331 | How to Find Your Highest-ROI AI Automations With Corey Ganim

Everyone wants to automate their business with AI. But what should you actually automate first?
Most companies are starting in the wrong place. They pick ChatGPT, Claude, agents, or automation tools and immediately start building. But the tool isn’t the strategy. The real opportunity is figuring out which problems are worth solving first.
In this episode of Leveraging AI, Isar Meitis sits down with Corey Ganim, founder of Return My Time, to break down a practical framework for doing exactly that: Audit. Optimize. Automate.
Instead of throwing AI at every problem, Corey shows you how to identify the bottlenecks costing your business time, money, or customer experience, rank them by impact and effort, calculate potential ROI, and then choose the simplest solution that gets the job done.
Sometimes that's an AI automation.
Sometimes it's an existing $20-a-month software tool.
And increasingly, AI can even help you implement the solution once you've picked it.
In this session, you'll discover:
Why choosing the right business problem matters more than choosing between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok
The three outcomes business owners actually care about: making more money, saving time, and improving quality
How to run an AI-powered audit of your own business
Why asking AI one question at a time produces better strategic insights
The impact-vs.-effort matrix for identifying your highest-value quick wins
Why you should consider off-the-shelf software before building custom AI automation
How to calculate the real ROI of buying back your time
How to have AI create a step-by-step implementation plan for nontechnical users
How AI computer-use capabilities can move beyond recommending software and actually help set it up
Corey Ganim is the founder of Return My Time, where he helps businesses identify where they are wasting time and build systems to get that time back.
His approach centers around a simple framework: Audit, Optimize, Automate.
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