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Artturi Jalli
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8 AI Business Tools You Have to Use

Let me show you the best and most practical AI tools for your business.

This is your guide if you don’t want your business to miss out on the AI hype.

I’ll show the main use cases of each product and my results with each tool.

Disclaimer: This post is reader-supported. It has affiliate links at no cost to you. If you buy, I may earn a small commission at no cost to you.

1. CustomGPT.ai

Internal Document & Customer Support Chatbot AI

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Custom GPT is an AI chatbot builder. It’s great for both reading internal documents and handling support.

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If you have company information that should be easily accessible, CustomGPT is something you have to try!

This AI business tool resolves 93% of your support requests.

You can even use it as a research assistant on sensitive company-level information.

You can teach CustomGPT to read and memorize all your web pages, PDFs, Confluence documents, chats, and more.

It can analyze and memorize anything.

Then you can ask it anything, and it will create an answer in less than 20 seconds. Also, it will point to the exact place where it got the information from.

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You can create your own CustomGPT agent with no technical experience in a minute. It’s a no-code platform, so any employee can implement one!

For example, I trained this AI to read all my website content and respond to questions related to any information found on my site.

Here’s a screenshot that shows how I did it.

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Yes, I just told it the URL of my site and created the project.

But I noticed that the bot would still find information from the internet, too, which I didn’t like. So, I customized it to give answers based only on my website data.

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I embedded the AI agent into my website.

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(Once again, this was super easy. All I had to do was sign in to my website admin view and copy-paste an AI-generated script there.)

This AI answers all my questions in an instant. Thus, I can use this as a customer support chatbot for my visitors.

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It shows the source of the information on the website so people can verify its reliability.

I had low expectations for AI chatbots because of their history, but they have improved a lot.

CustomGPT gives accurate answers and cites sources instead of using generic responses to waste time.

👉 Try CustomGPT for free

2. Decktopus

AI Presentation Generator

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One of the best ways to use AI is for making presentations or pitch decks.

After trying many, my favorite is Decktopus.

You just describe your presentation, and it does the rest — creating images, writing text, and arranging slides like a pro. It’s amazing.

Here, I’m asking it to make a presentation on “How to start programming from scratch.”

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Then, in just 30 seconds, the AI created my presentation.

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You can customize it however you want, either manually or with AI.

Every part of the presentation — images, text, subheadings, and layout — is generated by AI.

All I did was describe what I wanted in one sentence.

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3. HeyGen AI

AI Cloning Tool

HeyGen is the most impressive AI business tool on this list today.

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This tool creates an identical clone of yourself that can say anything in any language. This is getting wild!

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If you don’t want to be in front of a camera ever again, that’s possible thanks to HeyGen.

The idea is to create a clone and then let it handle your presentations, talking head videos, etc.

Before you can use it, you just need to send it a short clip of yourself talking. You’ll find short instructions for this video on HeyGen’s site.

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Also, HeyGen has ready-made AI actors. If you don’t want a clone of yourself, you can still use this tool for presentations.

Just pick an actor and create a script.

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If you want to see a complete tutorial or my results with the tool, check this video I made.

👉 Try HeyGen Free

4. BetterPic AI

BetterPic is an AI headshot generator.

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This tool creates realistic headshots for your entire team.

No more hassle, stress, or crazy costs for physical photoshoots!

For example, my LinkedIn photo was made with this AI tool.

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To create your headshots, just upload a bunch of images of yourself to the AI.

Here are the real photos of me that I used:

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By sharing the photos with AI, it will then learn what you look like.

Here are the AI-generated images that I got back in less than 60 minutes.

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Also, don’t forget that you can pick a bunch of styles for your images depending on the industry you’re working in.

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Also, you can customize your photos with AI, too.

For example, you can change clothes, backgrounds, fix eye color, and more. Heck, you can even ask one of their team members to edit photos for you.

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This is one of the most impressive tools on the list today. The only reason it’s lower on the list is that it’s more of a one-time-use tool than a continuous AI automation.

👉 Try BetterPic for Teams

5. Murf AI

Text-to-Speech AI Converter

Murf turns text into a realistic-sounding voice using AI.

You can use it for ads, voice-overs, speech translation, and more.

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This isn’t your typical mid-2010s text-to-speech that sounds robotic. Murf offers voice actors that sound just like professional speakers, available in multiple languages.

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As a business owner, you can use this tool to create voiceovers, sales pitches, and much more.

Here’s a voice clip I created with Murf.

And that’s just one voice.

You can create similar clips in different languages and with different voices as well.

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👉 Try Murf AI Free

6. Contentshake

AI Content Creator

ContentShake is an AI writer.

It generates blog posts and news articles from a simple text input.

For example, here I’m asking the AI to write a blog post about “Productivity tips for working at home.”

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With just that one-sentence instruction, the AI created this entire post.

Plus, ContentShake has a content editor that offers suggestions to improve your posts.

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This kind of tool can help you draft blog content to draw inspiration

To find a complete guide on how to use this product, make sure to read my Contentshake review.

Just remember that this is not a good replacement for a human writer. It’s more of an assistant.

After all, AI doesn’t think, it doesn’t experiment, it just spits out words. In fact, whatever AI tools you’re using, this is good to keep in mind.

👉 Try ContentShake AI — get 10% off with the link

7. CodeDesign AI

AI Website Builder for Small Businesses

CodeDesign is an AI tool that creates a website from scratch. All you need to do is tell the AI what kind of site you want to create.

Here’s a quick 80-second guide that shows you how I built a site with it.

For example, here I’m telling the AI to create a blogging site about “How to use AI in business and education.”

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Here’s the website it created:

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If you’re not happy with the result, you can use CodeDesign to edit your site by clicking and dragging elements across the site.

It’s easy to use, fast, reliable, and gives OK results, considering it takes just minutes to create with it.

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This is perfect for small businesses that don’t have professional web designers or coders yet.

Instead of spending days figuring things out, you can have your project’s website live in seconds.

However, remember that this is not a large-scale business site builder. In fact, I would not use it as anyone else but an early-stage startup or firm that simply needs a site quickly.

👉 Try CodeDesign

8. Grammarly

AI Proofreader & Content Analyzer

Grammarly is my favorite AI tool as a blog writer. It fixes all my typos as I go!

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The quicker you write, the more mistakes you make. The less you pay attention to grammar, the more mistakes you make.

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That used to be a trouble when it came to editing your content.

But today, you can use AI to edit your content.

Grammarly is an AI tool that analyzes your text in every window you visit. It will spot and highlight mistakes in your writing.

For example, here’s me writing a blog post with a ton of mistakes:

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Grammarly makes it easy. It lets you focus on writing, which is the most important part.

Just click the suggested fixes to fix your typos and spelling errors.

The best feature is the Chrome extension.

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It works in every tab you visit, whether it’s a blog editor, Gmail editor, etc.

Speaking of emails, one of the best uses for Grammarly is emails.

Instead of having to rely on my punctuation and grammar skills, I can outsource it to AI:

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I’ve been using Grammarly every day for 3.5 years as a full-time content writer. In fact, I’ve stuck with the free version because it already does the job perfectly.

Make sure to try — especially if you write as you work!

👉 Try Grammarly

That’s a Wrap!

Make sure to test the AI tools, as most of them are free.

This can save you time and money so that you can focus on the real business. :)

Thanks for reading!

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