Framework
The CURA Companies
Todd's filter for where AI creates the most value: Complex, Urgent, or Administrative businesses.
How it works
- 1Complex: hundreds of variables, like routing every airplane to every gate for a major airline.
- 2Urgent: time-critical logistics, like moving a human heart from Miami to New York in transplant time.
- 3Administrative: massive data plus massive rule sets, like healthcare claims processing.
- 4The thesis: where human capacity has capped growth, the delta of AI improvement is largest.
Hear it on the podcast
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