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PushButton AI Team ·
AI companies just swallowed 44% of all UK small business funding in 2025. That's not a trend. That's a land grab. And if you've already bought an AI tool your team never opened, you know exactly how
AI companies just swallowed 44% of all UK small business funding in 2025.
That's not a trend. That's a land grab.
And if you've already bought an AI tool your team never opened, you know exactly how that money feels when it disappears.
You're not tech-stupid. You're just surrounded by people profiting from your confusion. Consultants who sell the sizzle and vanish. SaaS vendors counting on you not cancelling that £200 monthly subscription.
Here's what that funding stat actually tells you: investors are betting on AI infrastructure, not on tools that help your business tomorrow. The money flooding into AI companies isn't solving your daily problems — it's building products that will need selling to someone. Probably you.
That gap between "AI is everywhere" and "AI works in my business" is real. And it's being made wider on purpose.
The practical move right now: before evaluating any AI tool, write down the one task that wastes your team the most hours each week. One task. That's your starting point, not a platform demo.
Find the problem first. The right tool becomes obvious after that.
What's the one repetitive task that immediately came to mind when you read that?
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AI companies took a record 44% of UK smaller-business equity in 2025, the British Business Bank finds, as overall investment fell 4% and ...
