Most small businesses are not ready for AI
Not because the technology is too advanced, and not because the owner is behind. Because AI needs inputs that most small businesses have not built yet — and there is a specific test for whether yours has.
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Most of what gets published about small-business technology exists to produce a phone call. These are written to be useful on their own — methods you can run yourself, with the arithmetic shown and the assumptions named.
Not because the technology is too advanced, and not because the owner is behind. Because AI needs inputs that most small businesses have not built yet — and there is a specific test for whether yours has.
Every article about this quotes the same unsourced statistic. You do not need it. Four numbers you already own will get you closer, and pulling them takes about twenty minutes.