REvidence Board
Meetings, messages, notes, and decisions scatter across tools. This board collects public workplace research on what that scattering costs — and why AIRI is designed to preserve the thread of execution locally.
Public workplace research · Cited sources · Not live telemetry
01Evidence Snapshot
of time in Microsoft 365 is spent communicating, not creating
57%
of workers struggle with too much time spent searching for information
62%
of knowledge workers find it hard to track down information
55%
more time spent in unnecessary meetings than on high-priority work, in poor meeting cultures
+50%
of companies believe they have reached AI maturity, despite near-universal investment
1%
Fig. 01 — Research benchmark · Percentages as reported by each cited study
02Research Briefs
01
Research Briefs
The average Microsoft 365 user spends 57% of their time communicating and only 43% creating. The founder's day is consumed by moving context between people instead of moving work forward.
What it means for AIRI
AIRI holds the context once, so it does not have to be re-communicated for every thread, tool, and person.
02
Founder Operations
62% of workers say they struggle with too much time spent searching for information, and 55% find it hard to track down the information they need. The note that held the decision is always somewhere else.
What it means for AIRI
A single local operating record ends the search: meetings, decisions, and tasks stay retrievable in one place, on your machine.
03
Research Briefs
Asana's Anatomy of Work research finds knowledge workers spend around 60% of their time on work about work — status chasing, duplicated effort, and searching — rather than the skilled work they were hired for.
What it means for AIRI
Execution continuity is the answer to work about work: when context carries forward, coordination overhead collapses.
04
Founder Operations
Atlassian's State of Teams reports that teams with poor meeting cultures spend 50% more time in unnecessary meetings than making progress on high-priority work. Meetings multiply when nothing preserves what was decided.
What it means for AIRI
When decisions keep their record, fewer meetings exist to re-decide them. Meeting memory is a substitute for meeting volume.
05
Local-First AI
McKinsey finds almost all companies are investing in AI, yet only 1% believe they have reached maturity. Tools are everywhere; durable, trusted integration into how an operation actually runs is rare.
What it means for AIRI
AIRI targets the gap itself: not another tool, but the memory layer that makes the operation continuous — locally, under the founder's control.
03Why AIRI Exists
Read together, the research describes one problem from four angles. Most of the working day goes to communicating, searching, and coordinating — not executing. Information is hard to find because it lives in fragments. Meetings multiply because nothing preserves what was decided. And AI investment has not closed the gap, because most AI is added as another tool rather than as the layer that holds the operation together.
AIRI exists for exactly this gap: an operating memory layer that preserves meetings, decisions, tasks, and daily context — so execution continues where it left off instead of restarting every morning.
04Local-First Memory Thesis
Thesis 01
Memory must be owned
An operating record holds the most sensitive material a company has: decisions, negotiations, plans. It belongs on the founder's machine, not in someone else's cloud by default.
Thesis 02
Trust is architectural
Local-first is not a policy promise that can change with a terms update. It is where the data physically lives. You can open the store, inspect it, export it, or delete it.
Thesis 03
Control precedes capability
A memory layer earns more responsibility only behind approval gates. Anything that acts externally waits for the founder. Connectors are optional and credential-controlled.
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