4 Critical AI Questions Small Businesses Asked in 3 Months (And Why Your Answers Matter)

Over the past quarter, the Tech Tea podcast hosted by McLean Forrester has become an unexpected pressure test for artificial intelligence in the real world. Not the world of billion-parameter models or Silicon Valley boardrooms, but the gritty, cash-flow-sensitive ecosystem of small and medium-sized businesses, or SMBs. In Episode 13, titled “We Did 4 AI Talks in 3 Months. Here’s What Small Businesses Keep Asking Us,” the hosts distilled dozens of conversations into four recurring, high-stakes questions.