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Someone on your team has probably built an AI agent, workflow, or spreadsheet that you do not know about, and new Pax8 data shows it is common in small businesses. Treat every agent like an employee with rules, an owner, and a handoff plan, then use four steps to find what is running, who owns it, and what it costs.
Buying a business means taking over someone else's succession plan, whether the seller ever called it that or not. Six questions for the seller show what you are inheriting before AI enters the picture.
A business that runs on you plus a few AI agents still runs on whatever only you understand. Writing the business down, keeping that record current, and reviewing it with AI is how automation stops deepening the dependency.