Best AI Tools for Business

Best AI Tools for Business

The keyword here is automation. That’s what modern businesses expect from artificial intelligence.

Instead of manually repeating some tasks, AI can automate parts of your work, like producing text for your website or marketing campaign, emails, or generating visuals, videos, and more.

There are all kinds of AI tools made for businesses of all sizes. Nevertheless, we had to limit our list somehow and pick those that we think are worth your time.

So, we’ve selected a few that we believe will be most beneficial to small businesses — though we have also seen some of them being used by major corporations. Here are those AI tools:

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LINER

LINER

A web-based tool that combines searching and collecting information in a user-friendly interface

👍 Pros

👎 Cons

  • Great tool for collecting all kinds of content from the Internet
  • LINER's learning capability lets you uncover more content you may like
  • You can create your very own personal knowledge base with LINER
  • GPT 4 integration is available only with the most expensive plan
LINER is a web-based tool that combines searching and collecting information in a user-friendly interface. It also uses AI to generate answers from reliable references and suggest the next steps in your search. The platform enables you to highlight content across the web, from articles to YouTube videos, and to discover personalized favorite content, all of which can be easily accessed anytime for future use...

In the information-overloaded society, getting through the noise is becoming increasingly difficult. LINER was made to tackle this problem, helping you/us navigate the deluge of online information more efficiently.

Working as a web-based tool, it aims to streamline your internet browsing experience, allowing you to quickly locate and learn valuable information. This is made possible through a combination of search and collection features, all housed within a single tool. So, whether you’re conducting research for a project, looking for the latest news, or just exploring your interests – LINER will help you get the information you need without flooding you with irrelevant data.

LINER relies on ChatGPT to suggest what you might want to search for next. The idea here is to improve your search experience and tailor it to your specific needs.

In addition, LINER offers a universal highlighter feature across the web. You can use it on articles, images, PDF files, and even YouTube videos. It’s like having a highlighter pen for the internet, allowing you to mark up important points or interesting facts as you come across them.

Also included is a feature for discovering favorites from the web, making your information search easier and more personalized. As a result, you can uncover interesting and relevant content based on your preferences.

Finally, it’s worth adding that LINER provides storage for all the highlights and discoveries you make so you can quickly access them later on. This effectively serves as your personal knowledge base, letting you revisit and reuse the most valuable information.

With all these features, LINER your web browsing experience is no longer only about consumption but also about collection and curation — turning the entire world wide web into a more meaningful resource.

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Dialpad

Dialpad

Support customers, drive sales, and collaborate with your team with the power of AI

👍 Pros

👎 Cons

  • Brings AI to many parts of the organization
  • Increasing sales alone is worth the price of Dialpad
  • Can do wonders for customer support
  • There are better options out there for meetings alone
Dialpad is made to streamline communication with customers on every channel with its AI-powered customer intelligence platform. As such, the service wants to "completely change how you work" by providing your team and customer conversations with real-time transcription, sentiment analysis, live coaching, predictive CSAT, and more...

More than a tool for enhancing meetings, Dialpad is made to streamline communication with customers on every channel with its AI-powered customer intelligence platform. As such, the service wants to “completely change how you work” by providing your team and customer conversations with real-time transcription, sentiment analysis, live coaching, predictive CSAT, and more.

Dialpad consists of several parts, including AI Contact Center, which is described as the “world’s most advanced customer engagement platform”; AI Sales Center for outbound sales with live coaching at every step; AI voice – the “world’s smartest business phone system”; and AI Meetings.

All of these are meant to work together to ultimately bring your company’s productivity to the next level, and then some. Or you can buy these solutions separately, whatever fits your needs.

What’s more, the company’s DialpadGPT technology brings along several AI features to the mix — including instant call summaries and in-the-moment coaching for sellers and support agents. That tech, according to Dialpad, was built for business from the ground up and works for every role, industry, and segment. Plus, it can be customized to understand unique business use cases and industry-specific jargon.

Dialpad says, and its pricing confirms this, that its solution is made for small and big businesses alike. Among its customers are such names as LA Chargers, Sacramento Kings, Asana, Randstad, WeWork, TED, Uber, Remax, and Ooredoo, among others.

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ClickUp AI

ClickUp AI

Get your work done faster with the AI-powered assistant tailored to your role

👍 Pros

👎 Cons

  • Project management on steroids and then some
  • What used to take 30 minutes now takes 30 seconds
  • Works for different kinds of roles in your company
  • You have to pay more to use ClickUp AI
The all-in-one project management service ClickUp has its own AI tool that aims to help users get their work done faster. It does that by providing users with relevant tools for different roles. For instance, you can use it for sales, marketing, customer support, project management, product & engineering...

The all-in-one project management service ClickUp has its own AI tool that aims to help users get their work done faster.

It does that by providing users with relevant tools for different roles. For instance, you can use it for sales, marketing, customer support, project management, product & engineering.

Whichever role you’re in, you will be able to use AI to summarize long text and write faster. Much faster. As ClickUp says, what used to take 30 minutes – now takes 30 seconds.

Have writer’s block, and you need to prepare an article for Medium? No problem; let AI spark your creativity by generating the full page from the title you provide. It can do the same with ads and other written material, and at the end – make it look professional with your company’s header.

The best part is that ClickUp made sure access to AI is available throughout its platform. So wherever you are in ClickUp, AI assistance is just a click away. Love it.

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Notion AI

Notion AI by Notion

AI service of the popular note-taking service

👍 Pros

👎 Cons

  • Super easy to setup
  • Works across all your notes, docs & projects
  • Easy drag & drop text editor
  • It can take a while for it to understand your tasks
  • It can be difficult to use for complex tasks
An AI service of the popular note-taking service, Notion AI is promoted as "your ultra-capable teammate" that will summarize what's important and actionable...

An AI service of the popular note-taking service, Notion AI is promoted as “your ultra-capable teammate” that will summarize what’s important and actionable. And because it’s integrated within Notion, there is no need to jump back and forth between your notes and a separate AI app.

According to Notion, this combination will help users quickly fix spelling & grammar, translate texts, edit the tone of their writing, make it shorter or longer, better explain stuff — and even get new ideas for their writing.

Also worth noting is Notion’s unique and highly flexible drag-and-drop text editor, which allows users to rearrange and transform any AI-generated content easily.

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Surfer

Surfer

An AI-enable content intelligence tool that helps content teams grow brands, organic traffic, and revenue

👍 Pros

👎 Cons

  • SEO-optimized, AI-powered content writer
  • Includes anti-AI detection!
  • Makes life so much easier for agencies
  • Not the most affordable option out there
Surfer is an AI-powered marketing tool designed to help companies "skyrocket their organic traffic." It will give you an SEO workflow to boost your organic traffic, increase your visibility, and improve your rank...

Surfer is an AI-powered marketing tool designed to help companies “skyrocket their organic traffic.” It will give you an SEO workflow to boost your organic traffic, increase your visibility, and improve your rank.

At its core, Surfer helps users research, write, and optimize in a click. It can produce top-quality, well-optimized articles in 20 minutes, and it will be 7 times cheaper than using a dedicated writer!

The company claims that its engine analyzes over 300,000 words across the Internet when generating an article — and around 100k words only to create your custom outline! That’s like reading an entire Harry Potter Book!

But, as they say it, Surfer AI doesn’t just generate articles – it generates traffic. In that sense, the tool is meant to streamline content creation, free you up to review the final product, and hit “Publish” with confidence and precision.

Powered by GPT-4, Surfer will help you rank higher in Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) while also delivering valuable content for your audience.

Finally, it is easy to use, with the process involving picking up your keyword(s), adjusting article settings, reviewing the article outline, and lastly – generating the article.

As of October 2023, Surfer is being used by more than 20,000 content creators, SEOs, and agencies.

How can I help your business?

In short – a lot. Why waste your time on manual labor when AI can automate a (big?) portion of your work while saving you money along the way? For instance, AI can:

  • Generate reports

    Because of its ability to understand text and other data, AI tools can help businesses more easily generate various reports, charts and graphs included. As a result, some reports can be generated up to 10 times faster.

  • Produce summaries

    Summarizing lengthy documents, such as financial reports, research papers, or meeting minutes, can free up a ton of time in your day. Instead of going through hundreds of pages, you can go through a 5-page summary. Or make it even shorter if you want.

  • Automation

    Tasks like invoicing, payroll processing, and email responses could easily be automated with good AI tools while reducing the chances of human error. AI tools can also be used to connect multiple services and work in harmony with other services you’re using.

  • Improving customer support

    You can create your very own chatbot that is trained on your data to respond to customer inquiries. Such a chatbot would be able to respond to many questions that otherwise require a paid employee, who, in this scenario, would be used to troubleshoot more complex problems or assist in some other way.

  • Marketing

    There are a plethora of AI tools made to help businesses with marketing. Such tools could be used to create articles and blog posts, ads for all popular platforms, graphic elements, social media management, and much more.

  • Content creation

    We had to mention this as a separate use case as it is very important. There are both AI tools dedicated to content creation as well as those that integrate this capability into a larger context. Both are well suited for different kinds of tasks and will dramatically increase the effectiveness of your business.

We’ve just scratched the surface here, but the point is – AI is coming to a business near you. The question is not whether you should adopt it; the question is whether you can afford NOT to wholeheartedly embrace AI.