{
  "id": 3239213,
  "title": "Four mistakes founders are making with AI and the true cost of inertia",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/four-mistakes-founders-are-making-with-ai-and-the-true-cost-of-inertia",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-25T10:21:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "City AM",
    "slug": "city-am",
    "url": "https://www.cityam.com/four-mistakes-founders-are-making-with-ai-and-the-true-cost-of-inertia/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Many founders are making four critical mistakes when incorporating AI into their businesses. Firstly, they delay implementing AI, allowing competitors with a more AI-driven approach to overtake their market share. Secondly, they adopt AI without first diagnosing their business problems, leading to wasted resources and disengaged teams. Thirdly, businesses fail to recognize that AI can improve the quality and uniqueness of their offerings rather than merely saving time and money. Lastly, companies neglect to include their teams in the AI adoption process, causing employees to view AI as a threat to their jobs.",
  "summary": "Advice about AI adoption usually comes in two flavours: move fast, or proceed with caution. Take too long to deliberate how and when to integrate AI into your business, and your competitors will leave you for dust. But, rush to adopt AI trends without properly diagnosing the problems in your business, and you risk eroding [...]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}