Mike McKearin

CEO at WE•DO | Growth Expert | Adventurer | Optimist

[Mike McKearin @mckearin]

11.5 employee hours a week. Median US small business, median AI spend $2,200/yr. Typical firm runs five tools and cannot say which one produced the hours. If you can't name what a tool returned last month, that's not a budget. It's a subscription list.

[Mike McKearin @mckearin]

7 in 10 small businesses use AI regularly. ~1 in 10 pay for it. And 8 in 10 of those who paid in 2024 were still paying in 2025 (Intuit QuickBooks, 34k+ businesses).

Nobody renews what doesn't work. If AI isn't on your budget line, it isn't in your workflow.

[Mike McKearin @mckearin]

Write the workflow once; ClickUp Brain runs it Monday.

Our Super Agent is 3 fields:
• Trigger: Mon 8:00 AM
• Skill: our formats, written one time
• Output: draft tasks in my review column

This post is one of its drafts.

#ClickUp #AIAgents #SmallBusiness #Automation

[Mike McKearin @mckearin]

78% of small business owners don't trust AI with basic tasks. 48% already save 4+ hrs a week with it. Both true — they're using tools they can't verify. Trust isn't a model property. It's a trigger, an owner, a visible output, a kill switch. Build the harness.

[Mike McKearin @mckearin]

Hand Claude Cowork one folder, not your whole computer.
1. Connect one folder
2. Name the finished thing
3. Read the plan before you approve it
4. Save what worked as a routine

It only reads the folders you connect. Start boring.

[Mike McKearin @mckearin]

1,200 app switches a day. ~4 hrs/week just reorienting. (HBR, 137 workers)

Most teams answer that with another tab.

Study of 103M app events: the stretch right after AI use was narrower and more predictable. AI can structure the day — if it lives where the work does.

[Mike McKearin @mckearin]

95% of AI pilots showed no measurable P&L impact. That's not "AI doesn't work" — it means nobody instrumented the work. (MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide)

Our reporting agent gave back 260 hrs/yr. We know because we counted the before.

[Mike McKearin @mckearin]

4 agents. 4 jobs. Nobody supervising them.

The rule: if it doesn't produce signal, it doesn't ship.

Pick one job you do by hand every week. That's your first handoff.

#AIEnablement #AIAgents #SmallBusiness #Automation #ClickUp

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