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title: "Anthropic's Claude helps small businesses despite a backlash against AI — Marsanne Studio AI watch"
description: "Anthropic is promoting Claude for Small Business through workshops, while SME owners say they face criticism for using it."
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Announcement · 15 September 2026

# Anthropic's Claude helps small businesses despite a backlash against AI

**Publication**

Business Insider (United States) · subscribers only

**Author**

[Stephen Council](https://www.businessinsider.com/author/stephen-council)

**Published on**

15 September 2026 · read in the page structured data

## Summary

Anthropic is promoting its Claude for Small Business tool to small businesses through workshops. Small business owners say they have faced criticism for using AI.

Summary based on the article's title and standfirst, as the text is not accessible.

[Read the article on Business Insider →](https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ai-starter-pack-for-small-businesses-2026-9)

## Classification

**Country**

United States

**Company size**

Micro-businesses, SMEs

**Industries**

All industries, or industry not specified

**Companies**

Anthropic (supplier)

**Keywords**

claude, small businesses, anthropic, ai adoption, backlash

Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Business Insider and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.