💼 Can AI Agents Run a Business? The WSJ Experiment.

👋 Welcome back to AI for SME Success, your weekly dose of quick, actionable AI insights for small businesses. Here’s what we’re covering today: 💼Can AI Agents Run a Business? The WSJ Experiment. In a Wall Street Journal experiment, Anthropic tested an AI agent running a real vending machine business. They called the agent Claudius. […]

💡Insights from New Studies on AI Limits

👋 Welcome back to AI for SME Success, your weekly dose of quick, actionable AI insights for small businesses. Here’s what we’re covering today: Two New Studies on AI’s Limits Two interesting studies came out this week. A The Decoder article, “Even the Best AI Models Fail at Visual Tasks Toddlers Handle Easily,” published on […]

🛍️ How to Optimize Website for AI-Driven Sales

👋 Welcome back to AI for SME Success, your weekly dose of quick, actionable AI insights for small businesses. Here’s what we’re covering today: 🛍️ How to Optimize Website for AI-Driven Sales In a Jan. 8, 2026 Toronto Star article, “This Shopify merchant received over 50 orders from ChatGPT,” Estella Ren highlights a meaningful shift […]

📲 How to Build AI Apps Without Coding

👋 Welcome back to AI for SME Success, your weekly dose of quick, actionable AI insights for small businesses. Here’s what we’re covering today: 💰 How to Build Apps Without Coding A solopreneur with zero technical background can now build, and profit from, a commercial app using AI-powered “vibe coding,” a term for building software […]

🏷️ How to Keep AI Visuals On-Brand

👋 Welcome back to AI for SME Success, your weekly dose of quick, practical AI insights for small businesses. Here’s what we’re covering today: 🏷️ How to Keep Your AI Visuals On-Brand When you use AI for your business, one of the most important goals is preserving your brand voice, look, and consistency.AI can speed […]

🧑‍🎨How to Prompt with Visuals + Hallucination- Free Summary Tables

👋 Welcome back to AI for SME Success, your weekly dose of quick, actionable AI insights for small businesses. Here’s what we’re covering today: 🧑‍🎨 How to Prompt with Visuals📊 NEW: NotebookLM Summary Tables🚨 How to Check if Your AI Chats Were Sold🎁 Let’s Shape 2026 Together! 🖼️ How to Prompt with Visuals Did you […]

🖼️ GPT Image 1.5 vs. Google Nano Banana Pro

Welcome back to AI for SME Success, your weekly dose of quick, actionable AI insights for your small business. Here’s what we’re covering today: 🖼️  NEW GPT Image 1.5 vs. Google Nano Banana Pro Last night, OpenAI released a major upgrade to its image generation tool: GPT Image 1.5. This update appears to be a […]

📘 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. Here’s what we’re 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 […]

🎀Which 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 […]

🔁AI 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 “Evals” are shaping the future of AI in business. Eval cycle is defined by OpenAI as Specify, Measure, and Improve. Specify – Define what “great” looks like: outcomes, workflows, and key decision points.Measure […]