DESIGN QUESTION / DZ-02.03NOTELIVEREV.

Real-World AI Use Cases

What does useful AI adoption look like in everyday work?

Nailed It! follows people through AI workflows they have already made useful—not hypothetical demos. Each interview begins with a real problem, shows what changed, and isolates what another person could borrow. The measure is useful work, not more AI.

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Nailed It! — real-world AI use cases with Zara Zhang and Daria Zhao
Nailed It! — real-world AI use cases with Zara Zhang and Daria Zhao
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Figures as of 2024-05.

Start with the use case

The early story of AI at work was told in demos. A blank box became a finished presentation; a prompt became a campaign. The distance between the two was where the actual work lived.

Nailed It! began with a simpler question: what are real people doing now that makes work or life easier? The answers come from sales, growth, marketing, writing, and the untidy middle of a working day.

Keep the workflow visible

Useful adoption is rarely total automation. It is usually a person changing one part of the work—research, preparation, first drafts, or follow-up—and keeping judgment where it matters. The interviews ask what problem came first, what changed, and where judgment still matters. The standard is a useful result, not more AI.

Record the transition

The videos are practical by design. Together, they record the moment a new capability moves from spectacle into ordinary work, including the awkward steps a polished demo leaves out.

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YouTube channel - the primary home for the ongoing video series.

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