West Virginia Small Business Development Center announces AI Pitch Competition winners
PushButton AI Team ·
West Virginia Small Business Development Center announces AI Pitch Competition winners
Small business owners just won an AI pitch competition in West Virginia. Not tech startups. Not funded ventures. Regular business owners who found one specific problem AI could solve.
That's the part
Small business owners just won an AI pitch competition in West Virginia. Not tech startups. Not funded ventures. Regular business owners who found one specific problem AI could solve.
That's the part nobody talks about.
You've probably tried the other way. Bought the tool, paid the monthly fee, watched your team ignore it. That $200/month sitting unused isn't a failure of you — it's a failure of how AI gets sold to business owners like us.
The winners of this competition didn't try to transform their whole operation. They picked one problem. One process that was costing them time or money. Then they found an AI approach to fix that specific thing.
That's the entire playbook. Not a six-figure overhaul. Not a consultant-led transformation. One problem, one solution, one measurable result.
Here's what you can do this week: Write down the single most repetitive task in your business that eats 3-5 hours. That's your starting point. Not AI strategy. Not digital transformation. Just that one task.
The business owners who are winning with AI right now didn't start big. They started focused.
What's the one task in your business you'd eliminate tomorrow if you could?
