Lake Oswego, Oregon, April 16, 2026 — Ten Oregon small business owners across landscaping, engineering, insurance, and construction were honest about where they stood: muddling through AI with no governance, no KPIs, and no clear owner. Here's what the Lake Oswego GPS Summit session revealed about the framework that ends the muddle — and the internal leader who delivers it.

Atlanta, Georgia, April 08, 2026 — Six Atlanta small business leaders — from healthcare to commercial real estate to marketing communications — pushed back on fear-based AI framing and defined something more useful: a people-first AI strategy built around freeing capacity, not cutting headcount. Their survey data, and one particularly honest comment, reveal exactly what that looks like in practice.

Mesa, Arizona, March 26, 2026 — Nine Mesa CEOs — from steel fabrication to HVAC to biomedical manufacturing — gave the GPS Summit a 4.75/5 and a 100% recommendation rate. Their survey told a different story: 100% had no AI KPIs, 89% had no live pilots, and nearly half had no usable data. Here's the sequenced approach that turns that level of overwhelm into a clear starting point.