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Small Business Daily Podcast 11/17/2025
Today’s podcast episode was created from the following stories:
Intelligentic AI – Advanced Multi-Agent Framework
Intelligentic rolls out an enterprise-grade multi-agent orchestration platform with robust scalability, observability, and vendor-agnostic integrations. It supports protocols like MCP, X402, and AOP, plus backwards compatibility with frameworks such as LangChain, AutoGen, and CrewAI. For teams operationalizing AI agents at scale, the framework’s governance, lifecycle management, and API-first design aim to reduce risk and speed deployment.
Best Digital Marketing Agency for Media Marketing in Dwarka
Modulation Digital pitches a full-service, ROI-focused media marketing offering spanning social, content, paid ads, and brand management. Case studies highlight growth in traffic, conversions, and followers, backed by a data-driven approach and transparent reporting. For local businesses in Delhi NCR, the takeaway is clear: customize strategy, measure relentlessly, and scale what works.
Fractional CMO vs. Marketing Agency
This explainer draws a sharp line between strategy and execution: hire a Fractional CMO for leadership, prioritization, and GTM architecture; hire an agency when you know what to build and need hands-on execution. It offers a practical framework and cost ranges, plus a hybrid model where a Fractional CMO directs specialist agencies. Founders can avoid wasted spend by aligning the hire to the real constraint—strategic clarity or bandwidth.
Why Paid Reviews Are Not Worth Betting Your Business On… and How to Get Genuine Reviews
Paid or incentivized reviews carry serious risks: FTC enforcement, platform penalties, and long-term damage to credibility. The piece outlines compliant ways to earn authentic reviews—ask at natural moments, simplify the path, and avoid pressure or quid pro quo—and summarizes policy nuances across Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Yelp. Authenticity wins in search visibility and customer trust.
The Best Website-Reputation and URL-Safety Tools (How to Check Any Link in Minutes)
A compact workflow—start with VirusTotal, confirm with Google Safe Browsing, scan with Sucuri, then add URLVoid and phishing feeds—helps teams triage suspicious links fast. The guide covers when to use each tool and how to automate checks via APIs for ongoing monitoring. For marketers and IT alike, it’s a practical playbook to protect deliverability, brand trust, and users.
(Neural) Networking with a Business Card
A developer built a PCB business card running an on-device voice recognition model on an RP2040, squeezing the network into 46 KB and solving sampling-rate quirks along the way. It recognizes spoken numbers and displays results on a seven-segment LED—both a clever demo and a memorable personal brand artifact. The project underscores how embedded ML can create standout, low-cost networking tools for tech professionals.
The Larger-Than-Life Story of Isaac Merritt Singer
This long read traces Singer’s journey from actor to industrialist, spotlighting product recombination, mass production, and inventive go-to-market moves like installment plans and in-store demos. The sewing machine patent wars evolved into a landmark patent pool, clearing the way for rapid global scale. For modern founders, the lesson is systems thinking: align product, process, IP strategy, and distribution to unlock adoption.
Monday Morning Update 11/17/25
Health IT highlights include House Rx raising $55M for medically integrated dispensing and continued CIO investment in services—especially EHR optimization, cybersecurity, and AI/automation—per a new KLAS report. Oracle Health lands a CommunityWorks and Clinical AI Agent deal at an Illinois critical-access hospital, while Stanford details its Oncoshare data-sharing project. It’s a snapshot of where healthcare dollars are flowing: practical AI, security, and operational efficiency.
Budget Coffee Start-up Leaves Bitter Taste in Berlin
VC-backed LAP Coffee is scaling fast with streamlined, automated service and low prices—delighting budget-conscious customers while provoking backlash from independent cafés over rents and market dynamics. Critics frame the chain as a force in gentrification and retail homogenization, while founders say efficiency and innovation make fair pricing possible. It’s a live case study in how venture-fueled rollups can reshape local Main Streets.
