AI Tools Our Clients Use to Work Smarter
The top AI tools our clients are leveraging to work smarter, not harder.
Long hours, high stakes, and constant challenges: business owners understand that hard work is essential for success. However, maintaining that success requires more than just putting in the hours; it involves leveraging the right tools and strategies to create efficiency and scalable impact. This includes embracing new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI).
At Leader Guide, we've witnessed firsthand how AI tools have transformed the way businesses operate, making processes more efficient and effective. We've been monitoring the various tools our clients are using to unlock their own productivity gains.
Here are the top AI tools our clients are using to work smarter, not harder:
Perplexity
Perplexity is an AI-powered search engine designed to provide precise and comprehensive answers to your queries. It pulls data from the internet in real-time, ensuring that the information you receive is always up-to-date and reliable.
Perplexity integrates several advanced AI models that you can choose from, including GPT-4o, Claude 3, Sonar Large, and others.
What to use it for:
Conducting in-depth research quickly
Getting real-time answers to complex questions
Summarising large volumes of information from documents
Verifying facts with reliable sources
Exploring new topics for business insights
OtterAI
OtterAI offers real-time transcription of conversations. It can automatically join and transcribe your meetings, making it easier to capture and review important discussions. Instead of trying to listen while taking notes, OtterAI frees you up to focus on the conversation at hand.
What to use it for:
Transcribing meetings and interviews in real-time
Generating automated meeting summaries
Organising conversations into searchable folders
Tagging speakers for easy identification in future meetings
Loom
Loom is a video messaging tool that helps you easily record and share videos that can eliminate the need for more meetings. The AI add-on (additional cost) features automatically generate titles, summaries, and chapters, making your videos more engaging and easier to navigate. However, the most important feature for businesses right now is the automatic SOP generator. With just a few clicks, you create step-by-step process documents from any Loom video. Previously, creating SOPs has been time consuming and painful. Loom makes it fast and easy.
What to use it for:
Creating quick video updates for your team (instead of meetings)
Recording tutorials and training sessions
Generating automatic video summaries and chapters
Turning videos into SOP documents
ChatGPT
Most people know ChatGPT - the advanced language model by OpenAI. It can be used for a variety of applications, from customer support to drafting emails and generating creative content. However, many users only tap into a fraction of its full capabilities. Beyond the common uses, ChatGPT offers a range of powerful functionalities that can significantly enhance business operations. We recommend the ChatGPT Team plan for businesses.
What to use it for:
Drafting and editing emails and documents
Generating content ideas
Conducting virtual assistant tasks
Analysing data and generating reports
Canva (with AI tools)
Canva is a popular design platform among small businesses that now includes AI-powered tools to elevate your designs. It helps you create high-quality images, illustrations and presentations quickly, making it easier to produce professional-looking content. One of the time-saving features includes "Resize & Magic Switch", which can intelligently resize graphics such as turning a square advertisement into portrait one. Canva AI allows marketing teams to move faster on ideas and projects.
What to use it for:
Designing marketing materials and social media posts
Generating high-quality images and illustrations
Creating brand-consistent content
Automating repetitive design tasks
Converting presentations into blog posts
Gemini for Google Workspace
Gemini is an AI assistant integrated into Google Workspace, enhancing tools like Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and more. Although it's still in it's early days of functionality, it can help automate and streamline various tasks across the Workspace apps. One of the most common uses is the writing assistant within Google Docs and Gmail. Download the Gemini Prompt Guide here.
What to use it for:
Drafting personalised email replies
Quickly summarising emails
Creating project plans and presentations
Generating campaign briefs and job descriptions
Researching trends
Descript
Descript is an audio and video editing tool that uses AI to simplify the editing process. It allows you to edit recordings as easily as you would a text document, making content creation more accessible without the need for advanced video or audio editing tools.
What to use it for:
Editing podcasts and video content
Transcribing audio and video files
Removing filler words and silences
Creating captions and subtitles
By integrating these AI tools into your workflow to work smarter (not just harder), you can significantly enhance your team productivity and free up precious time focus on your most important priorities.
This list was last updated August 2024.
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