How AI Can Give You Back 80% of Your Time with Greg Boone

Time is one of the most valuable assets in a service-based business. Yet many owners and teams spend most of their week searching for information, copying data, formatting documents.

In this episode, Greg Boone, CEO at Walk West, explains how artificial intelligence, AI tools, automation, and agent workflows can give business owners back nearly 80% of their time. You learn how AI transforms marketing, consulting, operations, and knowledge work by reducing manual work, improving research, accelerating analysis, and helping teams move faster with better insights. The conversation focuses on AI adoption, AI strategy, productivity, marketing technology, data analysis, AI agents, and practical ways to integrate AI into everyday business workflows.

Key takeaways:

• AI can eliminate massive time waste. Explains how knowledge workers spend 50–60% of their week searching for information.
• You can reclaim up to 80% of administrative work. AI can complete weeks of work in minutes by automating research and analysis.
• AI works best as a thinking partner. Using AI to instruct, analyze data, generate ideas, and support decision making.
• AI reveals insights hidden in your data. Businesses can analyze meeting transcripts, reports, and unstructured data.
• Training matters for AI adoption. Without guidance, employees may misuse tools or rely on basic features, leaving most of AI’s real value unused.

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Quotes

-Greg Boone: "We get hyper-focused on the process of how we do things. AI doesn’t care about your process—it only cares about the outcome.”

-Jody Grunden: "Most firms struggle with growth because they rely on habits that worked when the company was smaller."

Greg Boone is the CEO of Walk West and a technology leader known for building high-performing teams that drive digital transformation. With decades of experience across leadership roles from director to CEO and advisor, Greg champions a people-first approach to business and innovation. His philosophy is simple: build great people first, and they will build a great company. Greg has led teams that served major brands including Charter, Panera Bread, Nascar, and Le Creuset while maintaining exceptional client loyalty. Today, he focuses on helping organizations leverage technology and AI to work smarter, unlock productivity, and give leaders back valuable time.

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