AI Toolkit for SMBs

Free, practical tools to get started with AI.

Four resources, in order. Built for small and mid-sized business owners and leaders who want to find their first AI win without a 6-month consulting engagement.

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The Journey

Four steps from curious to acting.

The toolkit is structured as a path. Each tool builds on the previous one, but each also stands alone if you want to jump in.

Learn the basics

What AI can and cannot do. Which tools matter. The vocabulary your team needs.

Open the Cheat Sheet →

Assess readiness

Five questions to see where your business actually is on the AI adoption curve.

Take the Scorecard →

Find your first win

A guided workbook to identify, score, and prioritize practical AI use cases in your business.

Open the Workbook →

Roll it out

A practical playbook for piloting and scaling AI inside your team, with templates and pitfalls.

Contact us to get the Playbook →

Free Resources

The Toolkit.

Each tool is free, browser-based, and built to be useful in 15 minutes or less.

01 · Learn

AI Cheat Sheet

The essentials: what AI is, what it does well, what it does badly, which tools to know, and how to pick one. Organized by category, with a privacy warning section for sensitive data workflows.

5 min read Tool comparisons Glossary
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02 · Assess

AI Readiness Scorecard

Five questions, one score. See where your business sits on the AI adoption curve, what to do next based on your score band, and which toolkit resource fits where you are right now.

3 min Score-based routing No signup
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03 · Prioritize

AI Opportunity Workbook

Two paths. New to AI? We name the tool and walk you through your first test today. Already using AI? We help you find your biggest missed opportunity and map a clear path to acting on it.

10 to 15 min 2x2 matrix Branded PDF
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04 · Implement

AI Implementation Playbook

A deeper, advisory-grade resource for teams ready to make AI a real part of how they work. Pilot structure, success metrics, governance basics, rollout pitfalls, and the codify-and-expand sequence Cedral uses with clients. Available on request.

Advisory resource By request Includes intro call
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Why this toolkit exists.

Most AI guidance is written for engineering teams at large companies. The toolkit is for the rest of us, business owners and leaders at small and mid-sized companies who want to use AI to make their work better, without hiring an AI strategist. Cedral Advisory built it because we kept getting the same questions on calls. Now the answers are free, online, and yours.

For sensitive data workflows, we strongly recommend our own private AI workspace, Cedral AI in Vault mode. For everything else, we are tool-agnostic.