Framework
Six AI use-case primitives
The question it answers
When a leadership team starts bringing AI into the business, which kinds of work should it look at first to find AI use cases worth trying?
- Origin
- OpenAI, 2025
- Diagram type
- Hub diagram
- Level of analysis
- Firm
Diagram
Six AI use-case primitives
AI use case
Content creation
Research
Coding
Data analysis
Ideation and strategy
Automation
Pitfalls
Pitfall
The guide's scanning questions: repetitive manual work, skill bottlenecks, and moments of ambiguity where it is hard to start.
Sources
References
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- OpenAI (2025) Identifying and scaling AI use cases: how early adopters focus their AI efforts [guide].No DOIcdn.openai.comSource page