AI for a Small Business

A practical course for someone whose own money is at stake — a shop, a workshop, a clinic, a small agency, a nonprofit. How to find the two or three tasks where AI saves real hours, how to keep invented numbers and customer data out of trouble, what it should cost you a month, and how to run a two-week trial that gives you an honest answer instead of a hopeful one.

1. 1The Two Tasks Worth Doing7 minStart from where your hours actually go — frequent, text-shaped, cheap-to-check work — not from what the tool can do.
2. 2Answering Customers Without Losing Your Voice8 minGive it your facts on one page, ask it to flag what it does not know, and keep your hand on the send button.
3. 3Listings, Menus, Quotes and Proposals8 minThe model writes the sentences; every number, date and promise has to come from you.
4. 4Bookkeeping Without Handing Over Your Accounts8 minUse it to sort and to write; never to add up, and never as the place your records live.
5. 5Posts That Do Not Sound Generated7 minGenerated text reads generated because it is empty; fill it with what only you saw today.
6. 6What It Costs, and Keeping It Near Zero8 minPrice every tool against the hours or the cheaper tool it replaces, never against zero.
7. 7Your Customers' Data, and the Law Where You Are9 minStrip the data down, check and date the settings, and tell people in one honest sentence — you stay responsible either way.
8. 8The Cheap Tool, and an Honest Two Weeks9 minMeasure the week before, name the kill line in advance, and count the time spent fixing the output.