by Doug Patten | 2026-02-01 | overview, SMBs
Across North America, the startup and small business landscape is entering a period of financial reckoning. Even as demand stabilizes in many sectors, early-stage companies are feeling the weight of tighter funding conditions, rising operational costs, and visibly...
by Doug Patten | 2025-12-28 | HR, overview, SMBs, Uncategorized
As 2025 draws to a close, the year stands out not as just another incremental step in artificial intelligence evolution but as a genuine watershed moment – particularly for small and mid-sized businesses that historically lacked the resources, technical...
by Doug Patten | 2025-11-16 | HR, overview, SMBs
For small businesses and nonprofits alike, operational efficiency represents far more than an abstract productivity metric, it’s the fundamental difference between sustainable growth and slow organizational decline. Lean budgets, minimal staffing, and constantly...
by Doug Patten | 2025-11-02 | Compliance, HR, overview, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition, Training
For years, artificial intelligence has promised to revolutionize workplace productivity, but for most small and mid-sized businesses, that revolution felt perpetually out of reach. Enterprise-grade AI tools carried enterprise-grade price tags. System integrations...
by Doug Patten | 2025-10-07 | Compliance, HR, overview, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
AI in the workplace has evolved from a futuristic concept to an everyday operational reality. But for small and medium-sized business leaders evaluating whether to adopt AI assistants, two fundamental questions still dominate the conversation: Can AI be trusted to...
by Doug Patten | 2025-07-27 | Generative AI, HR, overview, SMBs
There’s never been a better — or more critical — time for SMBs to rethink how HR gets done. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Intelligent DataWorks (IDW) is officially live and actively onboarding pilot users to our AssistX HR platform: an AI-powered...
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