AI doesn't always save you time.
How often have you wasted two or three hours trying to understand a new AI tool?
Every day seems to bring a new app, a new platform, and a new game-changer. It's tempting to try them all.
But you can't be an expert in everything. And when it comes to AI, your expertise matters.
That's why I've made a conscious choice to go deep, not wide. To focus on understanding a core set of tools really well.
For me, that's nine tools that I use every single day.
So here’s my Step Three in ‘Building an AI L-A-U-N-C-H-P-A-D’ for your team / career / business (delete as appropriate).
U = Understand 9 tools well.
Here’s my BIG 9, the tools I use every day.
There's OpenAI's ChatGPT4, of course
Perplexity for research
Anthropic's Claude 3 for aiding writing and summarising
Gemini AI Advanced (best all-rounder. better than ChatGPT and Claude, in my view)
Beautiful.ai for presentations
Midjourney for image generation
Fireflies.ai for transcription and conversation analysis
Zapier for automation
Microsoft Copilot for admin
These aren't just tools I've played with. These are tools I've invested in.
Tools whose features, quirks, and capabilities I now know much better.
Only when you truly understand a tool, can you push it to its limits.
Take Fireflies, for example. On the surface, it's just AI transcription.
But for me, it's become a knowledge bank.
Meetings, conversations, brainstorms - it's all there, transcribed and searchable, ready to be mined for insights and ideas.
So don't get caught up in the hype of every new AI app.
Don't spread yourself thin trying to master them all.
Pick a few that resonate with you, and complement your skills and your workflow.
It might take you longer to do something with AI in the beginning.
But once you've mastered it, you might get that time back x 100.
Which are your go-to AI tools?
Read more about my Nine Steps to Building an AI Launchpad here: https://lnkd.in/eQq8vR-j