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We help founder-led businesses redesign how they create value using Operational Excellence, AI, and continuous improvement.

15/08/2026

Operational Excellence + AI: Founders, don’t wait too long.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth:
Your employees may already be using ChatGPT, Claude or other AI tools to analyze business information, write reports, summarize documents or solve operational problems.

And sometimes, they may be putting sensitive company data into those tools without a clear company policy or understanding where that data goes.
Meanwhile, competitors are already exploring how AI can change the way they operate.

So the question isn't:
“Should we use AI?”

The important questions are:
🔐 What data can AI access?
👤 Who should be allowed to see it?
🧠 What does the AI provider do with that data?
🛡️ How do we protect sensitive business information?
📋 How do we manage permissions, compliance and auditability?
⚙️ How can AI actually improve our operations?

Think of your business like a hotel:
🏨 Your business = the hotel
📚 SOPs = the handbook
📊 KPIs = the control panel
🗄️ Database = the operational memory
🔑 Permissions = the room keys
🤖 AI = the operations intelligence
🔄 Continuous Improvement = the engine

The goal isn't to give AI the master key.
It's to give the right AI agent the right key, to the right information, for the right purpose.

And build the system so that your business data, processes and knowledge become a secure, continuously improving operational memory.
Founder, don't wait too long to answer these questions.
AI adoption is already happening inside your organization.

The question is whether you are managing it, or simply allowing it to happen.

13/08/2026

Operational Excellence and AI. This is crazy! I find myself saying this more and more: “What is happening here...?”

When I wrote my Master’s thesis in 2019, I remember the phrase: “Software is eating the world.”
Today I would say: AI is eating the world for breakfast. 😂

As someone with a background in Operations, I keep thinking: “This is crazy.” Because today I can do things I never could before without AI:
→ Build websites
→ Program
→ Build an APP
→ Explore ideas I couldn't realistically execute before
→ Find another way when I get stuck

You basically have a coach, mentor, sparring partner and technical expert sitting next to you. Just ask. 😉

And this is especially for founders. If you're a founder thinking about what AI means for your business, connect with me here. I genuinely enjoy talking about this stuff.

So, back to the topic.
During my Bachelor's in Value Creation, one Lean principle always stuck with me:
“Improve like the turtle, not like the hare.”
The hare jumps around without structure. The turtle has a clear goal and moves toward it step by step. That is Operational Excellence.

At the core of OpEx is continuous improvement:
→ Systematically improve
→ Improve the process
→ Remove waste
→ Create more value
→ Repeat

Improve like the turtle. 🐢 And that principle is still right.
But what happens when you put AI into the process?

YES! The turtle on Colombian co***ne. 😂
No side effects. Descended from Superman, cape included. Completed its first Ironman and finished Top 10. And now drinks Red Bull just to calm down. 😂🐢🚀

Dear Founder, don't wait too long before you start systematically integrating AI into your OpEx approach.
The turtle is still the turtle.
It just got a hell of an engine.
Just saying...

10/08/2026

The world is changing. Or more accurately, AI is changing the world.

What does that actually mean for your business?

Innovation only counts if the market buys it. A better product or service that nobody purchases isn't innovation, it's a prototype. Don't wait too long to figure out what "better" means for your business now.

AI is not just a faster way to write an email. It's changing how value gets created inside a business, from the ground up.

I come from Lean Management. "The Machine That Changed the World" is a book I studied deeply, both in school and on the floor. Those principles still shape how businesses run today. Operational Excellence has never stood still, it keeps evolving.

AI is a shift on that same scale. It's disruptive, not incremental.

So don't wait to adapt your business model to this shift. You need to prepare it for what's next, starting now.

Two questions worth sitting with:

→ Where can AI create more or better value for your customers?
→ Where in your business does AI need to become a structural part, not a side tool?

If you already run a continuous improvement process, here's a concrete way to bring AI into it:

📎 "Analyze my website, check current market trends, and give me three ideas to improve the value my customers get from me."

📎 "Take this document showing my current process, and outline how I can integrate these improvements simply and quickly."

📎 "Build me a visual project plan for this, and show the risk and expected outcome of doing it versus not doing it."

That's the loop. AI sets the pace, your continuous improvement process sets the direction.

Don't wait too long.

Where in your business is AI still sitting outside the process instead of inside it?

09/08/2026

What happens to your business when efficiency becomes cheap?

I think this is one of the biggest questions founders need to answer right now.
- AI doesn't just make people more efficient.
- It is changing the economics of entire business models.
- A process that once required 5 people may require 2.
- A service that took 10 hours may take 2.
- A task that required specialist expertise can increasingly be supported by AI.

And that creates a problem:
If efficiency becomes cheap, efficiency itself becomes less valuable.
So the question can't simply be:
“How can I make my existing process faster?”
The bigger question is:
“What should this process look like now?”
That means founders need to rethink:
→ How is value actually created?
→ What does the client really pay for?
→ Which parts of the process still create differentiation?
→ Which processes should be redesigned completely?
→ Where can AI change the economics of delivery?
→ How can the business continuously improve as AI continues to change?

This is where I think Operational Excellence becomes more important, not less.

Because Operational Excellence was never really about making yesterday's process 5% faster. It's about understanding how the system creates value, finding the constraint, redesigning the process, measuring the result, and continuously improving it.

AI changes the possibilities inside that system.

So I believe the next generation of operational excellence is:

→ AI + Process Redesign + Continuous Improvement.

And the outcome shouldn't simply be “more efficiency.”

It should be:
More value created.
A stronger business.
And a business that depends less on its founder.

That's the shift I'm building MikeMars around.
What happens when we stop asking:
“How can AI make my business faster?”
and start asking:
“What should my business look like now that AI exists?”

04/08/2026

You run a marketing agency. From the outside it looks good. New clients, a growing team, a full calendar.

But if you're honest, you don't actually know how well your team is performing right now. You feel it more than you see it. And the more successful the agency gets, the bigger that blind spot becomes. More clients means more questions coming back to you. More team means more approvals that only move through you. Eventually you're back in the daily grind, even though you meant to work on the agency, not in it.

That's not a sign of bad leadership. It's just what happens when nobody has made an agency's processes systematically visible. Growth without a system just means more hours for you, not more freedom.

I spent the last two years working with an agency founder on exactly this, turning his daily operations into a system that runs on its own and shows him where the agency actually stands, without him personally backstopping every process. What came out of it is documented in a case study, with the real numbers, decisions, and the actual path there.

🚀 mikemars.org/case-study

Are you in that phase right now, where success is bringing more chaos instead of more freedom?

28/07/2026

I saw a poston LinkedIn where the founder of a successful YouTube channel was stuck in daily ops and build himlself time trap and asked for advice on how to get out of it. He was advised to hire someone. My first thought was to take a systems-lean-based approach and start to build an operating system, as it can give the founder all the freedom they need.

I've developed a framework (5+1 process framework) to build an efficient and effective operating system in "any" business. Therefore, I needed to know whether it would also work for a YouTube channel.

And it would: 🎯 Check out the result here: mikemars.org/creator-os 🚀

With such an operating system, you can easily view your current business status from anywhere, and preventive intervention becomes unnecessary. This isn't about a financial dashboard showing the last month's sales figures; it's about capturing and visualizing the right process kpi´s so that action can be taken immediately if needed.

23/07/2026

Picture two agencies right now. Both doing 2 million in revenue. Both good at the creative work.

◆ Agency A bolts AI onto the same chaos. Same approval bottlenecks, same founder checking everything before it ships. AI just makes the mess move faster.

◆ Agency B treats AI as a reason to rebuild. They map the production line, brief to strategy to creative to delivery, and remove every step that only exists because "that's how we've always done it." Then they let AI run inside that redesigned system.

In five years, only one of these agencies is still standing. And it is not the one with the better creative.

This already happened once. In the auto industry.

For decades, American automakers built cars on scale and craft, quality caught at the end of the line, not built in from the start. Then Toyota showed up with standard work and takt time, defects caught at the source instead of patched after. Same steel, same tools, completely different output. The manufacturers who treated it as "install some robots" got squeezed out. The ones who redesigned how work flowed took the market and never gave it back.

That exact split is happening in marketing agencies right now, compressed into quarters instead of decades. McKinsey surveyed 1,000 executives worldwide and matched it against real financial data. Companies with AI embedded across multiple functions generate nearly double the profit margins of peers using it in only a few departments, with three year ROIC more than five times higher.

Don't skip Operational Excellence.

→ Fix the process first. Then add the tool.
→ Build a business that doesn't need your approval for every decision.

I'm Mike, founder of MikeMars. I build MARS OS, a remote operating system for founder led agencies doing exactly this kind of rebuild, so the founder stops being the bottleneck and the agency runs without them in the room.

Which one of those two agencies does yours look like right now?

Source: McKinsey, "Putting AI to work: The operational excellence imperative," June 2026. mckinsey.com/capabilities/operations/our-insights/putting-ai-to-work-the-operational-excellence-imperative

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