Most post-close AI plans die in the approval chain. Five people, five handoffs, a week each. We went the other way. One person who knew the operation, could make the calls and connect every tool built the company brain: guides, gear, vans, trips and the rules between them. Built in weeks. Corrected by the crew all season. Weekly planning went from an estimated 20 to 40 hours to 2 to 4. Build it centralized. Let the crew correct it. Then hand it over. An approach worth testing in the first hundred days after an acquisition. How far can one person go? Here’s the full list: redacted Is this where AI actually starts replacing roles, or does it just change what the people you keep spend their day on?