It needs to get easier
Small and Medium businesses should have an advantage

Economists recognize that intuitive management knowledge should give smaller, nimbler SMEs an advantage over large enterprises. Managers have daily direct contact with customers and suppliers and can react immediately to market changes without complex multi-million dollar corporate analysis over things like "should we introduce a new breakfast sandwich?"
Experts predict that AI may eliminate up to 40% of current jobs in the next few years. Where will people go?
Despite all the exciting ads about the amazing software enabling 'new startups', the actual percentage of people employed by small business is shrinking. This means that—after buying all that expensive software—many of those startups don't make it.
Sumer is not high-tech, just a straight-forward solution to a universal problem.
With a little help from community, Sumer can probably do exactly what you need to do.
Is Sumer even possible?
It's right to be skeptical. If Big Tech didn't build it, how could it be true?
But the recent uproar over DeepSeek AI highlights the dynamics of an over-hyped, tightly-controlled market. Investors have sunk at least $200 billion into AI research—and the current administration has announced plans to invest $500 billion more—with expectations of eventual profits in the trillions of dollars.
Then in January 2025 a Chinese company released DeepSeek AI. It met or exceeded many of the benchmarks of OpenAI, ChatGPT and others. Silicon Valley panicked, stocks prices plunged.
From a recent article in the L.A. Times, Ray Wang chief executive of Constellation Research, explained “Companies are worried that DeepSeek will crush the profit capabilities of U.S. AI giants.” DeepSeek claims it took two months and less than $6 million to build its R1 AI model, and that DeepSeek has developed new and simpler algorithms.
Big Tech is not greeting DeepSeek with joy over the benefits for humanity despite all their previous enthusiasm about the future of AI.
The problem is that inexpensive alternatives mean consumers will not pay trillions of dollars for Big Tech AI.
Big Tech likes big investors, big projects, big salaries, big expenses, big power, big profits. Simplier algorithms ruin their plans.
Sumer itself is a start-up

Investors could reasonably ask "if we hope to reduce IT costs by 90%, why not just reduce them by 10% and enjoy the rest as profit?"
That is what Big Tech is doing right now. Lots of billionares—but we are hoping for a fairer world.
Helping small and medium businesses survive and grow by loosening the big tech strangle-hold on basic business software has its own satisfaction.
So here is what you can do:
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Watch the video. It has a lot of information, and it is not boring.
Really. - Download Sumer and try the samples. It's free. No sales people.
- Follow 'Take a Tour' on this website.
If you like what you see, tell us so, and tell others.
This video presents everything you need to know.
We hope you enjoy it.
The Sumer beta version is free to download.
This beta version is unsigned so if your browser is working properly it should set off virus blockers. You can temporarily turn off the blockers.
- For Microsoft Edge: Technipages.com/windows 11 how to enable disable smartscreen
- For Chrome:: Technipages.com//how to stop chrome from blocking downloads
or in general
- Click the three little dots in the upper right corner of the brower window,
- Go to Settings => Privacy and Security,
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Scroll down to Security and
- For Edge set Microsoft Defender SmartScreen to Off,
- For Chrome set the Safe Browsing Security to No Protection,
- Close the browser and reopen it for the new setting to take effect,
- Download Sumer.
Last update: Feb 9 2025
- Now go back to the browser and turn security back on!
- Sumer should be in your Downloads folder as Sumer.zip. Drag the zip folder to wherever you want to place it, probably in your base C:\ directory or in your Documents folder.
- Extract the files (right click on the zip folder, then 'Extract all...').
- Double-click the Sumer.exe file to open it. You shold get a warning like 'Windows protected your PC'. Click 'Run Anyway'.
All files will be created in the Sumer directory, wherever you put it. Sumer can be entirely deleted from your computer by deleting the directory.
Because Sumer beta version still undergoes frequent updates, older versions may not always run with current data formats. If Sumer is not working, try deleting the Sumer.exe file and downloading the latest version with new sample data.
Create a guest account
To create a guest account:
- Use Username 'Guest' and Password 'Sumer'.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
Welcome and Sample Data
Two menu buttons show up immediately on the Guest account screen:
- Welcome contains detailed help instructions for Sumer features and a walk through the sample data,
- Sample Data contains several options to download sample data, delete sample data, or delete scratch data.
Note: the sample data is in the cloud, you don't need to look for it on your computer.
Feel free to enter, change, delete all Menus, Stations, and data. Your account belongs entirely to you and has no connection to any other users or libraries.
If you make mistakes and want to start over, you can simply abandon your old account and create a new guest account.