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How AI agents became the real franchise growth engine
The brands adding units fastest stopped treating AI as a chatbot and started running it as field infrastructure. Here is what that shift actually looks like.
Priya Shah7 min read
How AI agents and applied models are changing the way distributed businesses run.

The brands adding units fastest stopped treating AI as a chatbot and started running it as field infrastructure. Here is what that shift actually looks like.

Phone calls were the leakiest part of the funnel for most local businesses. That is changing fast, and the numbers are hard to argue with.

The hype says every owner is already automating. The ground truth is messier, and more encouraging, than the headlines suggest.