8 AI Tools to Grow Your Business in Half the Time

We live in an AI bubble. 58% of Americans have heard of ChatGPT (71% of those with a bachelor's degree), but far fewer know about other tools. First-mover advantage is real. Despite the many other options available, relatively few entrepreneurs have tried them. But they're missing out.

Not going beyond ChatGPT would mean sacrificing your progress. ChatGPT has a unique writing style and can't do everything. At least for now. Consider other AI tools besides ChatGPT and see which ones are right for your business.

AI Tools to Grow Your Business: Try It Now

Confusion

Like Google, but friendlier. Perplexity AI differentiates itself from traditional search engines by providing a chatbot-like interface and allowing users to ask questions in natural language. Chat to find answers as you go. It's like talking to a knowledgeable person who consults all sources of information.

You can also follow up on queries and digress, and Perplexity will add a citation each time you do so. Perplexity Pro costs $20 per month, but a free version is also available.

Lucca

Think refreshing your brand assets would cost a fortune and take weeks? Think again. Looka is a commercial graphic design platform that lets you design your entire brand in just a few clicks. It's streamlined, intuitive, and fast.

Start for free and when you're happy, buy your designs. You can also update your social media profiles, design a brand kit, order personalized products, and more.

Rizzle

It is an AI video creation platform that automates video creation using generative AI from text, podcast, and video inputs, with no editing required.

Rizzle claims to increase podcast, YouTube, and video engagement by 10x by creating thumbnails, extracting clips from video and audio files, and creating engaging videos from text in minutes.

grammar

You may have heard of Grammarly, but it's not exactly an AI tool. It's more than just a spell checker. Grammarly improves your writing with advanced grammar, punctuation, and style suggestions. Think of it as your personal editor.

Grammarly Business provides style guides and team usage statistics to ensure consistent communication across your organization, with plans starting at $12.50 per member per month.

crystal

Understand someone's personality from their online presence and use that to engage on a deeper level. Crystal is a simple Chrome extension that highlights traits and characteristics and suggests how you can adapt your style to make them feel at ease.

“It's easy to connect with people who are similar to you,” the tool's website says. But it helps you “adapt to people who are different from you.” How valuable is better outreach and stronger relationships to your business?

Surfer SEO

The tool claims to be able to research, audit, write, optimize and generate SEO optimized articles in 20 minutes. If SEO is a potential growth channel for your business, using this tool will save you time even if you are already using ChatGPT to write articles.

Surfer SEO is backed by SEO professionals and provides a systematic approach to building your site's content if you're serious about ranking in search engines.

Microsoft Copilot

Copilot describes itself as “more than ChatGPT from OpenAI built into Microsoft 365,” but rather a tool to unlock your creativity, unleash your productivity, and improve your skills. If you already use Microsoft Office products like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, you'll find this tool very useful. Look for the Copilot button in Word to “go from a blank page to a finished document in a fraction of the time.”

Outside of Office products, Copilot's chat interface allows you to specify your conversation style to be more creative, balanced or precise – perfect for switching between tasks like creating content, coming up with ideas, analyzing data or coming up with new strategies.

Google Gemini

Google Gemini, which rebranded from Bard in February 2024, won't stop until it earns the title of the ultimate AI tool. And Gemini might surprise you. When we asked Gemini what it can do that ChatGPT can't, they replied that Gemini “excels at tasks that require factual accuracy and information retrieval.”

Gemini means Google Workspace gets features like a research assistant, sales assistant, writing coach, creative partner, effects editor and more across the Google Suite of tools. It's well worth taking the time to try them out to see which ones work for you.

AI has a lot more to offer than ChatGPT. Try these tools now

Don't get stuck in the ChatGPT bubble. Branch out and try these AI tool experiments. Know what's out there before you get trapped. Refresh your brand, understand your audience, build your website with SEO in mind, create videos and video assets, write in different styles, incorporate AI into your emails and spreadsheets. The possibilities are endless, so the learning curve is worth it.