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Meta has announced something that small business owners should pay attention to right now. It's called Meta business agent and it's basically an AI assistant for your business across WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger. Meta says this new AI can help answer customer questions recommend products from your catalog book appointments qualify leads and help close those important sales you are missing. They also say it can respond in your customer's local language using your toe. Now, I'm not sure about, or in this instance that that's what they're saying. Now, let me make what I just said simple. Imagine someone messages your business at 1:00 a.m. in the morning. Do you have this product? How much does it cost? Can I book consultation? Which one do you recommend? Normally, if you're sleeping or busy, maybe even filming content or helping another customer. that message waits, but with a tool like this, matter is trying to make it possible for businesses to respond faster, help customers quicker and stop losing leads just because nobody replied in time. Meta also says that people will be able to discover businesses powered by this agent through WhatsApp search. And that matters a lot because a lot of businesses do not have a traffic only problem. They also have a response problem and I've seen this with myself and my businesses. We often take too long to reply. We miss messages, we forget follow ups and we actually lose people who were ready to buy. For you guys, my audience this could be something that's really useful for answering common questions, recommending the right product, booking consultations or appointments, qualifying serious buyers and helping you stay active when you are not even online. Meta says that larger businesses will also be able to connect this to platforms like Shopify.