AI Adoption Q&A
AI Adoption Guide for Small Businesses
This page lists our Q&A articles on bringing AI into a small business, grouped by topic. Each topic ends with a link to the matching service page, where the scope and prices are listed. New Q&A articles are added here as soon as they are published.
Costs and pricing
How to think about the upfront and monthly cost of AI, what a monthly fee covers, and what to check before signing with an outside vendor. Our own prices are listed on the pricing page.
- How much does AI cost a small business?
Costs fall into the monthly service fee, AI provider usage fees and internal staff time. This article sets out our published prices, how to estimate usage fees and how to set a cap.
Service for this topic: Pricing
Data leaks and internal rules
How company data is handled when you give it to AI, writing internal rules for generative AI, cautions for business use of ChatGPT, copyright, and website vulnerabilities.
- Will AI leak our internal documents?
Whether data leaks depends on the contract, log handling and what you hand over. This article covers training use, logs, personal data and how we handle originals.
Service for this topic: AI data protection
Phone and chat reception
AI phone reception and website chat: what they cost, whether you can keep your current number, and how calls are handed over to staff.
Q&A articles on this topic will be published here.
Service for this topic: AI phone and chat reception
Websites and multilingual pages
The cost of Chinese and English pages, whether an auto-translation plugin is enough, the settings that get multilingual pages shown correctly in Google, and getting your site cited by AI search.
Q&A articles on this topic will be published here.
Service for this topic: Website production
Quotes and office work
How far quotes, invoices, answering staff questions from internal manuals, and spreadsheet-based work can be handed to AI and software.
Q&A articles on this topic will be published here.
Service for this topic: AI office assistant
E-commerce and inventory
Managing stock across online shops, listing products on more than one marketplace, cautions for AI-written product copy and images, and starting cross-border e-commerce.
Q&A articles on this topic will be published here.
Service for this topic: E-commerce and social media
Overseas sales
Finding overseas buyers, checking that a new overseas partner is a real company, trade terms such as FOB and CIF on quotes, and using AI translation with overseas customers.
Q&A articles on this topic will be published here.
Service for this topic: Overseas sales
Subsidies
Public subsidy programs related to AI adoption, such as which tools Japan's Digitalization and AI Adoption Subsidy covers.
Q&A articles on this topic will be published here.
Service for this topic: Pricing