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Business Owners: Are Your 401(k) Plan Fees Too High? Speak with Susan and Carol Ann about what you're really paying for your 401(k) plan. We bring clarity to complex fee structures and help you understand your options—whether you're evaluating your current plan or considering a new one. Susan Michel CEO & Founder Carol Ann Fernandez, CFP® COO Glen Eagle Advisors, LLC is an SEC Registered Investment Advisor https://gleneagleadv.com/firm-disclosures 4422C NJ-27, P.O. Box 399, Kingston, NJ 08528 (609) 631-8231 www.gleneagleadv.com info@gleneagleadv.com Understanding your company's 401(k) plan fees shouldn't be complex. Contact us for a FREE review of your plan. We can: Uncover Hidden Fees: Identify costs buried in statements, including revenue-sharing arrangements See the Real Impact: Understand how fees affect employee savings and your recruiting edge Evaluate Your Options: Compare your plan to current industry standards children next fall doesn’t need a better spreadsheet. She needs a system that ties together enrollment projections, staffing ratios, compliance requirements, and cash flow in one place. That tool, built with her in mind, largely doesn’t yet exist. Larger multi-location chains have staff time to evaluate and implement new technology. Owner-operators don’t. When tools aren’t built for your context, the problem isn’t adoption, it’s product-market fit. Infrastructure math The business case for getting this right extends well past care businesses themselves. Think of it as infrastructure math. Every stable childcare center has an exponential impact on the other firms that can function because of it. Every home health agency that grows is enabling families to make decisions about work and caregiving on their own terms. Every women-owned care business that scales disproves the assumption, held by too many developers and investors, that these industries are low-tech, lowgrowth, and not investment-worthy. That assumption is self-reinforcing. If funders believe care businesses are not AI-forward markets, they won’t build for them, and the gap will widen. The opposite is also true: when evidence shows that AI adoption creates real, measurable returns in care settings, capital and innovation will follow. The Care Capacity LabTM , initiated by the Women’s Entrepreneurship Institute, is mapping the landscape of existing AI tools for the care economy and engaging the full ecosystem to understand what is working, what is missing, and what women-led care businesses actually need to grow and become more profitable. The Lab is designed to produce not just findings but concrete, practical solutions to power care businesses that survive, scale, and anchor communities. This work, and the narrative carried forward by enterprising care business owners, will demonstrate that the right question isn’t whether operators can catch up to technology. It’s whether technology can catch up to them. For the care business owners and directors who’ve been managing shifts, paperwork, and enrollment by hand for decades, better tools can be the margin between a business that closes and one that stays open. That is not a gender story. That is a GDP story. SIMA LADJEVARDIAN is co-founder and president of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Institute (WEI), a member of the Enterprising Women Advisory Board, and a 2026 recipient of the Enterprising Women of the Year Award. Connect and learn more at sima@weiimpact.org. UNDERSTANDING AI 32 enterprising Women

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