AI Open forum: Q&A / Ask the AI expert
You already know AI is changing everything. You've heard it a hundred times. But here's what almost nobody is telling small business owners.AI is already deciding which businesses get recommended when a customer asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for help. Right now, most small businesses are invisible in those answers. That's not a future problem. It's a today problem. Lost customers, lost credibility, lost ground you won't easily get back.
"Selling harder is not the answer. Learning faster is."
And it's not just search. It's how your team gets work done. How you make decisions. How fast you move compared to the business down the road. Most owners are only scratching the surface — they opened ChatGPT once, maybe wrote a blog post, and moved on.
Meanwhile the businesses pulling ahead aren't smarter or better funded. They just have a system. They've taught AI how they work, so it stops forgetting. They've built habits around it instead of one-off experiments. And they show up in the answers their future customers are already reading.
That gap is starting to show — and this series closes it.
AI Open forum: Q&A / Ask the AI expert
Date
January 14, 2027
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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