26-05-2025
How Terzo is Using AI to Transform Enterprises, Create Efficiencies, and Restore Balanced Lives
The next generation of workplace tech shouldn't use AI to replace people. It should use it to restore people. Experts estimate that AI already saves professionals more than an hour...
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The next generation of workplace tech shouldn't use AI to replace people. It should use it to restore people.
Experts estimate that AI already saves professionals more than an hour daily on outsourced tasks. That number could increase to 12 hours in less than five years from this writing.
This is a productivity game changer. However, it creates a question: What do we do with all of this extra time?
One report found that nearly a third of professionals (29%) use their newfound free time to check their work and ensure its quality. Another near-third (28%) focus on creative endeavors, like innovating and problem-solving.
These are valuable tasks, but we must resist our value-driven modern economy's tendency to reinvest profits back into financial purposes.
We need to think bigger, consider the lives behind our work, and use some of our growing free time for things like balance, personal growth, and health.
That's where Terzo and the Terzo Cares Foundation come into the picture.
Terzo: Transformation Through Elimination
Terzo is a SaaS platform created to eliminate the noise. Co-founder Brandon Card had the idea after years spent working inside tech giants like IBM and Microsoft. Throughout that experience, Card saw how inefficiencies can drain resources.
One particularly appalling area was contract management. Teams scattered contracts across inboxes, OneDrive, local drives, and folders tucked away and forgotten on desktops.
This simple element of overall operations managed to drain shocking amounts of time, energy, and billions of dollars from global enterprises. We're talking about major companies here. Card once saw a Fortune 100 CIO sign a $40 million deal — only to ask him for a signed copy of the contract weeks later.
Card's lightbulb moment came when he realized contract management wasn't just inefficient. It was completely broken. There was no central system, no visibility, and no accountability.
Contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools indeed existed.
Digitally Managing Contracts
Developers designed these so that contract management and agreements between customers, vendors, partners, and employees could happen digitally, but they prioritized legal needs first. Nobody in critical areas like IT, procurement, or finance actually uses them. This meant team members often didn't know where in the contract lifecycle they were. They weren't aware of things like contract execution, performance tracking, renewal, or spending.
This led Card to a simple but seismic realization: No one had built CLM software for finance and procurement. In response, Card and Al Giocondi co-founded Terzo. This platform empowers Fortune 500 companies to manage contracts effectively, uncover hidden cost savings, and free up valuable time for strategic work.
The platform's first version functioned like Salesforce for the buyer, giving finance and procurement teams control over their supplier relationships. It was game-changing, providing supplier relationship management with contract intelligence and historical spend visibility in one place.
AI followed, becoming a central aspect of the current platform. Terzo's AI-as-a-service model now goes beyond visibility and data consolidation, automating the grunt work so business professionals can actually think, strategize, and lead.
From the beginning, the platform has been all about uncovering hidden inefficiencies. This saves teams time, money, and mental energy. A perfect example of this was when one of the largest aerospace companies in the world used Terzo to cut a 40-hour contract review process down to five minutes. That's .002% of the original time.
The Terzo Crossroads: Is Efficiency Enough?
Reducing the time required for something by 99.8% is more than efficient. It's a full-on reset of what's possible. This is why Card and his team had to clarify their purpose with Terzo. As time and resources freed up, they realized they were on to something bigger than just boosting efficiency and lowering spending.
It was about shifting cultures and, ultimately, saving people.
When executives are stuck doing menial work, it kills momentum. The time, focus, and energy that come from Terzo are meant to help teams stop surviving and start building.
Of course, that's easier said than done. The world of enterprise tech has become the new Wall Street. It is a high-pressure, high-stakes environment with no off switch. It has quietly adopted the same grind mindset, just without the suits — embracing long hours, relentless goals, and a culture that often rewards burnout over balance.
Terzo provided the opportunity to break free of that cycle, but opportunity on its own isn't enough. That's where the Terzo Cares Foundation comes in.
Brandon Card; Photo by Terzo
The Terzo Cares Foundation: Putting Meaning Behind Efficiency
Behind Terzo's software, artificial intelligence, and relentless pursuit of efficiency is a personal mission. This month, May 2025, Card is launching the Terzo Cares Foundation in memory of his late co-founder, Al Giocondi, who died by suicide in early 2024.
Giocondi built the Terzo sales engine from scratch and had his hands on every outbound message, demo, and process. But he was much more than an innovator and entrepreneur. He was the soul of the company and the heartbeat of its culture. He underplayed titles, eschewed office politics, and made everyone feel like family. Giocondi cared about individuals, showed up with heart, and was fiercely loyal. He made work fun and reminded everyone to laugh, breathe, and enjoy the journey.
Giocondi's spirit lies at the heart of the Terzo Cares Foundation. The nonprofit exists to honor his legacy by doing what he did best: making people feel seen, supported, and valued.
The foundation is also a key reminder that life is bigger than business. It's about impact, mental health, and showing up for each other the way Giocondi always showed up for his coworkers and friends.
Terzo Cares: A Focus on Financial Literacy and Mental Health
With that in mind, Terzo Cares is laser-focused on rewriting the rules by putting people first — not by ignoring AI, but by using it. This is why its two focal points are mental health and financial literacy.
The foundation addresses the former by challenging the concept of "work-life balance." In a digital-first, asynchronous, decentralized world, these lines have blurred. It's all life now. And nothing else matters if people aren't caring for their mental and physical health.
Terzo Cares focuses on teaching current and up-and-coming generations real, applicable life skills, such as breathwork, meditation, and how to talk about stress, burnout, and pressure. It emphasizes building cultures where performance and well-being aren't at odds—they're connected.
Why the dual focus on mental health and financial literacy? Because Terzo is a finance-first AI platform. Finance is in its DNA. Card is also aware that financial stress is destroying people's mental health.
Terzo Cares Foundation addresses the root of this problem by addressing financial literacy. Lack of understanding can lead to mountains of debt, followed by anxiety, depression, and burnout.
Terzo Cares goes beyond theory to teach real-life solutions, such as:
How to open your first bank account.
Setting up an LLC.
How to manage cash.
These skills go beyond school basics and build confidence in a world that is becoming more complex and expensive every day.
Using Tech: From Efficiency to Quality of Life
AI has to be about more than productivity and efficiency. The tech of the future must be focused on feeling better. It must help us create space for people to live better, think clearly, and actually enjoy their jobs again.
This isn't theory, nor is it charity. It's a blueprint for resilience and the opportunity to thrive in a world where we have the tools but often lack the understanding to do so.
When we can automate admin, it gives people their time, their focus, and their sanity back. Entrepreneurs like Brandon Card are going further by ensuring people understand and are empowered to use those gifts to improve their quality of life.
Less stress. Less burnout. More balance. That's the Terzo way.
Featured Image and Internal Image Credits: Photos by Terzo; Thanks!
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