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Advisory5 Featured in Charlotte Business Journal

How Charlotte's small businesses are running ahead of the large enterprises around them on AI — and what that speed gap means for the ecosystem.

May 22, 2026Charlotte, NCSource: Charlotte Business Journal
Advisory5 founder Igor Gorlatov

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Charlotte Business Journal published a deep look at how small businesses are adopting AI faster than the large enterprises around them. In a city anchored by financial services, the contrast is sharp. Major institutions are building governance frameworks brick by brick while smaller operators are already running.

Advisory5 was featured as one of the examples. The piece covers what it looks like to build an organization from the ground up using AI as core infrastructure — not as an experiment or a pilot, but as the way the work gets done. The piece captures a moment that matters for Charlotte's health innovation ecosystem: the speed gap between those who can move and those still deciding whether to.

Other voices in the piece

The article also includes perspectives from:

  • Ally Financial's Chief Risk Officer on how a large bank is approaching AI governance.
  • Lavoie CPA on what AI looks like inside accounting practices.
  • AI Collective on the risks small businesses don't always see.

Why it matters

Charlotte is building health innovation infrastructure. The organizations that can move quickly on AI will help shape what gets built next. Advisory5 is one of the smaller operators already in motion.

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