October 7, 2026

🤖 COPYING. JUST. ACCELERATED.

             

🚀 Audacious Move™ of the Week

COPYING. JUST. ACCELERATED.

Artificial intelligence is making businesses faster and more productive—but if everyone uses AI to produce similar ideas, strategies and customer experiences, differentiation becomes even more important.

🤖 AI Makes Copying Ridiculously Easy

AI is everywhere.

Organizations are using it to write.

Analyze.

Research.

Design.

Plan.

Serve customers.

Develop products.

And make decisions.

The promise is enormous.

Do things faster.

Do things cheaper.

Do more with fewer resources.

Great.

But there’s a strategic problem nobody seems to be talking enough about.

AI also makes it ridiculously easy to copy.

Ask the same questions.

Use the same data.

Study the same competitors.

Apply the same best practices.

And pretty soon everyone starts producing variations of the same thing.

Faster.

🐑 Welcome to the Accelerated Herd

I’ve argued for years that benchmarking is dangerous.

You study the best.

You copy what they do.

They study someone else.

They copy what they do.

Eventually everybody starts looking alike.

Welcome to the Herd of Sameness™.

AI pours gasoline on it.

Because now you can discover what everyone else is doing almost instantly.

And replicate much of it just as quickly.

That might improve your efficiency.

It will NEVER improve your competitive position.

Being faster at becoming the same is not a growth strategy.

🔥 CREATE NEW. DON’T COPY YESTERDAY.

This is why the first Move in the BE DiFFERENT Growth Playbook™ is CREATE IT.

You declare HOW BIG?

You choose WHO to SERVE.

You discover WHAT those specific customers CRAVE.

Then you determine HOW you intend to COMPETE & WIN.

Not by asking:

“What are our competitors doing?”

But by asking:

“What can we do to satisfy what the WHO craves in a way that no one else?”

That question changes everything.

Because the objective isn’t to become incrementally better than everyone else.

It’s to become The ONLY One™ who does what you do.

AI can help you get there.

But only if you use it to stimulate creation rather than accelerate imitation.

🎯 Turn AI Around

Here’s an Audacious Move.

Stop asking AI:

“What are the best companies in my industry doing?”

That question sends you straight toward the herd.

Instead ask:

“What is everybody in my industry doing—and what could I do that is completely different?”

Now AI has a different job.

Not showing you what to copy.

Showing you what to avoid.

Use technology to expose sameness.

Then use human imagination to escape it.

Because as AI makes copying easier, the strategic premium on being DiFFERENT goes UP.

Not down.

AI can accelerate your business.

Just make damn sure it isn’t accelerating you toward everyone else.

CREATE. DON’T COPY.

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Extraordinary businesses aren’t built by ordinary decisions.

They’re built one Audacious Move™ at a time.

Now go make yours.

Cheers,
Roy

• Posted 10.7.26 at 06:26 am by Roy Osing
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