SBA Releases FY2025 Small Business Procurement Scorecard as Questions Persist Over ...

Everyone talks about AI tools like they're plug-and-play. They're not. And the government just proved it. The SBA's FY2025 Small Business Procurement Scorecard landed this week — and the debate isn't

Everyone talks about AI tools like they're plug-and-play. They're not. And the government just proved it.

The SBA's FY2025 Small Business Procurement Scorecard landed this week — and the debate isn't about the grades. It's about whether the grades even measure the right things.

Sound familiar?

If you've ever bought an AI tool and thought "wait, is this actually working?" — you're not alone. The problem isn't that you picked wrong. The problem is nobody agreed on what success looks like before the money was spent.

That's the real lesson here. Even federal agencies with procurement teams, legal departments, and budgets you can't imagine still struggle to define what "good" looks like before they commit.

You don't have that luxury. Which means your first move isn't picking a tool. It's picking one specific problem you want solved, then defining what a win looks like in 30 days. Revenue recovered. Hours saved. Errors reduced. One number.

That single step separates the businesses that get ROI from AI from the ones paying $200/month for software nobody opens.

What's the one problem in your business you'd most want AI to solve — if you knew it would actually work?

#SmallBusiness #AIStrategy #BusinessGrowth #AIImplementation

Original Source

Small Business Sponsor. You may also like. OS AI Insider: SEWP VI Award Announcement Followed by New Challenge · Official list of GSA Polaris GWAC ...