Welcome, managers and bosses — start here

This space is for the people who sign off the purchase orders: managers and bosses of small and medium enterprises. You do not need a data team to follow anything here. You need one workflow that hurts.

I built ai4sme.org for exactly this. Everything on it is free:

1. The readiness assessment — fifteen minutes, ai4sme.org/assess. You get a score and a plain-language read of where your business stands.
2. The course — about three hours, ai4sme.org/learn. Written for the owner or team lead, not the engineer. Every lesson ends with one thing to try on your own business, drawn from three hundred and eight documented cases across twenty-five industries.
3. The SME AI Deployment Guide — one printable guide and checklist, ai4sme.org/guide. It takes you from "we know AI matters" to a workflow running in your business.

Start with the assessment. Then read the course. Then come back here.

Your first post: introduce yourself — name, industry, and the one task in your business you would fix first if it were free. I read every post in this space, and I would rather answer a real problem than a general question about AI.