Using AI for business in northeastern Ontario: an entrepreneur and a business owner weigh in - CBC

You bought the AI tool. Nobody used it. $200/month, straight to the trash. That's not a you problem. That's a "wrong tool, wrong timing, zero implementation support" problem. A young entrepreneur in

You bought the AI tool. Nobody used it. $200/month, straight to the trash.

That's not a you problem. That's a "wrong tool, wrong timing, zero implementation support" problem.

A young entrepreneur in Sudbury, Ontario is doing something refreshingly simple — helping small businesses find one specific AI task that saves real time, then building from there. No massive overhauls. No six-month rollouts. Just one problem, one solution, one win.

That's the part the gurus skip. They sell you the vision and vanish. What actually works is narrower than they make it sound.

The businesses seeing results right now aren't doing more AI than you. They started smaller. They picked one repetitive task — answering the same customer questions, summarizing reports, drafting proposals — and automated just that. Then they measured it.

Here's your starting point: write down the three tasks your team does every week that feel like copy-paste work. That list is your AI roadmap. No consultant required yet.

One task. Thirty days. Measurable result. That's how this actually works.

What's the AI tool collecting dust in your business right now — and what were you promised it would do?

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Jake Feick, a young entrepreneur from Sudbury, Ont., launched Backend Solutions to help small businesses implement artificial intelligence.