 Small Business 2026: Automation Is No Longer a Luxury, but a Necessity While some entrepreneurs continue to drown in paperwork, others have already delegated routine tasks to AI agents. And the gap between them is growing every month. What can actually be automated right now: • Document management — contracts, invoices, acts. The AI agent fills in templates, checks details, and sends them to the counterparty. Savings — up to 15 hours per week. • Customer support — an AI-based chatbot answers 80% of typical questions, while complex cases are forwarded to a human with full dialogue context. • Accounting and analytics — the neural network collects data from all services (CRM, cash register, warehouse) and provides a dashboard in Russian: "yesterday sales dropped for item X, reason Y." The main insight of 2026: AI agents have ceased to be a toy for giants. The implementation cost for a small company starts from 0 rubles (tokens to start), and it pays off in 2–3 weeks by freeing up employee time. A question for you, entrepreneurs: which process in your business takes the most time and which would you like to automate first? Want to try? ASI Biont gives 1500 tokens to start for new users — enough to test automation on real tasks.