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An AI receptionist for a small business: what phone agents cost and where callers hang up

Voice agents that answer the phone for salons, clinics and trades cost from about $50 to a few hundred dollars a month. What Rosie, Goodcall, Smith.ai and a build-your-own agent charge for 400 calls, what they do well (hours, prices, bookings, messages) and badly (accents, angry callers, emergencies), the recording and disclosure rules, and a two-week trial an owner can run on missed calls first.

October 18, 2026

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Startups and investing

Revenue-based financing or a seed round: money for a small profitable SaaS

What revenue-based lenders such as Lighter Capital, Capchase, Founderpath and Stripe Capital offer in 2026, how to turn a 1.4x cap or a 10% fee into a real annual rate (17% to 34% in our example, depending on growth), the terms that matter more than the fee, when a seed round still makes sense, and what neither kind of money wants to see.

October 18, 2026

AI in business

One page on AI at work: the policy a ten-person company actually needs

Most of your staff already use AI at work, many on personal accounts. The six decisions a small company makes (which accounts, what never goes in, a person checks what leaves, code, what customers are told, new tools and mistakes), a one-page policy to copy, and how to roll it out in a thirty-minute meeting and review it twice a year.

October 17, 2026

SaaS

After the outage: what a small SaaS publishes, and when

Customers forgive an outage more easily than silence. The order of things a small SaaS publishes during and after one: the first status update within half an hour, updates on a timer, the customer email, the one-page write-up a week later and credits applied without a claim; with wording to copy and what Atlassian, Cloudflare and GitLab did in public.

October 17, 2026

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