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What Are You Waiting For?

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82% of enterprise decision-makers now use AI weekly. 46% use it daily. These aren't employees experimenting on the side—these are the people running things. VPs, C-suite, the ones setting strategy and making decisions. (Wharton, 2025)

Meanwhile, only about 9% of small businesses have adopted AI. (SBA, 2025) That's SBA's cut of Census data on firms reporting active AI use, not just experimentation.

That's the gap. The models are the same. You have access to the same AI enterprise leaders are using daily.

4 Years in AI: Trial by Fire

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4 Years in AI

In 2022, I walked away from a 15-year career in bond trading to build AI models. I thought I knew exactly how this would play out.

I was right about the opportunity. I was wrong about the timeline.

That gap between promise and payoff is the real story, and it's the reason most small businesses still haven't figured out how to make AI work for them.