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AI agents for small businesses, without the guesswork

What agents can take off your plate, what a careless rollout costs, and how to keep a person in charge of every risky step. Outside numbers link to their sources; our own measurements say so.

Diagram: an AI agent at the centre of rings of permission: can read, can draft, needs a person to approve, never allowed
SecurityWhy a secure AI agent rollout matters even more for a small businessSmall firms are already the easier target. An agent that reads email and the web, and can act, adds a new way in. A plain-language rollout plan based on OWASP, NCSC and CISA guidance. · 8 min read
Illustration: an AI agent's actions pass through a gate; routine work passes, outward sends are held for a person, secret files are refused
Our testsWe put an open-source super agent behind a gate. Here is what changed.DeepSeek Harness and its Super Agent can do real work, and on their own they sent every message we asked about. Behind a gate, outward calls that ran dropped from 164 to 0 while normal tasks still finished. What we measured, and what we have not proven yet. · 9 min read
Illustration: a cost meter climbing into the red as an agent loops on retries, stopped by a budget cap
Costs and failuresWhat a careless AI agent rollout really costsA chatbot that cost an airline a tribunal case, a dealership bot that agreed to a $1 car, an agent that deleted a live database. Where the money, the tokens and the project go when an agent is set up badly. · 8 min read
Illustration: a week of small-business chores flows into an AI agent, which hands back drafts for the owner to approve
Agents for small businessWhat an AI agent can, and cannot yet, do for a small businessA coffee roaster, a field experiment with 640 entrepreneurs, and two very different adoption numbers. What the evidence says about where agents help, and where they hurt. · 7 min read

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