How businesses are navigating the promise and peril of AI - Kern Valley Sun
PushButton AI Team ·
How businesses are navigating the promise and peril of AI - Kern Valley Sun
75% of small business owners have "adopted AI tools."
But adoption and actually using them are two very different things.
You're not alone if you've got a subscription sitting there, paid monthly,
75% of small business owners have "adopted AI tools."
But adoption and actually using them are two very different things.
You're not alone if you've got a subscription sitting there, paid monthly, barely touched. That's not a failure of intelligence — that's a failure of implementation. Most tools get sold, not set up.
Here's what that SoFi data doesn't tell you: the owners getting real value from AI didn't start big. They started boring. One repetitive task. One workflow that ate time every single week. They automated that one thing, saw it work, then moved to the next.
The companies falling behind aren't the ones who waited. They're the ones who bought the wrong thing first and gave up after it didn't stick.
Your competitive edge isn't in having the most AI tools. It's in knowing which single problem AI should solve first in your specific business — and measuring the result within 30 days.
This week, write down the one task your team does repeatedly that follows the same steps every time. That's your starting point. Not a platform. Not a strategy. Just that one thing.
What's the AI tool you bought that your team never actually adopted — and what got in the way?
