by creating centralized information systems that aggregate data from all sources

• The fastest-moving AI developments happening right now, from sensory AI in furniture design to the obsolescence of traditional websites

• Practical starting points for AI adoption, including free resources and professional training platforms like Section AI and Google's entrepreneur courses

• The echo chamber risk when AI systems communicate without human oversight and the emerging need for verification systems on blockchain

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• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/courtneylukitsch

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