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Claude for Small Business

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Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by hommelix »

Barbing wrote: post #49
hommelix wrote: post #24

By coincidence, I've looked yesterday a small documentary [1] about the people tagging all those invoices to train theses models. For 120 €/month they are reading about 1000 to 4000 invoices per day and check and tag them for AI training. [1] https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/126831-000-A/arte-reportage/

Were they sore about it? Or don’t tell me, if it’s well worth the 24min watch

Oh no! The ones working at 120€/month are the happy few. This is above mid range income in Madagascar. I just wanted to point out that this is not all automated running on GPUs. There are people involved, more than I thought before viewing this video.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by hommelix »

cantalopes wrote: post #55
hommelix wrote: post #24

By coincidence, I've looked yesterday a small documentary [1] about the people tagging all those invoices to train theses models. For 120 €/month they are reading about 1000 to 4000 invoices per day and check and tag them for AI training. [1] https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/126831-000-A/arte-reportage/

Reminds me of openai paying Kenyans $2/hr to flag violent and toxic stuff for them and a bunch of people ending up with ptsd

In that video over Madagascar, the lowest tier jobs on AI tagging is at 1 €/3h of tagging, beating the Kenyan price.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by grumbelbart »

tim-projects wrote: post #97

> Claude helps take the late-night work off their plates. This is dangerous. Relying on so much of your business on a third party. We've seen this many times before where businesses get destroyed because something gets broken somewhere that they have outsourced and have no control over. In my view this service should not be used, unless there is a local llm or clear manual alternative. Then the question begs - Why us…

Of course, should it be as cost efficient as claimed and if you don't use it but everybody else does, you might be pushed out of the market.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by black3r »

jdlshore wrote: post #15
ClassicPaterson wrote: post #3

Kinda weird to assume that a "small" business would have $16.9m cash on hand...

Small businesses are bigger than you think they are. A company with $100 million revenue per year could still be a small business. You might be assuming small businesses have less than ten people. That’s a category of small business called a “micro-business” or microenterprise, depending on funding model.

Different countries use different definitions of what "small business" or "micro business" is. And people usually use their own local expectations they're used to. I'm not from the US and a company with 100 million revenue is far from a small business to me.

In EU where I'm from the micro/small/medium business sizes are tied to both employee count AND revenue. Micro is below 10 employees and below 2 million € revenue, Small is below 50 employees and below 10 million € revenue, Medium is below 250 employees and 50 million € revenue.

So if you had 100 million revenue you would be a large business even if you had less than ten people.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by nimchimpsky »

black3r wrote: post #116
jdlshore wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Small businesses are bigger than you think they are. A company with $100 million revenue per year could still be a small business. You might be assuming small businesses have less than ten people. That’s a category of small business called a “micro-business” or microenterprise, depending on funding model.

Different countries use different definitions of what "small business" or "micro business" is. And people usually use their own local expectations they're used to. I'm not from the US and a company with 100 million revenue is far from a small business to me. In EU where I'm from the micro/small/medium business sizes are tied to both employee count AND revenue. Micro is below 10 employees and below 2 million € revenue…

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Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by jrickert »

SoftTalker wrote: post #4

Waiting to hear the stories of things Claude did running amok in Quickbooks.

I’ve given it access to my small business books for the last few months (attended sessions only) and so far it’s helped me clean up countless errors made by humans, at the expense of a small handful of duplicated transactions that got shaken out pretty quickly.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by Tenoke »

As someone working in a small business/startup, who finally got the team Claude Team Premium, I don't really get what might I benefit extra from by enabling this. I can find whatever workflows and tell it to integrate them anyway, why would I bother with this?

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by eecc »

devsda wrote: post #93
CSMastermind wrote: post #53

I'm increasingly convinced that there's a killer app waiting for whoever can come up with a UI that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user. Onboarding my non-software engineer teammates to it has super-charged them and essentially given them all their own personal developer that can automate tasks for them. Managing codebases, etc. is still a hassle though. 90% of the power of Excel was that it was…

> Onboarding my non-software engineer teammates to it has super-charged them and essentially given them all their own personal developer that can automate tasks for them. This is probably fine as long as the code is acting on local resources. The moment you have vibe coded software interacting with shared state or database the risk increases exponentially and all it takes to have a bad day is a poorly worded prompt f…

> Claude, fix the bug. Make no mistakes.

/s

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