AI for Small Business Quiz: Is Your Business Keeping Up?

A small e-commerce store has 200 products but no descriptions written yet. What is the most efficient AI-assisted workflow?

Write one product description manually and ask AI to copy it for all other products Use AI to write descriptions but publish them without any human review Create a template prompt with product name, category, key features, and target customer, then batch-process all 200 products through an AI writing tool Hire a copywriter first since AI cannot write e-commerce product descriptions

A small home services company typically responds to web inquiry forms within 24 hours. Competitors respond within 4 hours. How can AI most directly improve their competitiveness here?

Respond to all inquiries once per day at a consistent time Remove the web inquiry form and replace it with a phone number Hire an additional customer service representative Implement an AI tool that sends an automated, personalized acknowledgment and basic qualification response within minutes of form submission

Which of these projects is BEST suited to vibe coding by a non-programmer?

A healthcare patient portal handling protected health information A payment processing system for an e-commerce store A high-traffic social network handling millions of concurrent users A personal expense tracker web app used only by the creator

A specialty wine shop wants to use AI to improve efficiency. What use case protects their brand identity while benefiting from AI?

Use AI to generate all wine recommendations based on customer questionnaires Use AI for inventory management, purchasing analysis, and customer communication drafts — while preserving human-led wine recommendations as the brand's distinctive experience Replace the sommelier with an AI chatbot for cost savings Use AI to copy competitor wine descriptions and pricing strategies

A software developer's team of 5 now uses AI coding tools that make each developer 50% more productive. What is the likely business implication?

No change — productivity gains in software development are always reallocated to additional features The company must immediately replace all 5 developers with AI tools The same team can now deliver the work that previously required 7–8 developers, changing hiring math for similar future projects The team will need to hire 5 more developers to manage the additional AI output