Don’t just pick the low-hanging fruit — harvest the whole orchard
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ByDerek Britton,
Senior Vice President, Government Sales at Seekr
July 10, 2026 04:54 PM ET
The instinct is to point AI at low-stakes busywork. The bigger payoff is the high-stakes work everyone’s avoiding. Why don’t we have both?
The private sector isn’t just diving into the deep end of the artificial intelligence pool; it’s swimming with the sharks. The promise of dramatic efficiency improvements, accelerated production schedules and perhaps most important, vastly lowered costs, is fueling AI’s meteoric expansion across every industry. But these businesses are also exchanging AI’s potentially exponential rewards for increased tolerance to risk.
Government agencies don’t have that luxury.
Early last month, the General Services Administration published its Elimination, Optimization and Automation (EOA) Handbook, a guide to help agencies eliminate unnecessary tasks, optimize processes worth keeping and automate repetitive ones. The obvious tool to help achieve these...
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