Picture your weekly Monday management meeting. The numbers exist, buried in a spreadsheet with 11 tabs that only one person knows how to navigate. So someone screenshots a few cells into WhatsApp, someone else reads totals off a printout, and the first twenty minutes go to establishing what the numbers are instead of why they moved.

What that meeting needs is a dashboard: one screen with the headline figures on top, a revenue trend, the top products, a breakdown by location — and filters, so when somebody asks “what does that look like for May, just for the Montego Bay store?” the answer is a click, not a follow-up email.

Until recently, getting one meant weeks of work in specialist software, plus an analyst to build it and licence fees to keep it alive. That is why most small businesses never got one. Artificial intelligence has now collapsed that whole project into a single instruction.