Bombos teamBy Piet Baudoin · 19 September 2026
This week, human approval became the default at the largest maker of AI agents for small businesses, Exact got an AI analyst for your numbers, and LinkedIn decided to show AI text less often. Three stories, each with its source, and what they mean for a growing business.
What did Anthropic announce for small businesses?
On 15 September, Anthropic expanded its package for small businesses to 43 ready-made workflows and 27 new connections, including Xero, Gusto, Stripe, Shopify and Zapier. It is available on every paid plan.
The sentence that matters sits halfway through: “By default, Claude does the work and waits for your approval before anything sends, posts, or pays.” By default, the assistant does the work and waits for your approval before anything is sent, posted or paid.
That is good news, with one caveat. Anthropic also writes: “Once you’re comfortable with a workflow, you can let it run on its own.” So the approval is a setting you can turn off per workflow. What the difference is between a setting and a boundary, and why that matters, you can read in Should an AI assistant send email on its own?.
Source: Anthropic, 15 September 2026
What does Exact’s new Financial Agent do?
On 3 September, Exact, one of the largest Dutch business software makers, presented the Financial Agent: “an AI feature that helps financial teams analyze financial data, spot trends and make informed decisions” (translated from Dutch). It scores your business on more than sixty financial ratios, such as liquidity, solvency and profitability.
The same announcement holds a number that says more than the announcement itself. According to Exact’s own SME Barometer, AI use on the work floor in small businesses went “from 6% in 2024 to 70% in 2026” (translated from Dutch).
What this means for you: the AI in your accounting software is becoming a good analyst of your numbers. The work that costs your people the most hours sits somewhere else, between email, the phone and the software. What that looks like is in What is the agentic economy?.
Source: Exact, 3 September 2026
Why does LinkedIn show less AI text?
LinkedIn reported on 15 September that it recognizes text it calls “AI slop”, and now shows it less often: “Recent efforts have already helped reduce views of content classified as AI slop by 40%.” The platform says it blocks hundreds of thousands of automated comments every day. LinkedIn’s own writing assistant is being scaled back to proofreading and clarifying, without changing the writer’s voice.
If you write as a business owner on LinkedIn, the lesson is simple. Let a program check your text, and write it yourself.
Source: LinkedIn, 15 September 2026
What does this mean for your business?
All three stories point the same way. AI agents are reaching the real work: sending, booking, paying. The makers are building approval around that, and the platforms where your customers read reward what a person actually wrote.
The question you can ask a supplier stays the same: can anything leave the building without one of your own people signing off, and can that be turned off? With Bombos, it cannot be turned off. Bombos does the groundwork, you approve it, and you keep working in your own Outlook and your own software. We start with one task, such as a shared inbox or quotes that nobody chases, with the promise that after three months that task is ready every day, without anyone having to think about it.
Where is this heading?
I think we will soon see that it is far more efficient to let agents handle buying and selling. An agent pays attention to different things than a person does. It reads every specification, compares every price and every delivery time, and is not swayed by a nice photo or a familiar name. Because of that, the product that is genuinely best for the job will start to win.
For your business, that is very practical. Your offer online will be written by your AI and read by the buyer’s AI. What people read, you still write yourself, because that is what the platforms reward. What agents read has to be complete, current and unambiguous: what it costs, what it can do and when it is available. The business that has that in order gets found by the buyer who no longer searches by hand.
Sources
Every source was opened on 19 September 2026 and every quote appears in it word for word.
Anthropic: Claude for Small Business launches new workflows, integrations, and training programs (15 September 2026) · Exact: Nieuwe AI-agent brengt financieel professionals sneller van cijfers naar beslissingen (3 September 2026) · LinkedIn: How LinkedIn is Continuing to Tackle AI Slop (15 September 2026)