Hey friends,

A few days ago I was sitting in a hotel room in Perth, running through a pitch one more time. Enterprise Monkey had been selected as one of five Australian finalists in the 2026 AI for Good Innovation Factory, organised by Innovate Australia and backed by the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency.

We won.

Enterprise Monkey will represent Australia at the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva this July, held at Palexpo from 7 to 10 July, competing on the global stage alongside winners from other countries. It still has not fully sunk in.

I will share more about what we pitched and what we are building soon. But sitting here, processing everything, reflecting on the people I met through this process and the conversations I had with the team at Innovate Australia, something bigger keeps pulling at me. Something I want to talk about this week.

When OpenAI launched, it was built on a promise. AI would be accessible to everyone and used for the benefit of humanity. Somewhere in the race to commercialise, that promise got buried. What we see now is a lot of greed, a lot of competition for dominance, a lot of talk about who will own the future. Humanity became an afterthought.

I am not saying the technology itself is bad. I am saying we collectively stopped asking the right question: what should this actually be used for?

Being around the other finalists and participants in this program reminded me that there are people quietly doing extraordinary things with AI. Not for headlines. Not for valuations. For actual human outcomes.

My own father runs an education program in India for underprivileged girls who cannot afford formal schooling. I have been using AI to help him design curriculums, build frameworks, create worksheets and learning resources. But here is the part that still surprises me: we are now using a voice AI tool that talks to the students in their own language, at their own comprehension level, giving each of them a personalised learning experience. These are kids who would otherwise have no access to that kind of individual attention.

That is not a Silicon Valley pitch deck. That is a girl in rural India having a conversation with an AI tutor in her own dialect, learning at her own pace, because someone cared enough to build it.

I keep coming back to a simple comparison. Fire can burn a house down. Electricity can kill someone. But fire also cooks the meal that feeds a family surviving an extreme winter. Electricity powers the tools that make basic livelihood possible.

AI is the same. It is neither good nor evil. It is a mirror of intention.

Countries are trying to weaponise it. Companies are using it as an excuse to cut headcount and dress it up as innovation. But the same technology can give a child an education, give a doctor a second opinion, give a small business owner the capacity of a team three times their size.

The difference is not the tool. It is the person holding it.

Through this process, through preparing for this pitch, through winning something I did not expect to win, through meeting the people in this space, I keep landing on one thought.

What if we all decided to use the power of AI to solve common human problems? Problems that exist right now, that affect real people, that we have not been able to solve because of a lack of resources, education, or skills.

Not theoretical problems. Real ones. The ones sitting in plain sight.

If you had an opportunity to solve one problem with the help of AI, what would it be?

I am not asking that to be poetic. I am asking because I think most of us have an answer, and most of us have not started building it yet.

The AI conversation has become so loud, so competitive, so focused on market share and model benchmarks, that it is easy to forget the original premise. This technology was supposed to help people.

It still can. It already is, in pockets, in quiet corners, in programs most of us have never heard of.

I am not naive about the commercial reality. Enterprise Monkey is a business. I sell AI services for a living. But I also know that the most meaningful work I have done with AI this year has had nothing to do with revenue. It has been watching a voice AI explain fractions to a twelve-year-old girl in Hindi.

We are heading to Geneva in July. I will share more about what we are taking to the global stage soon. For now, I will just say that the potential of AI to do actual good in the world is not a talking point. It is real, it is happening, and it needs more people paying attention to it.

See you next week,

— Aamir

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