# OpenAI — Helping small businesses put AI to work

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-30T10:00:00+00:00
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/helping-small-businesses-put-ai-to-work
- Record: https://forck.live/items/15414-helping-small-businesses-put-ai-to-work
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI is partnering with America's SBDC to train around 150 small business advisors and host hands-on workshops, aiming to reach at least 1,000 small businesses. A new report finds that in a week in September 2026, about 4 million small-firm employees used OpenAI's tools, and agentic output tokens for small businesses rose from one-third to two-thirds of all output tokens between April and August 2026.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/helping-small-businesses-put-ai-to-work:

> The report finds that in just one recent week, from September 9-15, around 4 million small-firm employees worldwide used OpenAI’s tools.

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