{"id":285668,"date":"2026-07-04T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/for-one-small-business-ai-was-key-to-a-quick-start-and-expansion\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T10:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:35:07","slug":"for-one-small-business-ai-was-key-to-a-quick-start-and-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/for-one-small-business-ai-was-key-to-a-quick-start-and-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"For one small business, AI was key to a quick start and expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/one-small-business-ai-was-key-quick-start-expansion-2026-07-04\/\">For one small business, AI was key to a quick start and expansion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/one-small-business-ai-was-key-quick-start-expansion-2026-07-04\/\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/one-small-business-ai-was-key-quick-start-expansion-2026-07-04\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-04 10:23:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.reuters.com\">www.reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul data-testid=\"Summary\" class=\"summary-module__summary__QjADA\">\n<li data-testid=\"Body\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf summary-module__point__UgXPz\">Here Now Health launched in January 2025 and now employs 16 people<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Body\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf summary-module__point__UgXPz\">Founder used an AI coach to develop pitch to investors<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Body\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf summary-module__point__UgXPz\">Fed wrestling over short, long-run implications of the technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WASHINGTON, July 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Here Now Health isn&#8217;t an AI-based company, but its quick path from an idea in founder Michelle Turner&#8217;s mind to an operating mental health platform for foster children relied deeply on the technology now restructuring the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n<p>Working from her Virginia Beach home, she used AI tools to school herself in startup culture, create a business plan and fine-tune a \u200bpresentation for early-stage investors. Funding began to flow, and the company, launched in January 2025, now has 16 employees and is certified in three states to provide Medicaid-funded mental health counseling for children entering the foster system, a gap \u200cin care she identified through her own experience as a foster parent.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"promo-box\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__promo-box__hVl8h\"> Sign up  here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A mom of six kids who&#8217;s a first-time founder, who&#8217;s a sole female founder, should not be able to raise (venture capital). I don&#8217;t have an MBA. I don&#8217;t have these things to back me up,&#8221; Turner said. Developing her funding pitch with AI guidance was &#8220;like going to a master&#8217;s level class every day from the robot. It was my startup advisor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rapid emergence and spread of AI has become a defining feature of the U.S. economy, of prime interest to Federal Reserve officials trying to understand its potential to reshape productivity, growth, inflation and labor demand. Among a broad review of the \u200bFed launched by new Chairman Kevin Warsh, one panel will look solely at AI and its implications for productivity, a force that can allow the economy to grow faster with less inflation, but also means fewer workers are needed to create the same \u200boutput.<\/p>\n<p>Some Fed officials have already raised the possibility of an AI economy with structurally higher unemployment; other analysts have noted the steady dip in labor&#8217;s share of national income and questioned if&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/one-small-business-ai-was-key-quick-start-expansion-2026-07-04\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For one small business, AI was key to a quick start and expansion https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/one-small-business-ai-was-key-quick-start-expansion-2026-07-04\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":285669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resizer\/v2\/LINCGA7XWNKTNAUAEAAPRKDPJI.jpg?auth=04712bb8b642d603811276bc051baa3d5218c3decbb9d395c96ad70e99043368&height=1005&width=1920&quality=80&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-285668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285670,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285668\/revisions\/285670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}