Companies are no longer using AI as an experiment, they are now at a point where they view AI spending as a serious financial risk. Uber burned through its entire 2026 budget for AI coding tools in four months, and the company’s chief operating officer said the costs are getting harder to justify.
But enterprise budgets contain “cushion” that no small business has. If the AI costs for small businesses were treated similarly to those for Uber’s (a large company), they would create payroll pressures for a 12-employee firm. Here’s how small businesses can future-proof their AI spending.
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