Every small business is being sold software and AI at the moment, and most of the pitch is about what the tool can do rather than what it will save you. The useful question is narrower: which jobs in your week are repetitive, and what would it cost to stop doing them by hand?

This is where we cover that: what AI is genuinely good at in a small business, buying software you can get your data back out of, and the projects that pay for themselves against the ones that only look modern.