2025-10-31 Small Business Daily

Welcome to Silk Logic’s Small Business Daily Podcast—your morning jumpstart for the world of AI, automation, and tech news that drives your business forward. I’m glad you’re here! Today, we’ll dig into a real-life story about an AI agent that paid for itself in just thirty days. Plus, we’ll talk about fresh worries over new state AI rules that could hit your bottom line, and we’ll wrap up with a look at record-breaking data breaches that put small businesses at risk. Stick around to hear how these trends will impact your business and what you can do now to stay ahead. Let’s kick off with our lead story: the AI agent that might just become your company’s new MVP. Picture this: You hire an AI agent for your business and in one month, it covers its entire cost. Sounds too good to be true? Not for Kayak Pools Midwest and Mr. Quick Home Services. Both companies—each with fewer than fifty employees—recently rolled out AI agents to automate tasks like customer callbacks and appointment book