AI for Small Business: What It Actually Looks Like in Practice

May 29, 20263 min readDaren Jay
AI for Small Business: What It Actually Looks Like in Practice

You do not need to become an AI company. You do need to use AI.

Remember when "we have a website" made you cutting edge? That window is open again. This time it is AI, and the businesses that move first will pull ahead the same way the early websites did.

Alex Hormozi runs companies that did over $250 million in revenue last year, and in this video he strips the hype out of AI and shows how it actually gets used inside a working business.

His central point lands hard for anyone running a business on the Northern Beaches: you do not have to become an "AI company" any more than you had to become an "internet company". AI is a tool, the same way the web was a tool, and the owners who pick it up early tend to get disproportionately rewarded for the effort.

Across the fifteen minutes he covers ground you can act on. Why handing the whole thing to a tech person and walking away rarely works. Why a half-built AI tool will always look worse than a process you have spent years refining, and how to run a fair comparison instead. And where AI genuinely makes a business better, cheaper, faster and less risky, backed by real numbers from PayPal, JP Morgan and Klarna before he brings it down to something a small team could start this week.

Video: Alex Hormozi, Acquisition.com. Shared for educational purposes. We are not affiliated with Alex Hormozi or Acquisition.com.

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