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Plain answers on AI for small business
No hype and no jargon. These are straight answers to the questions we hear most from owners weighing AI and automation, including the honest cases where the answer is "not yet."
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- Pricing
What does an AI voice assistant actually cost a small business?
AI voice assistant pricing has no single number. See the real parts, why owning your stack beats per-seat SaaS, and how to get an honest estimate.
- How to choose
AI consultant, in-house hire, or a SaaS tool: how do you choose?
A fair, plain-language framework for Ontario SMB owners choosing between a SaaS tool, an in-house hire, and an AI consultant.
- Getting started
Where does AI actually help a small business, and where does it not?
A straight, unhyped look at the tasks AI is good at for an SMB, the tasks it is not, and how to tell which is which.
- Economics
What does "you own your stack" mean, and why can per-seat SaaS cost more?
What owning your stack means, why per-seat SaaS can cost more over time, and when renting software is still the smart call.
- Getting started
How do you tell if a business process is worth automating?
A plain, do-it-yourself checklist Ontario SMB owners can use to decide if a repetitive task is worth automating before calling anyone.
About these articles. We use AI tools to help research and draft some of the work here. A person checks each article before it goes live, and every number we quote links to where it came from.
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