TerDawn DeBoe covers small business AI strategy and ROI measurement, challenging conventional wisdom about enterprise AI implementation. With over ten years of experience in digital marketing and business growth scaling, she founded the Institute for Business AI ™ and developed
Why Monthly AI Budgeting Is Essential For Small Businesses
Uber spent its 2026 AI budget in four months. Anthropic built spend caps into Claude Enterprise. The cap-and-trace playbook small businesses need now.
The People Who Build AI Just Admitted It Will Cut Jobs At Scale
AI’s own builders are funding research into the jobs it will displace. Here is how small business owners decide what to automate and what stays human.
Google Stopped Sending Customers To Your Website. Find Them Elsewhere
AI Overviews answer customers before they reach your site. Here is how small businesses build a channel no algorithm controls.
AI Slipped Into Your Business Tools. Three Questions Take It Back
AI just landed inside QuickBooks, HubSpot and the tools you already pay for. Here are three questions to ask before it acts on your money and your clients.
OpenAI Just Started Selling What Your Consulting Business Sells
OpenAI and Anthropic just launched their own AI consulting firms. Here is what independent advisors and small firms should do to keep their clients.
You Think Your AI Content Is Protected. The Supreme Court Disagrees
The Supreme Court let stand a ruling that AI-only content cannot be copyrighted. Now the infringement liability sits with your business. Here is how to protect it.
34,000 Small Businesses Said AI Is Working. The Data Says Otherwise
Learn why AI adoption alone doesn't prove success and discover five metrics every small business should use to accurately measure AI ROI.
AI Just Replaced The Five Tools Small Businesses Duct-Taped Together
Discover how Claude for Small Business replaces multiple AI tools with workflows that automate finance, marketing, HR and customer service.
Small Businesses Trust AI With Marketing. Their Customers Do Not
Learn why AI marketing for small business fails without first-party customer data and how personalization builds trust and improves marketing ROI.
Companies Fired Workers For AI. Now They Want Them Back
AI layoffs left companies short on talent. Now some employers are rehiring workers after discovering AI couldn't replace every job.
