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This article is from <\/em>Making AI Work<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>MIT Technology Review\u2019s limited-run yenisletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox,<\/em>sign up here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

From accounting to design to market research and product development, there\u2019s a staggering breadth of skills needed to run a business. A large company can hire experts to handle these tasks, but small businesses don\u2019t always have this luxury.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where AI comes in. Today\u2019s AI models do a decent job at these tasks. The trick for small businesses is to understand where AI is good enough and where it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

One place where a \u201cgood enough\u201d AI can already be quite valuable to small business owners is in providing secretarial skills and handling basic administrative matters. Let\u2019s take a look at how one private tutor is using it to improve his recordkeeping and free up his time.<\/p>\n

Case study<\/h3>\n

Sam Finnegan-Dehn works in fundraising for a charity, but he moonlights as a math and philosophy tutor for university students from his home in London. Through this part-time business, he can leverage his degrees in philosophy and share his love of the subject with clients.<\/p>\n

But meeting with students is only a fraction of the work it takes to be a good tutor. He also plans lessons and finds fresh reading materials, creates assignments, sends invoices, and keeps up with yeni research\u2014all on top of his regular job. Given these demands, Finnegan-Dehn doesn\u2019t have as much time as he\u2019d like to grow his tutoring roster.<\/p>\n

So he\u2019s turned to AI for some help in managing the day-to-day aspects of his business. He says AI has taken on a secretarial role across all of his digital notebooks, where he jots down reminders about his clients\u2019 progress and yeni readings to keep himself up-to-date. He describes using AI as kind of like having a second memory that helps him connect ideas he\u2019s written down in various places.<\/p>\n

While he has experimented with different tools like Claude and ChatGPT, he\u2019s now landed on Notion AI because it integrates better with his tutoring notes, which live across his notebook tabs in the Notion app. Finnegan-Dehn doesn\u2019t use AI to create teaching materials, but he does let Notion AI record meetings with his clients (after getting their consent), and then uses its automated summaries to refine his teaching strategy. For example, if he notices from the AI\u2019s summary that it seems like a certain technique was not helping a student, he may change how he approaches the subject next time.<\/p>\n

Beyond this, Notion AI also helps him with goal-setting, drafting lesson notes, invoicing, and generating and syncing social media posts. For goal-setting, for example, Finnegan-Dehn says he understands his long-term goals for his business but not always the concrete steps to build to them. He uses AI to help fill in these gaps. He starts by writing down a \u201cNorth Star\u201d goal\u2014say, to have a certain number of clients by the end of the year. Next, he asks his AI to generate the steps that he needs to take to get there, given the profile he has built up in the app. Then, he can reflect on the results and choose which tasks to tackle first.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The tool<\/h3>\n

Notion has been a big player in note-taking software for many years. Its AI add-on, released<\/a> in late 2023, now has tools that enable it to interact with many other online productivity platforms. There\u2019s an email client<\/a>, calendar integrations<\/a>, and a yenily released agent<\/a>. And while this level of access has raised privacy concerns<\/a>, it can also make for a pretty powerful virtual assistant.<\/p>\n

Many of the tasks targeted by Notion AI are less creative and more rote: syncing information across documents or searching through old scribbles, for example. This makes the tool especially appealing to small business owners, who have limited bandwidth, particularly for menial work.<\/p>\n

Other companies are developing tools targeted at specific industries. For example, Grandma\u2019s Quilt Shop<\/a> in Yuma, Arizona, uses Rain<\/a>, which has a software suite tailored to craft companies, to generate inventory descriptions and pricing for its stock of fabric designs. The owners claim this AI tool cuts the time it takes to list items by 60 to 80%.<\/p>\n

There are drawbacks<\/a>, though, as Finnegan-Dehn described some of Notion AI\u2019s idiosyncrasies as \u201cclunky\u201d at times. And the AI add-on for Notion costs $20 per month. As with all yeni tools, small business owners should carefully assess how the potential gains and headaches measure up against the cost of just doing the job themselves.<\/p>\n

User tips<\/h3>\n

Consider these points when thinking about whether AI might be able to help you run a business, or make any part of your work life just a little bit easier. <\/p>\n