2025-11-27 Small Business Daily

Silk Logic’s Small Business Daily Podcast – November 26, 2025 Welcome to Silk Logic’s Small Business Daily! I’m your host, and today’s top story: PayPal and Perplexity team up to make instant AI shopping a reality. We’ll tell you how this could change online retail for good. Plus, Excel users learn tough lessons on AI, the best tools for upskilling your team, and why software as we know it might soon disappear. Let’s break it down! Story One: AI Shopping Is Now Just a Chat Away Imagine researching a product, clicking one button, and owning it—without ever leaving your chat window. That’s now possible for U.S. shoppers thanks to a partnership between PayPal and the AI answer engine Perplexity. Why does this matter? For small businesses, converting web visitors into buyers is the holy grail—and friction often kills sales. Now, merchants using PayPal can sync their catalogs instantly to Perplexity’s AI-powered search. Customers get PayPal’s trusted checkout, and merchants gain access to