Most companies already pay for AI tools. Few use them for real work. The models can read drawings, quotes and order lines. People still retype them by hand. Product data lives in five systems and three spreadsheets. A quote takes a day. The customer wanted it in an hour. Month-end reporting still means copying numbers between systems. The pilot worked. Nobody rolled it out. Everyone has tried a chatbot. Few have connected one to the ERP. The same question reaches support every week. Some items are overstocked. Others are out. Small companies don't have an AI team. They have a busy CEO. The tools are ready. The processes are not.