Mercer: AI cut pitch analysis workflow from 60 days to 60 minutes
Shelton Mercer · 60 Days Down to 60 Minutes Changed How Shelton Thinks About His Own Team · Jun 23, 2026 · at 13:28
Shelton Mercer, founder and civic leader, discusses with Sean Weisbrot how adopting AI tools dramatically accelerated their team's data synthesis workflows.
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“It used to take us 60 days to get all of the data. We record all of the pitches from our leaders, and then we would take them and our group would listen to them And pull out all the highlights and try to do some actual cross-referencing through things that are working. We now take that 60 days. That is down to 60 minutes where we can use the power of technology to get all of that, that coalescing, all of that Stare and compare together.”
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