Recommendations for AI tools to help run my business

Not sure if I'm posting this in the right spot, so feel free to move it if needed. Here’s where I’m at... I'm the CEO of a company and have been trying out some AI tools, mainly ChatGPT, to make things smoother. Now I'm looking for suggestions on other tools that could really boost my management skills and knowledge for running a successful business. Especially for those who work in corporate settings, what AI tools do you find useful? I'd love to have a list of tools or apps, and if you could drop links that would be great, as long as it doesn't break any rules here. Also, a brief rundown on how they help would be awesome. Please mention the pricing too, whether it’s monthly or yearly, so I can see if it fits our budget. Just trying to explore what's out there and find the best options.

You are confused at the beginning. Tools do not improve neither your knowledge or your skills, they help automate some tasks and save you some time. The closest that it gets to using "AI" to do something for you is paying a freelancer to do it for you. Do you gain the skills and knowledge when a freelancer completes some job for you? Of course not. If you want to improve your knowledge, open a damned business book. How about you state first what exactly is it that you need, and what is it that you do? CEO of a company is such a generic term, that only random suggestions can be given to you. There are tools that are general-task oriented, and tools that are specific task- or industry- oriented. Therefore, tell us first what kind of company are you running and what is it that you are trying to do?

I want something I can use for programming, accounting, and building a company workflow for different departments such as marketing, accounting, IT, human resources, and field collection, especially for tasks involving money handling. I want something that can be used for monitoring and management, preferably based on global standards like ISO or something similar. Things like that.

I would start with how many mistakes the AI made at a time when it was entrusted with some control. I don't want to argue with those who trust AI and the amazing advantages that AI helps people in terms of running their business, but every time I think about myself personally, I am convinced that a robot cannot do better than a human specialist can. I would not blindly trust; I would allow it, but I check everything regularly, and thus it turns out that the use of AI would still not be full-fledged. https://hackmag.com/news/pocketos-fail

The idea is not new. Still a company also needs to overcome issues. What happens to your model when ChatGP, Gemini, and all else start asking for 5 bucks each promp?

I highly recommend perplexity.ai It's a go-to AI tool for ceo like you. Over 20,000 organizations trust this AI to help them manage their projects. I'm using the version for our children's personal research; it's fast and highly accurate. You can try this tool to see if it is the one you're looking for.

The paid version of Claude is probably your best bet on this without going into more specialized software that is going to cost you a lot more. Remember there is always a tradeoff here, so be careful not to end up like some idiotic companies that are now paying more in AI costs than the cost of the employees that they replaced with said AI. Claude should be able to handle most of that aside perhaps the ISO standards. There is a long term risk of vendor lock-in, but this should not be a big consideration for most because they are gladly accepting a vendor-lock in or several already. Most idiots here and everywhere are using Windows which is the shittiest OS on the planet and they are using more things from the Microsoft product suite. Only people who are using better alternatives and refusing to lock themselves to other vendors would seriously consider that being an issue. That statement, written like that, is false. The correct writing is that the "current robots" cannot do better than a human specialist can -- but that is going to change. Are you aware or are you in blind naivety, that the super-majority of people employed in every single job that exists are incompetent? Replacing them is not going to be difficult, replacing those that are actually competent or real experts (not fake ones of which there are plenty) is the hard part. You can always automate many things very well. It is supposed to be a work enhancer, not a "let it do all for you and pretend that it increased my productivity" kind of thing yet. Certain individuals or entities using the tools in a wrong way and leading to catastrophic failures does not say anything really. You may not know because these stories are not publicly shared or that interesting because they are frequent, but there have been countless cases where software interns were given access to the production environment by mistake and they ended up nuking everything -- which is the fault of the seniors who set it up.

You need AI for what exactly? Are you running a company that is creating digital art or something or designing some kind of things to your clietns and anything? AI can give you some info without you need to search on your own but I highly doubt you can do much with the help of AI with your compnay...

The obvious thing would be to go the Microsoft route, because they are trying to work AI into their whole office suite and you're probably already paying for a chunk of their software anyway. You should look at Copilot licensing because it has proven to be a very effective form of AI based on my experience with it. I think that Claude might be doing better now and some colleagues are highly praising it, but I don't have any direct experience with it. You can get the copilot AI to do all sorts of things like prioritizing email and writing massive chunks of code for you. ChatGPT is the amateur and rookie level, plus it does not properly silo you private data - essentially all interactions with it are feeding into it's model, which could end up leaking very sensitive company data, but Microsoft have licensing that segregate your data to prevent this.

Sounds like you need multiple tools then. I can't believe a single tool would be enough for that. As far as my experience with AI goes, especially with LLM, I think they're fine for simple coding but probably would need a lot of intervention if you're handling large codes. What kind of progamming you need actually? Is it long-term coding or just to make a single app for your workflow? Why do you need AI instead of hiring a competent developer? Is cost the only reason for that?

As a CEO, you can use the Socratic dialogue method (invented by the philosopher Plato) for self-improvement.🙋 That is, you can simply take a walk in the park during your lunch break and answer questions posed by your language model. To do this, you need to train your language model in advance to use a highly critical approach when formulating questions. Also, train it to ask no more than one question at a time.🙅 After this, describe the production situation (that currently bothers you) to your language model in as much detail as possible. It will ask you questions, and you will answer them. Through this dialogue, you will begin to understand the production situation much more deeply. This is very important because people often deceive themselves. People don't like to ask themselves difficult questions. But your language model doesn't have such a problem. If you train it to ask you tricky questions, it will.💁

We believe that AI has also extended its own standard with the increasing era. According to some people AI has proven to be beneficial and according to some people it is harmful.Everyone has their own experiences so it is not wise to prefer AI for everything because before AI came every work was being done according to the method of human creation.Those works were also 100 percent correct.Now AI cannot be trusted completely because it has given wrong advice and information many time.According to my opinion human creation and its hard work are more reliable and anyway even in the era of technology AI cannot do every work alone.Human help will definitely be needed.

There are multiple models that you can use, and right now, most people are using Sonnet on the Claude platform, which belongs to Anthropic. You might have heard a lot about Anthropic lately because their models have been used by the U.S. Department of Defense to lock targets and possibly do many other things of which we cannot know, of course. I have used Claude and I think it works better, it can easily be integrated into our IDEs and other working environments. However, I found Claude more expensive than ChatGPT, but there are different providers, there must be some in your local hometown too, who are providing these services at cheaper prices. I do not know how they are doing it. Besides Claude's models, you can use DeepSeek's models, but I have never used them and I do not know much about them either. If you had mentioned the nature of your work, I might have been able to give a better suggestion, but so far I know that if ChatGPT is not doing your work, then Claude will. I am not promoting it, I have just used it for several purposes and it worked perfectly.

You gotta explain what use case you want to use, most AI are already good enough and they can spawn subagent. Main agent for orchestrating subagent for delegation of tasks. If you're going to use it for coding you can use OpenAI's Codex and so on. If what you're doing is just summarizing pdf and whatnot using perplexity will be sufficient. It narrows down to the use case that you want since each AI have its own strength in certain fields, I do use Grok for reviewing whitepapers a lot though. These are tough tasks and your best bet is Claude Opus 4.7 + hermes. But I haven't found any AI that could do all of this seamlessly and you're going to need to create your skills for your AI.

There are so many departments you want to handle with AI    But I think Claude is the best option for this right now, since there are several departments you want to handle, and you can integrate them directly with Claude's skills. But wouldn't it be better for you to consult with a consulting firm about this? There should be firms that can help you integrate AI into your business. That way, you won't be confused.

Yeah and what if he does? A small business can easily be run by an individual who covers all of that. Furthermore, most people that are employed in most of those departments are completely incompetent shitheads. Either they barely know what they are doing or they are doing some repetitive manual work which they believe is complex even though it can be easily automated by software. Most departments in most large  companies should not even exist, but bureaucracy and regulation requires you to have bullshit roles where little people can use to make themselves feel important.  No. Most consulting firms are a waste of time and completely incompetent too, including the top consulting firms such as McKinsey. McKinsey has ruined so many big enterprises with their advice that is is laughable how naive and stupid the world is for hiring consultant. They give your work to interns and entry level joe's with no real experience in the industry that you need help with and then charge you senior or executive prices.  Consultants are mostly bear counters that were not smart enough to become experts in any single field, so they joined the field of bullshitting. AI can consult you better already than 99% of consulting firms and employees.

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