Brandon Beddes
Technical PM | AI integration & process automation
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The AI projects that actually stick aren't the flashy ones.
They're the ones where someone looked at a task their team did every single week and asked does a human really need to be doing this?
I built an automation for a team that was manually emailing 50 contractors every week,...
Contractor Availability & Scheduling Automation. Power Automate: A team was manually emailing 50 contractors individually to collect weekly availability, tracking responses through email threads, and building schedules by hand. I replaced the entire process with an automated...
AI Project Intelligence Agent. Regional CTOs were spending significant time making calls and digging through emails just to get up to speed on project status. I built an AI agent connected to Teams chats and SharePoint that automatically captures relevant emails and Teams...
AI Agent DevelopmentProject ManagementBusiness Workflow AutomationMicrosoft Copilot StudioMicrosoft OutlookMicrosoft Power Automate
One pattern I keep seeing on AI agent projects: the demo works great. Production is where things get complicated.
The issues that kill adoption usually have nothing to do with the AI itself. Permissions that were never mapped. A data source messier than anyone expected. An...
Most project managers are still getting status updates the same way they did 10 years ago.
A standup. A follow-up email. A call to find out what the last call was about.
The information exists, it's in your emails, your meeting notes, your chat threads. The problem isn't access,...