Privacy and AI: How to Protect Wh...
Privacy and AI: How to Protect What You Have Built Before You Open the Door

The Readiness Report: Foundation First. AI Second. by Mike Donaldson

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You think you know your business data. Names, emails, purchase history, all accounted for. Then you actually go look, and the picture changes. Records live in a CRM. More sit in email threads nobody archived. PDFs sit in a shared folder nobody has opened in years, and phone numbers get duplicated across systems that never talk to each other.

This episode walks through why privacy is a readiness problem, not a legal one, and why it has to be settled before any AI project starts. Dr. Mike breaks down what dark data actually is, walks through a real client example where a security gap surfaced before AI ever entered the conversation, and lays out the steps for building a data inventory you can actually use to decide what AI is allowed to touch.

A ten-person business is just as attractive a target as a much larger one, a ... 

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AI for small businesssmall business AIAI readinessLean AIAI implementationAI strategysmall business operationsfoundation firstAI Efficiency for small businessartificial intelligence small business owners