News Summary

• AI tools are fast becoming a small business leader’s valuable sidekick, according to our recent Peer Power research.
• For many founders and owners, AI is moving beyond a productivity tool - it is increasingly becoming a source of strategic guidance.
• While AI can provide an answer at pace, its response will lack the insight that can only come from lived experience.
• Peer connections provide more than a sounding board.
• They offer the grounded and honest input, informed by real-world experience and the hard-won lessons that come from building a business.