Fanatic AI Solutions Wins Back-to-Back Best Small Business Tech & AI Awards

Carl Harris, known as “The AI Godfather,” leads Fanatic AI Solutions to win the Best of America Small Business Awards in 2025 and 2026.

WALDORF, MD, UNITED STATES, October 19, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Fanatic AI Solutions has been named the Best Small Business – Tech & AI winner for the second year in a row.

Carl Harris, known as “The AI Godfather,” and Fanatic AI Solutions have won the Best of America Small Business Awards in both 2025 and 2026. Their success highlights innovation in Southern Maryland.

Fanatic AI Solutions was founded by Carl Harris, a Certified AI Consultant and Certified State Approved Instructor who is widely known as “The AI Godfather.” The company has been named a 2026 Best of America Small Business Awards winner in the Best Small Business – Tech & AI category.

This award marks the second year in a row that Fanatic AI Solutions has received this national recognition. The company first won the Best Small Business – Tech & AI award in 2025.

For Harris, winning two years in a row shows both that Fanatic AI Solutions is continuing to grow and that the company is making progress toward its larger goal: helping small businesses understand and use artificial intelligence to solve real-world problems.

> “Winning this award once was an incredible honor. Being recognized for a second consecutive year makes it even more meaningful,” said Harris. “It reinforces our belief that small businesses can be leaders in artificial intelligence when the technology is made practical, understandable, and focused on solving real business challenges.”

Bringing Practical Artificial Intelligence to Small Businesses

Fanatic AI Solutions helps businesses move beyond just hearing about artificial intelligence and start using it in their daily work.

The company creates and puts practical business tools into use. These may include AI agents, custom apps powered by AI, business automation, smart customer-service systems, customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, lead-generation systems, websites, automated workflows, and AI consulting and training.

Harris has developed his approach to artificial intelligence through years of hands-on experience owning businesses, teaching, professional training, and working directly with service-based businesses.

Instead of focusing only on the technology itself, Fanatic AI Solutions looks at how artificial intelligence can make everyday business tasks easier and more effective.

“AI should not be something only large corporations can afford or understand,” Harris said. “Small-business owners should be able to use the same technological advances to save time, improve customer service, reduce repetitive work, generate opportunities, and compete more effectively.”

“The AI Godfather” Focuses on Education and Implementation

Harris is professionally known as “The AI Godfather,” and teaching people about AI is a major part of his work.

As a Certified AI Consultant and Certified State Approved Instructor, he explains complex artificial intelligence ideas in simple language and helps working professionals and business owners learn how to use them.

His approach focuses on putting AI to work rather than using technology just for its own sake.

“The value of artificial intelligence is not simply what the technology can do,” Harris explained. “The real value comes from helping people understand how to put it to work inside their own businesses. My goal is to bridge that gap between emerging technology and practical everyday use.”

This approach has helped shape Fanatic AI Solutions into a company that does more than provide advice. It also builds AI-powered systems and applications designed to meet real business needs.

National Recognition With Strong Southern Maryland Roots

Although the Best of America Small Business Awards are national awards, Harris remains closely connected to the Southern Maryland business community.

As a proud member of the Charles County Chamber of Commerce, Harris sees this award as a chance to showcase the new ideas and technology work being developed by small businesses in Charles County and the surrounding region.

“As a proud member of the Charles County Chamber of Commerce, it is especially meaningful to bring this recognition home to our Southern Maryland business community,” Harris said. “Innovation does not have to come only from Silicon Valley or major technology corporations. Small businesses right here in our communities can build, adopt, and lead with artificial intelligence.”

Harris hopes the award will encourage other business owners to explore how AI can help their businesses succeed instead of seeing the technology as something they cannot afford or understand.

Back-to-Back Best of America Small Business Awards Recognition

Fanatic AI Solutions first won the Best of America Small Business Awards in the Best Small Business – Tech & AI category in 2025.

Its 2026 win makes the company a two-time winner of the award in consecutive years.

Harris says winning again sets a higher standard for the company's future work.

Carl Harris
Fanatic AI Solutions
240-981-4852
[email protected]

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