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I Tested Hundreds of AI Tools. I Kept 7.
I used to treat AI tools like apps on my phone.
I used to treat AI tools like apps on my phone.
Download one. Use it hard for a week. Forget it existed by the next Monday. My home screen turned into a graveyard of tools I was sure would change my life.
The problem was not the tools. It was that nobody tells you which ones are hype and which ones actually pull their weight.
There is so much noise right now that picking randomly feels like the only option.
So I did the boring thing. I tested hundreds of them. I trained professionals on them. And then I cut the list down to seven.
Seven tools. They power about 90 percent of my work. And together they have saved me hundreds of hours I used to lose to busywork.
1. The chatbots (and which one for which job)
Here is the assumption I have to kill in almost every training I run. People think ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude are basically the same, so it does not matter which one you grab. That is wrong, and using them randomly is a bad strategy.
Each one has a job.
Claude is your writer. It produces better first drafts, the writing sounds more human, and you need fewer revisions…
