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58% -- ai small business adoption for small businesses (2025)
In late 2025, 58% of small businesses had used at least one AI tool in the preceding 12 months.
- Only 19% described themselves as regular, integrated users where AI was embedded in core workflows; 39% were dabblers using AI occasionally for one-off tasks
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2025
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45
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95
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US Chamber of Commerce
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https://www.uschamber.com/report/ai-adoption-among-small-businesses ↗
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Generative AI Business Statistics 2026: The Numbers That Change How You Work - Lilach Bullock | AI Implementation Consultant
The short version: Generative AI adoption in business has moved from “we’re experimenting” to “we depend on this now” faster than almost any enterprise technology in history. The headline numbers are dramatic, but the more useful story is in the granular data about who is winning, who is stalling, a…
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small businesses: 58% ai small business adoption. Source: US Chamber of Commerce (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/us-chamber-of-commerce-ai-small-business
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