AEO Webinar From Intake To Insight

How can AI help business advisors understand entrepreneurs more fully, without weakening the relationships that make advising work? In this session of AEO's Blueprint for Innovation webinar series, we share lessons from testing an AI-enabled version of AEO's Business Health Assessment with five business support practitioners. We also preview resources to help organizations put those lessons into practice. Practitioners then discuss how AI is changing their work with entrepreneurs, what responsible use takes, and where they see opportunities and risks. Speakers: Natalie Madeira Cofield, AEO Jordan Medina, PayPal Lori Diane Smith, AEO Lashawna Manigault, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation Brandon McDonald, Northern Maine Development Commission Melissa Nong, The Acceleration Project Kevin Wilson, St. Louis Small Business Empowerment Center This work was made possible with support from PayPal. Resources: Join AEO's AI Coalition for Main Street Businesses: https://forms.gle/x78wknCVhUzfu82L8 Insight Brief – Getting AI Right in Business Advising: Practical lessons from our practitioner-led experiment. https://aeoworks.org/wp-content/uploads/20... Responsible AI Advising Toolkit: Practical guidance, safeguards, and resources that organizations can adapt to their own advising practices. https://aeoworks.org/wp-content/uploads/20... Learn more about AEO at https://aeoworks.org