Anthropic just released Claude Sonnet 5, and for small business owners, THIS one actually matters. Here's the short version: the gap between "cheap AI" and "AI that can actually finish a job unsupervised" just got a lot smaller. Testers are already reporting it handling two-part, multi-step tasks end to end (updating a CRM and sending a follow-up campaign, for example) without stalling halfway. That's the kind of thing that used to require the expensive, top-tier models. Why this matters if you run a small business: ✅It's priced for you. Introductory pricing through August 31st is a fraction of top-tier model costs. ✅It's already where you're working. Default model on Free and Pro, available on Team, Enterprise, and Claude Code. ✅It finishes the job. Less "close enough" output, less cleanup on your end. ✅It's safer to hand real work to. Lower hallucination rates and better resistance to prompt injection, which matters when it has access to your email, calendar, or customer data. If you've been putting off AI automation because the good models felt too expensive to justify for a small operation, that excuse is gone.