{"id":222712,"date":"2026-05-29T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/34000-small-businesses-said-ai-is-working-the-data-says-otherwise\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:50:09","slug":"34000-small-businesses-said-ai-is-working-the-data-says-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/34000-small-businesses-said-ai-is-working-the-data-says-otherwise\/","title":{"rendered":"34,000 Small Businesses Said AI Is Working. The Data Says Otherwise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/terdawn-deboe\/2026\/05\/29\/34000-small-businesses-said-ai-is-working-the-data-says-otherwise\/\">34,000 Small Businesses Said AI Is Working. The Data Says Otherwise<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/terdawn-deboe\/2026\/05\/29\/34000-small-businesses-said-ai-is-working-the-data-says-otherwise\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/terdawn-deboe\/2026\/05\/29\/34000-small-businesses-said-ai-is-working-the-data-says-otherwise\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 19:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com\">www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 2026 QuickBooks AI Impact Report revealed impressive data on the use of AI in small businesses, with a significant increase in AI usage and reported revenue and productivity gains.<\/li>\n<li>However, the report highlighted poor measurement practices, as most businesses lacked baseline data and specific metrics to measure AI success.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;Measurement Problem&#8221; in AI implementation includes missing baseline data for human performance and the inability to attribute changes in success to AI or external factors.<\/li>\n<li>Forrester predicts that 55% of AI projects will not meet their intended goals due to lack of clear definitions of success before launch.<\/li>\n<li>To effectively measure AI ROI, small businesses should track five key numbers: time saved, output quality, revenue per AI-supported activity, error rates, and tool cost versus value delivered.<\/li>\n<li>The adoption of AI without proper measurement can lead to businesses spending money on unproven tools and can hinder proper evaluation of AI\u2019s effectiveness.<\/li>\n<li>Small businesses can improve AI measurement by identifying and tracking specific metrics, determining changes launched at the same time, separating revenue from AI and other sources, and running a 30-day measurement to assess improvement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>34,000 Small Businesses Said AI Is Working. The Data Says Otherwise https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/terdawn-deboe\/2026\/05\/29\/34000-small-businesses-said-ai-is-working-the-data-says-otherwise\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-29&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/6a1a22a809d983793369bc09\/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222714,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222712\/revisions\/222714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}