AI News & Strategy
for Small Business Owners

A graphic doing the rounds says IKEA automated 8,500 roles, laid off nobody, and made $1.4B in new revenue. One…

What AI actually looks like inside six different kinds of small business: a service company, a retailer, a restaurant, a…

The median small business paying for AI spends about $28 a month, not several hundred. A practical buying guide to…

February 24, 2026

Business Contingency Plan: A 90-Day Build for SMBs

Most contingency plans fail weeks before the emergency, because nobody agreed what counted as the trigger. Score your risks, cut…

February 24, 2026

Most vision statements are half a vision. Collins and Porras's framework splits it into core ideology and envisioned future, and…

February 23, 2026

Microsoft's gaming CEO vowed no soulless AI slop, and six months later there is still no rule behind it. Here…

February 23, 2026

A three-year goal is a division problem before it is a strategy. What the BLS survival curve says about the…

February 22, 2026

Amazon's Agent Policy has been in force since March 4, 2026, and the obligations run to your seller account rather…

February 22, 2026

Eisenhower never drew the grid, and he was quoting someone else. Why sorting tasks does not fix a small business…

February 21, 2026

Tesla's US and European support pages list different minimum software versions for Grok, and the European number is the one…

February 21, 2026

Your last ten decisions already wrote one. This playbook audits them, turns the pattern into a sentence that can refuse…

February 21, 2026

Three parties can read a work chat: the vendor, your own workspace admin, and in one real case a court.…

February 20, 2026

Two published datasets, US labor projections and measured AI usage, point the same direction. Five roles are holding, and the…