Meta launches Muse for small businesses, linking its AI agent to Shopify
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Meta wiring Muse into Shopify, Stripe, Canva, and QuickBooks turns its AI agent into an operating layer for small-business back offices—order handling, marketing, and bookkeeping from inside the social graph. If you sell SaaS to SMBs, assume Meta will increasingly intermediate those workflows and plan for distribution, not just feature, defensibility.
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