š A Quick SME Guide to AI Agents
Welcome back to AI for SME Success, your weekly dose of quick, actionable AI insights for your business. Hereās what weāre covering today: AI Adoption Prompts, Workflows, and Agents: A Quick SME Guide Many major AI vendors have released their own agent technologies this year, Google included, with its new agentic tool launched just last […]
šWhich AI Tool Best Adds Holiday Elements to Your Images
AI Tools Which AI Tool Best Adds Holiday Elements to Your Images? As a small business owner, you want to quickly and easily add holiday elements to your marketing, website, emails, and brand assets without disrupting your brand identity. I tested four AI image-editing tools to see which ones follow instructions accurately, respond well to […]
šAI PDCA (Finally) & How to Forecast Holiday Demand
AI Governance AI PDCA. Finally. In its recent piece How evals drive the next chapter in AI for businesses, OpenAI points that āEvalsā are shaping the future of AI in business. Eval cycle is defined by OpenAI as Specify, Measure, and Improve. Specify ā Define what āgreatā looks like: outcomes, workflows, and key decision points.Measure […]
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š¼ SME With AI: AI That Pays Off An entrepreneur Michael Salvatore, 44, founder of Heritage Hospitality Group, used to pull cost-of-goods reports only once or twice a year for his two cafĆ©s, two bars, and bicycle shop. He spent hours manually calculating potential price adjustments based on the cost of raw materials. Now, thanks […]
š°My New Article in Canadian SME Magazine. āØ New Webinar, Tools to Try, Solopreneur with AI, & More!
The Three Biggest Mistakes SMEs Make When Adopting AI Here are highlights from my recent article The Three Biggest Mistakes SMEs Make When Adopting AI published on Nov 11 in Canadian SME Magazine. ā Mistake #1: Giving AI More Responsibility Than It Can Handle One out of four ChatGPT answers is inaccurate, according to an […]
Clients Are Losing Trust in AI-Generated Work. Three Ways Businesses Can Respond.
Why Clients Are Losing Trust in AI AI is everywhere, but so is skepticism. According to the World Economic Forumās 2025 Global Risks Report, AI-related misinformation and disinformation now rank among the top five global risks. A Harris Poll Canada survey (Oct 2025) found that nearly 90% of Canadians worry about AI-generated misinformation. Although focused […]
š§° A Practical Guide to AI ROI.
New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC found that AI assistants misrepresented news content in nearly 45% of tested cases. Similarly, a study by OpenAI study found that only one in four ChatGPT answers is correct. So, does this mean we have to fact-check every single AI output?Not necessarily. This […]
How 4 Top AI Chatbots Handled Route Optimization Task.
This week, we tested four leading AI chatbots, ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude, on a practical business task: route optimization. Their performance was measured against a non-optimized baseline, where delivery locations were arranged alphabetically rather than by efficiency. ? The top-performing AI tool cut total route duration by 46% and driving distance by 57% […]
š The āBoringā AI Secret to Big Business Wins. Why Your Business Needs SOPs and How AI Can Create Them Fast.
Whether you want to create a budget, forecast demand, design fuel-efficient routes, optimize crew schedules, or catch invoice errors, your AI needs clear standard operating procedures (SOPs) to follow. In todayās newsletter, we discuss what SOPs are, why small businesses and solopreneurs need them, and how to create SOPs with AIās help. ? The Takeaway […]
ā³Let AI Do Your Sand Tasks! How small businesses can apply AI lenses to task prioritization. Ā
? What Is the RocksāPebblesāSand Principle? Stephen Covey’s classic Big Rocks Time Management Principle teaches that success comes from focusing on the most important tasks, the “big rocks”, before smaller, less meaningful ones fill up our schedules. In the framework: ? The Surprising Power of Sand Admiral William H. McRaven, author of Make Your Bed, […]