About
25 years of looking at how the work actually happens.
I'm Paul K. King II, Principal of PK2 AI Advisors.
For 25 years I worked inside Procter & Gamble, Sprint, AT&T, and Ericsson, in decision support, FP&A, and analytics. Four companies, one job: look at how the work actually happens, then find the handful of changes that pay.
The 25 years
Different uniforms, the same job.
The title changed at every stop. Decision support. FP&A. Analytics. Director-level financial visibility inside billion-dollar businesses.
Underneath it, the work never changed. Somebody hands you a piece of a business and asks where the money is going and what to do about it. So you go and look at how the work actually happens. Not the org chart. Not the software. The work. Then you come back with the few changes worth making, in the order worth making them.
Where
- Procter & Gamble
- Sprint
- AT&T
- Ericsson
Schooling
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Tuskegee. MBA, Indiana University Kelley.
The discipline
Companies that size have whole departments for it.
You have a bookkeeper and a gut feeling. That's not a knock on you, it's arithmetic. Nobody at your size is paid to spend a week watching where your week goes. So nobody does, and the same jobs keep eating the same hours, year after year.
The assessment
The same discipline, pointed at your week.
The AI Tools Assessment is that job, sized for a business that doesn't have a department for it. I look at your actual week. The invoices you re-enter, the quotes you write from scratch, the follow-up that only happens when you remember it. Then I name the 5 to 7 jobs eating the week and the fix for each one.
Sometimes the fix is AI. Often it's plainer than that. A form so you stop typing the same address into two systems. A reminder that goes out without you. A template instead of a blank page. Sometimes the right answer is to stop doing the thing at all.
I'll also tell you what should stay manual, because knowing what not to automate matters just as much.
What you end up holding is a plan, not a platform. You should be able to run it without me. That's the point. I'm not trying to become a line on your overhead.