Meta launches Asia-Pacific AI academy for small businesses
Meta’s new AI academy shows the bottleneck is training, not tools. It spans 12 Asia-Pacific markets as small businesses still need help turning AI into revenue.
Meta’s Small Business Growth Academy, launched June 23, stretches across 12 Asia-Pacific markets and pairs AI training with governments, chambers of commerce and local program partners. The program is built around a gap many workplaces still recognize quickly: buying software is easier than changing how work gets done.
Meta says the academy will teach small businesses to use AI-enabled advertising tools, Reels, WhatsApp for Business, cross-border commerce and Meta Business Agent. That mix points to the same adoption problem SaaS teams see inside their own customer base. The blocker is often not access to features. It is whether managers and employees have the time, confidence and workflow redesign needed to use them consistently.
Meta is leaning on Deloitte research that says many small and midsize businesses already use at least one AI tool and most plan to adopt more, but still need help turning that interest into business results. That is a familiar shape for monday.com, where the value of a new seat or a new feature depends on whether teams can embed it into daily work. monday academy is built around that challenge, with self-paced courses, live and on-demand webinars, learning paths and certifications aimed at helping users build skills, optimize workflows and get more from the platform.
The comparison gets sharper in monday.com’s own AI roadmap. In 2026, monday.com introduced AI agents including a Lead Agent and an SDR Agent for sales-development work, signaling a shift from managing tasks to getting them done. Meta made a similar move on June 3, when it launched Meta Business Agent and described it as AI that lets every business show up for every customer as if it had an infinite team behind them.
For monday.com’s sales, customer success and product teams, the competitive edge is no longer just shipping automation or adding another agent. The companies that win will be the ones that make AI understandable, coachable and repeatable inside real workflows, so customers move past pilot projects and into habit.
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