AI+ Business Owners
Automate, Grow and Compete in the AI Era
AI for the business you actually run.
You're running a business, not a technology experiment. The AI noise is real — but the real risk is spending time on tools that don't move the needle. This book gives you 25 practical prompts across marketing, operations, and customer service, a 30-day AI starter plan, and clear guidance on where AI helps and where it doesn't. Built by an AI engineering firm — not management consultants.
Inside
- 28 ready-made, market-tested prompts: marketing, ops, finance, hiring, and the strategic decisions
- The Owner's Strategic Toolkit: Pre-Mortem, Devil's Advocate, Steel-Man, and Stakeholder Scan — for the decisions that sit on your desk alone
- The AI Opportunity Matrix applied to your business — where AI helps, where it doesn't
- The AI Safety Checklist and a one-page AI Policy template, ready to adopt this week
- A 30-day plan with three concrete starting points you can act on Monday morning
Who this is for
Owner-operators and managing directors of established small-to-medium businesses (1–100 employees, sweet spot 2–50). They already run a business — they are not pre-revenue founders (that is T1-09) and they are not corporate executives (that is T4-03/T2-68). They might own a dental practice, a trades company, a retail shop, a logistics firm, a professional services firm, or a restaurant group. They make most of the decisions. They wear multiple hats: sales, operations, finance, people management. They are time-poor and highly practical.
Also for:General managers running a P&L within a larger organisation (the "business-within-a-business" mindset); family business successors taking over operations; franchisees; senior managers in small businesses who function as de-facto co-owners.
You’ll be able to
- Audit their business operations for the highest-impact AI opportunities using the AI Opportunity Matrix
- Apply the PRISM Prompting Framework to at least 5 core business tasks (marketing, operations, finance, customer service, hiring)
- Evaluate AI tools for fitness-for-purpose and cost-effectiveness in a small business context
- Protect customer and business data using the AI Safety Checklist
- Use AI as a structured strategic thinking partner on current business decisions (pricing, hiring, capacity, competitive positioning) by applying the Owner's Strategic Toolkit — Pre-Mortem, Devil's Advocate, Steel-Man, and Stakeholder Scan
- Build and execute a 30-day AI adoption plan tailored to their business
What’s inside
- Diagnostic
- How AI-Ready Is Your Business?
- Chapter 1
- AI in Business Right Now
- Chapter 2
- AI Basics for Business People
- Chapter 3
- How to Prompt AI
- Chapter 4
- AI as Your Strategic Thought Partner
- Chapter 5
- AI for Marketing and Customers
- Chapter 6
- AI for Operations and Admin
- Chapter 7
- AI for Finance and Growth
- Chapter 8
- AI for Hiring and People
- Chapter 9
- AI Safety, Data and Policy
- Chapter 10
- Your 30-Day Business AI Plan
- Back matter
- Skill Summary · Recommended Next Reads · Glossary · Tool Reference
What can AI do for business owners?
AI can help with the marketing, operations, finance and hiring in the business you run. The decisions that sit on your desk alone stay yours, and AI can test them from every side first.
AI+ Business Owners gives you ready-made prompts for that work, the Owner's Strategic Toolkit for big calls and the AI Opportunity Matrix to show where AI helps your business.
Built by an AI engineering firm — for the owner whose sole decisions become the business.
