{"id":11323,"date":"2025-09-04T08:48:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/?p=11323"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:48:34","slug":"enterprise-ai-5-baby-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/enterprise-ai-5-baby-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise AI: 5 Baby Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your company is in the market for an enterprise AI solution. But it feels a little overwhelming. Where does AI want our data to be? How does it reach it? How do employees know how to use it? Where do we start?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this video, I cover 5 simple steps for your company to incorporate enterprise AI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want my recommendations on the best Enterprise AI Solution to quote your company? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"mailto:askmike@aerocominc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ask-Mike.png\" rel='magnific' alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10739\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Enterprise AI: 5 Baby Steps\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/__O7dRG4buc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2>About Me<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mike-Smith-square-head-shot-2022-06-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10741\" width=\"70\" height=\"65\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike Smith has been helping companies select the best telecom, WAN, security, and cloud services since 1999. He founded AeroCom in 2003, and has been the recipient of numerous business telecommunications industry awards, including being recognized as one of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/mydigitalpublication.com\/publication\/index.php?i=68145&amp;m=&amp;l=&amp;p=53&amp;pre=&amp;ver=swf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">top 40<\/a>&nbsp;business people in tech-heavy Orange County, CA. Follow Mike&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/Aerocominc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mikesmithaerocom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeSmithsBrain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reddit<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/community.spiceworks.com\/people\/mike-aerocominccom?source=navbar-subnav\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SpiceWorks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Transcript<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You work for a medium to large-sized company, maybe 50 or 100 employees or more. And your company is in the market for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/enterprise-ai-multi-model-access\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">enterprise AI solution<\/a>. You&#8217;ve seen a lot about AI. You think it&#8217;s probably time to start looking into it so you don&#8217;t miss the boat, but it&#8217;s kind of confusing. Where do you start? So where does your data reside? How do you protect all that data so that you don&#8217;t have breaches of security information? Your PII gets out there on the internet. Next thing you know, AI knows all about your company and all your employees. How do you deploy it? Where do you start? How do you help employees start using it? Well, in this video, I want to give you five baby steps to getting started with enterprise AI. My name is Mike Smith. I&#8217;m the president of Come. Let&#8217;s put our heads together on this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>My Recommendation<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>First, however, if you&#8217;d like my book recommendations on the best enterprise AI solutions that your medium to large-sized company should be quoting, reach out, send me an <a href=\"mailto:AskMike@AeroComInc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email<\/a>\u00a0or give me a call (714.593.0011). Send me an email. Give me a call. Don&#8217;t try to figure this out on Google. It&#8217;s way too hard. There are too many vendors out there. You know, AI is huge, so a lot of vendors are throwing their hats in the market, and you want to know which ones you should quote. Should you go with ChatGPT or maybe LLaMA? What should you do? Well, reach out and contact me. Join the thousands of other IT professionals who have used me to make much better decisions in a fraction of the time for their companies. And the nice thing is, I don&#8217;t charge you anything for my services. I&#8217;ve been doing this for over 20 years, so I know the industry inside and out. I guarantee you it&#8217;s worth a call. You have no excuse since I don\u2019t charge you anything. So send me an email, give me a call. Also, don&#8217;t forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel so you don&#8217;t miss the next video I put out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>AI is reinventing the way we work<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, well, first of all, I want to give you a round of applause. Good for you for looking into enterprise AI. It is the way of the future. Everything I see about AI shows it\u2019s absolutely going to reinvent the way we work. It&#8217;s going to be like when the internet first came out\u2014that\u2019s how big it is, and how much change it&#8217;s going to create. So good for you for being ahead of the curve and looking into this up front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But how do you get started? There\u2019s so much confusion out there, and it seems daunting. There are so many things to think about. Well, here are the five baby steps for getting an enterprise AI solution for your company and starting to get your feet wet with enterprise AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Introducing Five Baby Steps to AI<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Number one is purchasing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U7pihSk80Gs&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aerocominc.com%2F&amp;source_ve_path=MjM4NTE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">multi-model secure AI solution<\/a>. So what do I mean by that? Let&#8217;s break it down a little bit. First, multi-model. There are many different LLMs out there. Watch my video on the different LLMs and the strengths each one has. Until 5 to 10 years from now, you probably won\u2019t even know all the ways your company will use AI. So why corner yourself into one LLM? Get a multi-model solution so your company has access to all the major LLMs and can use them for everything from coding to creative writing, marketing, and sales analysis. Multimodal solutions are actually the most economical for medium to large-sized companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/wp-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/wp-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/wp-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/wp-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/wp-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/wp-1-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/wp-1-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/wp-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4>Step 1: Choose a Multi-Model Secure AI Solution<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Multimodal access will definitely save you a lot of money. So that\u2019s number one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, you want an option that protects PII\u2014all that private information. You want a solution that automatically detects PII and either prevents an employee from submitting it into the AI platform or blurs it out. Your multi-model should also have role-based access so that you can give different employees different permissions based on their roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your AI solution should also be SOC 2 compliant, meaning they must document and prove that they are secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your multi-model solution should also have single sign-on, so it\u2019s automatically provisioned when you add or remove employees. This makes life easier since you shouldn\u2019t have to program your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/enterprise-ai-solutions-comparing-the-best-llms-like-gpt-4o-chatgpt-4-gemini-llama-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">enterprise AI<\/a> separately from everything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should also provide logs of activity so you can track employee queries for security purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And lastly, your multi-model secure enterprise AI solution should put it in writing that it will not learn from your company\u2019s data. You do not want AI models learning from sensitive employee information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Step 2: Train Employees with Internet-Based Use<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, once you\u2019ve purchased the right solution, step number two is to give it to your employees to use with the public internet. It\u2019s secured, it\u2019s not learning from company data\u2014just let employees start using it. Before connecting to your company\u2019s own data, let them practice with internet-based use cases. Then, check in once in a while to see how they\u2019re using it. You can\u2019t really predict in advance how employees in different roles will use AI until they\u2019ve had hands-on experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Step 3: Connect AI to Your CRM<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Step number three is to connect your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rmwtx-_u7Bs&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aerocominc.com%2F&amp;source_ve_path=MjM4NTE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">enterprise AI<\/a> solution to your company\u2019s CRM. After you\u2019ve purchased a solution and allowed employees to use it on the public internet for six to eight months, you can then integrate it with your CRM. This allows your sales team to ask questions like: Who\u2019s our biggest customer? How much money do they spend with us? How often do we contact them? Can you give me a report on that? That type of functionality will start driving more value from your AI solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Step 4: Prepare a Data Lake for Company Information<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Step number four is to begin moving your company\u2019s data to a data lake, such as SharePoint. This centralizes your company\u2019s information so AI can access it. SharePoint is one of the most popular methods of storing data for AI. Do this while employees are still getting used to AI through the internet and CRM integrations. This way, when you\u2019re ready, your data will already be in one place, organized, and accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Step 5: Start with HR Data Integration<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Step number five is your first step into connecting AI to company data\u2014HR is a great place to start. For example, make HR documentation available for employees to query. That way, they can ask: Do we have Juneteenth off this year? What holidays do we get for Christmas? Is orthodontics covered in our dental insurance? Instead of pinging HR or digging through documents, employees can quickly query AI. This saves both employee time and company resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Beyond the first five steps<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>After those five steps, your company will already be far down the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/think\/topics\/enterprise-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI path<\/a>. You\u2019ll also have gained enough insight to determine what step six should be. So, those are the five baby steps to get started with an enterprise AI solution for your medium or large company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Which Enterprise AI Solution should your company quote?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, if you\u2019d like my recommendations on the best multi-model secure enterprise AI solutions to quote, reach out and contact me. Medium to large-sized companies are my specialty. Reach out, send me an <a href=\"mailto:AskMike@AeroComInc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email<\/a>\u00a0or give me a call (714.593.0011). I\u2019ve been a broker for major vendors in communications and AI technology for over 20 years. I know which vendors to quote and which to avoid. I\u2019ve helped thousands of companies make faster, smarter decisions. When you contact me, I\u2019ll ask a few questions to qualify your requirements, introduce you to the best AI solutions, and oversee demos. I\u2019ll also make sure you get the best pricing. And best of all, my services cost you nothing\u2014the providers pay my broker fee. So there\u2019s no excuse not to reach out. That\u2019s the reason I make these videos. If you found this helpful, a nice way to say thanks is to reach out if you\u2019re a medium or large company needing help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel so you don\u2019t miss next week\u2019s video, and go check out our website at Aerocominc.com. Thanks for watching, and I\u2019ll catch you on the next one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"mailto:askmike@aerocominc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ask-Mike.png\" rel='magnific' alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10739\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your company is in the market for an enterprise AI solution. But it feels a little overwhelming. Where does AI want our data to be? How does it reach it? How do employees know how to use it? 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