Weekly bull and bear case deep-dives on AI topics relevant to Australian small business.
Your bookkeeper is not irreplaceable. In 2026, for most Australian sole traders and small businesses, they are optional. That is a sentence a lot of people in the accounting industry will not like, but it is true, and the tools that make it true have been live and improving for two years. AI bookkeeping tools…
Firing your bookkeeper because AI exists is the kind of decision that sounds clever in October and costs you money in March. The tools are real. The savings are real. The risk is real too, and most people making the switch do not find out about the risk until the ATO does. Use the AI…
Your VA is a good person doing a job that a piece of software now does better, faster, and for less than $100 a month. That’s uncomfortable to say. It’s also true. The conversation most Australian small business owners are avoiding right now is the one about their virtual assistant setup. Not because they don’t…
Everyone’s in a rush to fire their VA. Most of them will regret it within three months. The argument for replacing your virtual assistant with AI agents sounds clean in a blog post. The cost maths work on a spreadsheet. The demos are impressive. And then you actually make the switch, and you discover that…
Sunday Specials is a fortnightly debate series. Each edition, we take one question and argue both sides. This is the YES case. The gap says it all 43% of Australian small businesses have adopted AI in some form. Only 14% have integrated it into their core operations. That 29-point gap, between dabbling and changing how…
Sunday Specials is a fortnightly debate series. Each edition, we take one question and argue both sides. This is the NO case. Wrong diagnosis, wrong verdict The easy case is to point at the gap between the 43% of Australian small businesses experimenting with AI and the 14% that have integrated it into core operations,…
Australian small business owners are getting lazier, and AI is handing them the excuse. Not because they’re bad people. Because AI makes it easy to stop thinking. Thirty per cent of Australian small businesses now use AI for day-to-day tasks, but only 14 per cent have actually integrated it into their core operations, according to…
Australian small business owners aren’t getting lazier with AI, they’re getting smarter, and the numbers back it up. The “laziness” narrative mistakes early adoption for shallow ambition. Yes, most owners are still in the shallow end. But the ones who have waded further out are growing at nearly three times the rate of those who…
Large businesses are adopting AI at three times the rate of small ones. That’s not a prediction, it’s already in the data. The gap is open, it’s widening, and most small business owners are still being told the technology is levelling the playing field. It isn’t. The Numbers That Don’t Lie The Australian Bureau of…
Australian small businesses using AI are growing 2.8 times faster than those that aren’t. That’s not a projection. It’s already in MYOB’s revenue figures, drawn from hundreds of thousands of active business accounts. The tools exist, the gains are measurable, and the window to move is still wide open. The conversation about AI and small…