Welcome to Silk Logic’s Small Business Daily Podcast! I’m your host, here with the latest news on how AI and automation are transforming businesses. Today’s top story: how a new open-source AI tool could help companies cut costs by up to eighty-five percent—plus updates on smarter real estate, rental management, and customer chat.

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First up, saving big on AI costs. Lemony.ai just released Cascadeflow—an open-source tool that routes each AI request to the cheapest, most effective language model for the job. Instead of always using the most expensive AI for every task, Cascadeflow tries smaller, cheaper models first, then only escalates if needed. Early benchmarks show it can handle eighty-five percent of prompts with cheaper models, meaning businesses could slash their API bills while keeping quality high. For small companies building AI tools or chatbots, that means more features and fewer surprises on your credit card bill. If you’re worried about runaway costs in your