Year: 2026

When small business owners think about building enterprise value, they typically focus on the factors that have always driven valuation: revenue growth, profit margins, client concentration, key employee dependencies, and the transferability of what makes the business work. These are the right factors to focus on. They are also no longer the complete list. A […]

AI governance conversations in small business contexts often fail in one of two directions. The first failure is dismissal: the business owner hears “governance program” and imagines enterprise-scale compliance infrastructure that bears no resemblance to what a ten-person professional services firm actually needs, concludes the requirement doesn’t apply to their situation, and does nothing. The […]