{"slug": "corporate-america-may-be-using-ai-to-cut-jobs-but-small-businesses-are-using-it", "title": "Corporate America may be using AI to cut jobs, but small businesses are using it to keep them", "summary": "Small businesses are using AI to augment workers rather than replace them, according to a report by The Guardian. A window and door company owner invested $10,000 in an AI application that listens to sales conversations and automatically generates quotes, reducing paperwork and errors while allowing salespeople to serve more customers.", "body_md": "# Corporate America may be using AI to cut jobs, but small businesses are using it to keep them\n\nBy Gene MarksSource:\n\n[The Guardian Technology](https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology)Reports of wide-scale replacement of workers by AI are overblown. Small businesses use it to help workers\n\nI recently met the owner of a company that sells windows and doors. He told me he invested about $10,000 in an [AI](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai) application that is used by his salespeople in his showroom. The application listens to the conversations between the salesperson and the prospective customer and then automatically creates a quote for the salesperson to review and send.\n\n“It allows my salespeople to talk to more customers and spend less time doing paperwork,” he said. “And it cuts down on errors.”\n\n[Continue reading...](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/26/small-businesses-ai)\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/corporate-america-may-be-using-ai-to-cut-jobs-but-small-businesses-are-using-it", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/corporate-america-may-be-using-ai-to-cut-jobs-but-small-busi-k6em", "published_at": "2026-07-26 12:00:11+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-26 13:27:39.640359+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["The Guardian"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/corporate-america-may-be-using-ai-to-cut-jobs-but-small-businesses-are-using-it", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/corporate-america-may-be-using-ai-to-cut-jobs-but-small-businesses-are-using-it.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/corporate-america-may-be-using-ai-to-cut-jobs-but-small-businesses-are-using-it.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/corporate-america-may-be-using-ai-to-cut-jobs-but-small-businesses-are-using-it.jsonld"}}