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From slashing operational costs and accelerating development to expanding customer reach, three entrepreneurs explain how purposeful AI adoption is helping businesses find growth opportunities.
Artificial intelligence is moving beyond experimentation to become an active driver of business growth. Across industries, companies use AI to automate repetitive tasks, cut operational costs, and accelerate time to market. These capabilities are changing how businesses operate, allowing even smaller enterprises to compete with larger organizations by delivering services faster and more efficiently.
For growth-focused businesses, the opportunity lies not simply in adopting AI but in using it to remove operational bottlenecks, improve productivity, and create room for expansion. Three founders share how they are leveraging AI to build new growth strategies.
Turning Time Savings Into Business Expansion
For Anshar Labs, AI’s value extends beyond faster execution. Under the leadership of Founder and CEO Pinaki Saha, the company uses the technology to improve operational efficiency while helping businesses take on more customers without increasing resources in proportion.
One example is generating prior authorization files for high-cost medications. A process that previously required six to eight hours can now be completed in just eight minutes. This lets teams handle significantly higher workloads while focusing on decisions that require human expertise.
“Now I can process 50 to 70 prior authorizations a day. It’s such a difference. That’s what AI is doing: it’s bringing speed to my clients, bringing productivity, bringing the ability to provide more service to humanity, which was bottlenecked because of human manpower,” Saha says.
The same efficiency gains extend to software development. AI-assisted tools have helped Anshar Labs cut project timelines from three months to 30–45 days, enabling faster product delivery and go-to-market strategies.
Saha describes the impact as a chain reaction across businesses.
“AI collectively has shrunk the timeline, cumulatively across multiple frames. Not only does it compress my time, it also compresses my customers’ time, and it compresses the time to deliver customer support to their end customers. It is a domino effect that is playing out.”
For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the cost advantage creates another growth opportunity. Anshar Labs uses AI to deliver projects at nearly half the cost, making services accessible to businesses with limited resources. Its larger ambition is to help smaller businesses expand their customer base.
As Saha puts it, “Our goal is to capture a two-customer business and convert them to a 20-customer business.”
Making AI More Affordable
While Anshar Labs focuses on productivity and delivery, Trevor Longino, Founder of GreenAI.studio and CrowdTamers, approaches AI adoption through cost efficiency and accessibility.
His “Green AI” approach challenges the assumption that businesses need expensive, advanced AI models for every task. Instead, Longino advocates replacing most AI-driven activities with standard automation and running the remaining tasks on local models.
According to Longino, this approach can reduce costs by 70–90% while improving reliability. For enterprises spending more than $20,000 a month on AI inference, his firm guarantees these savings and charges only 10% of the amount saved.
“I tell people it’s 70% or more. It’s usually 90% or more. And dependability goes up at the same time. So win every possible way you look at it,” he says.
However, Longino sees organizational change as an even bigger opportunity. Rather than centralizing AI management, he believes businesses should equip individual employees to manage their own AI agents. This would let employees apply specialized knowledge directly to their work and speed up decision-making across the organization.
“If you try and hold everything centrally, you will add no velocity. But once Toyota had robots with nine motors in them to go weld, suddenly the velocity of building changes completely. And if every line employee has their version of that robot with expert knowledge, addressable to them at speed, your organization will go.”
Longino also uses locally run AI tools to create content that reflects his own writing style, demonstrating how businesses can retain individual expression without incurring high operating costs.
Redefining Web Hosting Through AI
At Flashcloud, Co-Founder Neycho Tepavicharov is applying AI to an established industry like web hosting. The company combines hosting plans starting at $2–3 per month with free, AI-generated WordPress websites, addressing common customer concerns around high costs, inadequate support, and lengthy development timelines.
Using Anthropic’s Claude, Flashcloud can produce a complete website in one to two hours, compared with the weeks such work previously required.
The process lets customers share their website ideas, preferred colors, brand names, and design references. The AI then generates a WordPress website based on those inputs.
“We use Anthropic’s Claude, we added skills, we set the ground for what we are expecting, and then customers just put their idea for the website: the colors they need, their brand name, any website they want it to look like, and we feed that to the AI, and it creates a really beautiful WordPress website,” Tepavicharov explains.
However, Flashcloud does not rely on unsupervised automation. Tepavicharov emphasizes the importance of human oversight to maintain quality and prevent errors.
“AI works best when a human stays in charge of the judgment, because AI can do a lot of damage if it stays without someone controlling it. With one operator and AI, it just does much more work than we have ever seen before.”
This human-in-the-loop approach allows a small team to deliver output comparable to that of 30–40 people.
It also helps the company manage marketing, public relations, and customer acquisition activities that would otherwise require considerably more resources.
“Without AI, in our industry, it would be much harder to exist, even impossible for some. And now, with the help of AI, we can do things that used to require a marketing department, public relations, a lot of things to be noticed, to get customers,” Tepavicharov adds.
Purposeful AI Adoption Becomes a Growth Advantage
Across these three businesses, AI is creating growth opportunities by reducing costs, shortening delivery cycles, and expanding what smaller teams can accomplish. Their approaches differ, but they share a common principle where technology delivers its greatest value when businesses apply it to specific operational and commercial challenges.
Final Thoughts
For Anshar Labs, AI implication means turning time savings into greater customer capacity. For GreenAI.studio and CrowdTamers, it means making AI adoption more affordable and distributing its capabilities across organizations. For Flashcloud, it means transforming service delivery while retaining human oversight.
AI is lowering traditional barriers to business expansion. The companies positioned to benefit most are those that combine automation with clear objectives, disciplined implementation, and human judgment.
