This May, the American Edge Project (AEP) celebrates National Small Business Month. Entrepreneurs across America are innovating with artificial intelligence (AI) to grow their small businesses, invest in their local communities and compete with much larger companies. AEP coalition member Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council reports that there are 36.8 million small businesses across the United States serving American communities every day, with 82 percent using at least one AI tool in their businesses.
We are proud to share some of their success stories in the following videos.
Cane Brew Sweet Tea in Mobile, Alabama, uses AI to grow its business and hire more Americans. The spot highlights the real-world benefits of AI innovation and illustrates why we can’t let China dominate this technology.
A homebuilder uses AI to modernize home construction and help more families realize the dream of home ownership. The ad highlights the real-world benefits of AI innovation and illustrates the importance of maintaining U.S. leadership in technological development.
Cutting Edge features a family-owned business that’s worked with NASA and the U.S. military for decades and is now using AI to enhance their services. It highlights the importance of open- and closed-source AI to our economic strength, tech leadership and national security.
Cindy is a small business owner and photographer who relies on American innovation and AI to operate more efficiently and compete in a rapidly evolving marketplace. This ad emphasizes the key role of open-source AI solutions in helping entrepreneurs thrive.
Vineburg features the personal testimony of a U.S. Army veteran who founded Vineburg Machining, a successful manufacturing company now employing 40 people, and explains how American technology and AI are driving business growth.
Smarter shows how American tech and AI empower small businesses to grow. This spot features a restaurateur with 17 years of experience who describes how digital tools are transforming their business, from customer acquisition to delivery services.
Edward features a small coffee company deploying cutting-edge technology to connect with minority roasters and reach new customers. It warns that anti-innovation policies could harm local businesses and strengthen foreign competitors, particularly China.
Sarah is a tech industry veteran and founder of a software company. This ad highlights U.S. innovation and AI’s positive impact on small businesses. It also addresses the challenges posed by foreign rivals such as China, urging leaders to protect our competitive edge.
Game Changer features the owner of a growing beverage company who credits AI and digital tools with helping her run her business more efficiently and effectively. The ad emphasizes the importance of protecting America’s competitive edge to support small businesses.
Jay is a farmer who explains how digital tools and technology are now as essential to farming operations as tractors and combines. Jay warns how shortsighted anti-innovation policies could stifle these technologies and empower our foreign adversaries to surpass us in the global technology race.
From Mobile to the family farm, these entrepreneurs prove that AI is the great equalizer powering Main Street businesses in every corner of America. We can’t let shortsighted policies handcuff their innovation and hand our authoritarian adversaries the win. It matters which country builds the future – and these small business owners are making sure America stays in the lead.