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Most businesses adopt AI tools. Few build the workflow that makes them hold up.

TechEd Analyst gives small businesses the playbooks, templates, and AI-assisted tools to operationalize AI, protect their data, and document the processes that make their operation repeatable — without hiring a consultant for every decision.

The problem

Small businesses hit the same four walls. Usually in the same order.

You've adopted the AI tools. You haven't built the workflow underneath them.

Every business adopting AI does the same thing: they install the tool, show the team how it works, and move on. Six months later, half the team uses it differently, nobody agreed on what data goes in, and there's no policy for what happens when the output is wrong. The tool is fine. The operation around it isn't.

Your data handling practices are a liability you probably haven't priced.

Most small businesses hold more personal data than they realize — customer contacts, payment histories, vendor agreements. State privacy laws are lowering their thresholds. Connecticut's law just dropped from 100,000 to 35,000 residents, and AI-related obligations arrived with it. If you don't know what you hold, where it lives, and who can touch it, you don't know your exposure.

Your processes are in someone's head — and that person might leave.

The workflows that run your business — onboarding a client, closing a project, handling a customer complaint — live in the memory of the people who do them. When those people leave, the process leaves with them. A documented SOP isn't bureaucracy. It's the difference between a repeatable operation and one that has to be rebuilt every time someone walks out the door.

You're expected to have an AI policy. Nobody gave you a template.

Employees are using AI tools at work whether or not you have a policy. Some of that is fine. Some of it — pasting client data into an LLM, using AI output without a human review step, storing generated content without provenance — isn't. An AI usage policy doesn't need to be long. It needs to exist, be specific, and be enforced.

What you'll find here

Tested guidance across four areas — Workflow Automation, Data Analytics, Data Privacy, AI Governance. Three places to start.

Run the free AI & Workflow Readiness Scan

A six-question diagnostic that produces a specific readout: the highest-leverage move in your operation, the biggest risk in how you work now, and which pillar to start with. Anonymous, takes five minutes, no signup. You'll see the result immediately.

Generate a customizable starting draft

The Template Generator builds a customizable starting draft based on your inputs: a Workflow SOP, AI Usage Policy, Data Privacy Checklist, or Reporting & KPI Plan. 20 AI credits per run, included with Pro. Every output opens with a notice that it is a starting point — not a finished document.

Buy the one playbook you need

Individual playbooks and templates from $27–$97. AI Usage Policy Template, Workflow Starter Playbook, Data Inventory Playbook, AI Governance Starter Pack. No subscription required — buy what you need today.

About the founder

I'm Dr. Tennyson Johnson. I've spent 20 years building and running technology systems — software development, systems design, data infrastructure, and the agentic AI workflows that are now reshaping how small businesses operate.

I built TechEd Analyst because I kept watching the same thing happen: capable businesses adopting AI and data tools with no workflow, no governance, and no documented process underneath them. The tools work. The operation around the tools is where it falls apart. Everything here is something I've actually built and run — not theory, not repackaged vendor marketing.

Where to start

Five minutes. Anonymous. You'll see the readout immediately.

Individual templates from $27. Pro subscription at $19/month includes everything.

Frequently asked questions

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