AI for Small Business Owners With Employees: The S.C.A.L.E. Method for Building a Company That Runs on AI — Systems, Team Adoption, and 200+ Prompts (Not a Beginner's Guide) - Couverture souple

Chu, George

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ISBN 13 : 9798189851711

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Your team is not using AI the way you are. That is the whole problem.

You have used these tools. They work. They give you back the better part of a day every week — and they have changed almost nothing about how your company actually runs.

That is not a training gap, and it is not a budget problem. The median small business spends about $30 a month on AI.

Here are the numbers that explain it. Managers get 7.2 hours a week back from AI. Everyone else gets 3.4. Seventy-six percent of small businesses use AI — and fourteen percent have it embedded in how the work actually gets done.

Sixty-two points of daylight. Closing that gap is what this book is for.

A method, not a tour of the tools

S.C.A.L.E. is five steps you can run in ninety days.

• SELECT — Score every repeated process on frequency, judgment, cost of error, and whether one named person owns it. Take three. Start with the boring one.
• CODIFY — Sit with the person who does the work and fill six boxes. The decisions box is the whole game. You cannot automate what you cannot describe.
• ASSIGN — Take the steps apart individually. Human only, AI drafts and a human approves, or AI runs and a human audits. Every AI step gets one named owner.
• LAUNCH — Decide where the saved time goes before you free it, and say so out loud. Predict the first bad week. Give it to the pragmatic skeptic, not the enthusiast.
• EVALUATE — Four numbers: before, after, rework, error rate. Roughly forty percent of AI's time savings are eaten by rework nobody measures. On the date you set, say keep, fix, or kill.

What is inside

• 17 chapters built around one working method
• 200+ prompts placed in the chapter where you would actually reach for them — sales, marketing, support, operations, finance, hiring — with a full index at the back
• Four fill-in templates: the Six-Box Description, the Assignment Matrix, the 30-60-90 Rollout Calendar, and a one-page AI use policy
• A chapter on what your team actually thinks, and the one fear you should stop trying to talk them out of
• A thirty-day plan that costs you six hours and no money
• Every statistic sourced and named. No invented percentages.

Who this is for

Owners of businesses with roughly 5 to 50 employees. Past survival. No operations director. Already convinced AI works — and quietly aware that so far it has only worked for you.

Who this is not for

Beginners and solo operators. This book assumes you already know what these tools can do, and skips the tour entirely.

George Chu holds a Master of Engineering in Software Engineering from Peking University and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Chapter 1 is three numbers long. Start there.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798189851711
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 143
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible