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AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
Product feed validators for AI ecommerce
Use feed validation tools to catch listing data errors before a marketplace or ad platform rejects the feed.
- Marketplaces and shopping ads ingest a product feed — a file of titles, prices, availability, images and identifiers — and reject items with missing or malformed fields; a validator checks the feed against the platform's rules before submission so rejections are fixed in bulk rather than one email at a time.
- Workflow: Pre-submission check
- Workflow: Weekly health check
ChatGPTClaude
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
Airtable Automations for business process automation
Automate around records in Airtable: triggers on record changes, scheduled runs and scripts.
- Airtable automations fire on record events or schedules and run actions including scripts, which makes it a good home for process trackers where the data and the automation live in one place.
- Workflow: Status-driven notifications
- Workflow: Scheduled review list
Any assistant
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
GitHub Actions for developer automation
Automate checks, deploys and scheduled jobs next to the code.
- GitHub Actions runs workflows on repository events and schedules, with a marketplace of actions and hosted runners; it is the default place for CI, release automation and nightly jobs when the code lives on GitHub.
- Workflow: CI on every push
- Workflow: Nightly job
Claude CodeAny assistant
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
Make for no-code automation
Use Make's visual scenarios for branching automations with routers, iterators and error handlers.
- Make builds automations as visual scenarios of modules with routers for branching, iterators for lists and explicit error handling per module; it suits processes with real logic and is priced on operations, so loops need care.
- Workflow: Branching with a router
- Workflow: Processing a list
MakeZapier
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
Zapier for workflow automation
Build reliable multi-step zaps with paths, filters and error handling.
- Zapier connects thousands of apps with triggers and actions and adds paths, filters, formatters and a code step; it is the fastest way to automate between SaaS tools and the easiest to make fragile if every zap is a straight line.
- Workflow: Straight line with a filter
- Workflow: Branching with paths
ZapierMake
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
ChatGPT data analysis for AI data analysis
Use the data analysis feature to explore a file with code you can read, not answers you must trust.
- Uploading a CSV to ChatGPT's data analysis mode lets it write and run Python to profile, chart and summarise the data; the code it runs is visible, which is what makes the output checkable.
- Workflow: First look at a file
- Workflow: A chart with the code
ChatGPTClaude
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
Google Search Console for AI SEO
Use Search Console as the source of truth for what actually ranks and gets clicks.
- Search Console shows the queries your pages appear for, impressions, clicks and positions, plus indexing and page-experience issues; every SEO decision should start from its data rather than from a third-party estimate.
- Workflow: Find near-misses
- Workflow: Indexing check
ChatGPTClaude
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
Descript for AI content creation
Edit audio and video by editing the transcript, and use its AI features for the tedious parts.
- Descript transcribes a recording and lets you cut, rearrange and clean the media by editing the text; its AI features remove filler words, level audio and generate short clips, which turns hours of editing into minutes for talking-head content.
- Workflow: Podcast episode
- Workflow: Clips for social
ChatGPTClaude
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
Shopify Magic for AI ecommerce
Use Shopify's built-in AI for descriptions, emails and support replies inside the admin.
- Shopify Magic generates product descriptions from a few keywords, drafts store emails and suggests replies in Inbox, all from within the admin, so it suits stores that want speed without another tool.
- Workflow: Description draft
- Workflow: Inbox replies
ChatGPTClaude
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
Canva Magic Studio for AI marketing
Use Canva's AI features for fast social visuals that stay on brand.
- Canva's Magic features generate layouts, resize designs across formats, rewrite copy inside a design and remove backgrounds, which covers most day-to-day social and ad visuals when a brand kit is set up.
- Workflow: One design, every size
- Workflow: Copy variations in place
ChatGPTClaude
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
NotebookLM for AI research
Ground an assistant in only the documents you upload.
- NotebookLM answers from the sources you add and cites them, which is the right tool when the answer must come from a defined set of documents and nothing else.
- Workflow: Question a report set
- Workflow: Draft from sources only
ClaudeChatGPT
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
Perplexity for AI research
Use a search-first assistant for questions where the answer must come with sources.
- Perplexity runs web searches and writes an answer with inline citations, which makes it useful for current facts and for finding sources fast; the citations, not the prose, are the product.
- Workflow: Find primary sources
- Workflow: Check a claim
ClaudeChatGPT
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
GitHub Copilot for AI coding
Use Copilot completions and chat for the boilerplate and stay in charge of the design.
- Copilot completes code as you type and offers a chat that understands the open files and, with the right setup, the repository; it is strongest on repetitive code and tests, weakest on architecture and anything it cannot see.
- Workflow: Test generation
- Workflow: Boilerplate
Claude CodeCursor
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
Cursor for AI coding
Use Cursor's inline edits, chat with codebase context and agent mode without losing control of the diff.
- Cursor is an editor with the model wired into inline edits, a chat that can read your codebase, and an agent mode that makes multi-file changes; its value is speed on changes you already understand, and its risk is accepting diffs you did not read.
- Workflow: Inline edit with a precise instruction
- Workflow: Agent mode for a small feature
Claude CodeCursor
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
Notion AI for AI for business
Use Notion AI to summarise, draft and fill properties inside the pages and databases you already keep.
- Notion AI acts on the page or database you are in: it summarises pages, drafts sections, translates, and can auto-fill database properties such as a summary or a category from the page content.
- Workflow: Auto-summarise meeting notes
- Workflow: Draft from an outline
ChatGPTClaude
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
Microsoft Copilot in Office for AI for business
Use Copilot inside Word, Excel and Outlook for documents you already have open.
- Copilot reads the document, sheet or mailbox you are working in and can summarise, draft, rewrite and build formulas from that content, which removes the copy-paste step of a standalone assistant.
- Workflow: Summarise a long thread in Outlook
- Workflow: Explain a sheet you inherited
ChatGPTClaude
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
Claude Projects for AI productivity
Use Claude projects to give every conversation the same knowledge base and rules.
- Projects hold a knowledge base of documents and a set of instructions; conversations opened in the project can reference that material, which suits long documents, style guides and reference data.
- Workflow: Editing to a style guide
- Workflow: Long document analysis
ChatGPTClaude
AI tool guide · Beginner · 20 min
ChatGPT Projects for AI productivity
Use projects to keep files, instructions and chats about one piece of work together.
- A project is a container that holds custom instructions and uploaded files, and every chat started inside it sees both, so you stop re-pasting the same context into every conversation.
- Workflow: Recurring status updates
- Workflow: Document Q&A
ChatGPTClaude

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