Michigan has 945,788 small businesses, 99.6% of all businesses in the state, employing 1.8 million people. 89% report rising costs. They are being told to adopt AI. Most AI tooling is built for companies that already have engineers, compliance staff, and enterprise budgets.

The AI Collective Detroit challenge requires solutions deployable in 30 days, under $50/month, with no technical staff. VerifyAI solves this directly.

A business owner describes their AI agent workflow in plain English (or, just selects a preset), clicks Run Sweep, and gets a Norton-style red/yellow/green verdict in 90 seconds. The wedge is Michigan's defense mobility supply chain, where small businesses must prove cybersecurity compliance to win/keep subcontracting opportunities but cannot afford the consultants and engineers who normally produce that evidence.

VerifyAI compresses that work into a repeatable, non-technical sweep: describe the agent, run the sweep, get the verdict. We call this: continuous compliance.

From Michigan, for Michigan.