Starter resources for AI in small business: official sources
Learn the rules from the people who set them. Every link below goes to an official body, regulator or professional association, and was checked on Oct 30, 2026.
Starter resources
- SBA: Business Guide
plan, launch, manage, grow - IRS: Small business and self-employed
tax resources - FTC: Data security for business
protecting data - SCORE mentoring
free mentors
Also useful across professions
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework: a free, widely used framework for managing AI risk
- Bot Tutorials guides: catching made-up answers, writing better prompts
Accuracy and ethics, every time
- Confidentiality: never paste client, patient, student, employee or customer personal data (PII/PHI) into a public bot. Use tools your organization has approved, with contract terms that cover data use, or remove identifiers first.
- Verify everything: bots can invent citations, case law, statistics, doses, code sections and quotes that look real. Check each one against the original source before you rely on it.
- Not professional advice: these tutorials teach you how to use AI tools. They are not legal, medical, tax, financial or engineering advice.
- A human professional is responsible: the licensed or accountable person reviews, decides and signs. The bot drafts; you own the result.
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