2025-11-20 Small Business Daily

Welcome to Silk Logic’s Small Business Daily Podcast — your quick-hit recap of the latest in AI, automation, and the future of business. I’m glad you’re here! Today, we’ll dive into how one AI startup is revolutionizing small business lending, why an AI-powered manufacturing marketplace just landed on a major “fastest growing” list, and how leaders in physical operations are learning to make work safer and more productive with automation. Let’s get started. First up: Imagine if your business loan could be approved in three minutes, instead of waiting days for paperwork to be processed. That’s the promise of Kaaj, a startup that just raised nearly four million dollars to bring AI-powered credit analysis to small business lending. Traditionally, banks avoid smaller loans because they take just as much time to underwrite as big ones, and that makes lending to small businesses unprofitable. Kaaj uses “agentic AI”—which basically means digital assistants working together—to organize financ