Small Business AI Center

No, AI Can’t Predict Your Sales

But it can help you build a forecast you can defend. Everything from the 21 August 2026 session, in one download.

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What’s inside

• The slide deckA single web page. Works offline, charts respond to hover, nothing to install.
• The Written ProcedureThe whole method with every prompt ready to paste. Start here.
• Repeat This Analysis With Claude CodeThe same analysis on your own machine, so you end up with a script instead of an answer.
• The sample ledgerFive years, five products, sixty months, exported the messy way on purpose.

Where to start

• 1. Export twelve months of your own salesWhatever your system gives you. Do not tidy it first.
• 2. Ask for it by month, and say what a unit isThat one sentence catches most of what goes wrong.
• 3. Forecast a month you already knowThen score it. Ten minutes tells you whether to trust it.