AI automation for Singapore SMEs. The hard part is knowing what to trust.
AI could save your business hours every week. Little Red Bot is an independent guide to AI automation in Singapore for small businesses: real tool comparisons, grant math that includes the vendor markup, and templates you can copy. No vendor owns us.
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Only 14.5% of Singapore SMEs use AI (IMDA, 2024 data) — and owners describe pre-approved quotes marked up far beyond the direct price; one puts it at more than 100%. We do the math before you sign.*
Independent — We sell no implementation and rank nothing for money. When a free tool is enough, we say so.
Grant-literate — PSG, SFEC, EIS, EDG and the EDGE transition — tracked and dated, with sources on every claim.
Practitioner-written — Written by someone who runs his own automation stack and publishes the method — not a content farm.
Latest answers.
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A three-email welcome sequence over 14 days, sent from your own Gmail, run by one Google Sheet and one Make scenario. No code, no email platform. Checked 10 Sep 2026.
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Read itAutomate your invoice chasing in one afternoon (free template)
Build a polite, persistent invoice-reminder machine: a 7/14/30-day email ladder that runs itself from a Google Sheet. Free n8n template included, plus Make and Zapier routes. Checked 26 Aug 2026.
Three ways in.
Grant guides
PSG, EDG, SFEC, EIS — what actually pays for AI tools, the stacking math, and when the grant is not worth it.
Tool comparisons
Comparisons with receipts: pricing, limits and grant terms verified against primary pages on a stated date.
Playbooks & templates
Step-by-step builds you can copy: invoice chasing, enquiry handling, reporting. Templates included.
The Red Dot Report.
One useful email a week: an automation worth copying, a grant status line, a tool verdict. Written for owners, not engineers.
*Sources: IMDA Singapore Digital Economy Report 2025 (SME AI adoption 14.5% in 2024); vendor-markup reports are SME owners' first-person forum accounts (Feb–May 2026) — quotes verified verbatim, author histories checked where stated; anecdotes, not a survey. See the markup guide. Full citations on every article.