Nureeyah Ogunmuyiwa, a makeup artist in Lagos, uses ChatGPT to manage her business operations. The tool assists with hiring, social media content, and calculating product pricing. She reports that AI contributes approximately 5% to her business growth while allowing her to avoid manual administrative tasks.
Chinmayee Mishra, owner of Patta Chai in Bengaluru, integrates AI into her cafe operations. She uses ChatGPT, Canva, and Adobe Express for marketing and administrative workflows. Mishra employs Zoho Zia Agents to analyze sales data and compare prices with competitors within a 10-kilometer radius.
Mishra pays approximately 2,000 rupees per month for ChatGPT Plus, 500 rupees for Canva Pro, and 2,500 rupees annually for Adobe Express. She uses these tools to translate staff instructions into Hindi and Bengali, focusing her own time on menu development and customer experience.
Wendi Ma, a film director in Zhengzhou, transitioned his production studio to AI-generated minidramas. By using ByteDance’s Seedance model, his studio reduced production costs from 200,000 dollars to 20,000 dollars per series. The production time decreased from two months to under one month.
Ma’s studio now employs 10 people instead of a 50-person crew. The cost to generate one second of video using Seedance ranges from 0.8 to 1 yuan. Staff members, nicknamed lottery masters, generate several hours of footage to select clips for a 90-minute series.
