How to Implement AI into Small Business
A 90-Day Plan to Put AI to Work Without an Enterprise Budget
Most advice about AI is written for companies with a data team. This book is written for the ones without. It assumes no analyst, no warehouse, and no budget for a platform — just an owner with a business to run and a suspicion that some of the work being done by hand should not be.
It is a plan rather than a survey: ninety days, a few focused hours a week, and a specific thing to do in each of them. Twenty-four workflows, more than fifty tested prompts, and the templates printed in the appendices so nothing has to be downloaded or signed up for.
It is also honest about the cases where the answer is to wait. Not every business should be spending money on this yet, and the book says which.
View on AmazonFour phases, in this order for a reason
Most small businesses start at automation and wonder why it does not hold. The first six weeks are what makes the last six work.
Organize
Weeks 1–3Find where the time actually goes, and get the information the business already holds into one place somebody can point at.
Codify
Weeks 4–6Write down how the work is really done, so a machine has something accurate to follow rather than a guess.
Automate
Weeks 7–10Put AI onto the specific tasks that earn it, using the tools the business is already paying for before buying anything new.
Sustain
Week 11 onKeep it working once the novelty has worn off — who owns it, how it is checked, and what to do when it drifts.
Who it is for
Owners and operators of businesses too small to hire a data team and too busy to run an experiment that does not pay for itself. Companies where the reporting lives in spreadsheets, somebody rekeys the same numbers every month, and AI has so far meant a subscription nobody opens.
It is not written for enterprise data leaders. That work is what the rest of this site describes, and the two are deliberately different.
Read the book, then talk to us
The book is designed to be useful on its own. If you work through it and want help with the part that is hardest in your particular business, that conversation is free and there is no obligation attached to it.
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