AI tools, organised by what you are trying to do
Eleven jobs, with the tools we would actually start with in each — and a sentence on why, so you can skip the ones that do not apply to you.
Enterprise deployment
Tools that clear a security review: SOC 2, a contract your legal team will sign, invoice payment and SSO. Written for whoever has to get this approved.
- Enterprise contract
- SOC 2
- Invoice payment
- SSO
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If Microsoft 365 is already deployed, start with Copilot — the identity and audit questions are answered before you ask them.
Claude
Long-context reasoning with careful, well-structured writing. Strong on drafting, research and design work.
4.9
Microsoft Copilot
AI across Microsoft 365: drafting, summarising and analysis inside Word, Excel and Teams.
4.4
Figma AI
AI built into layers, prototypes and handoff — included in Figma at no extra cost.
4.5
Glean
Enterprise AI search across Slack, Drive, Confluence and the rest of your internal knowledge.
4.5Engineering
Code generation, refactoring, tests, documentation and debugging — the whole development loop, not just autocomplete.
- Code generation
- Tests
- Documentation
- DevOps
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Cursor if the choice is yours; GitHub Copilot if it has to clear procurement or run in JetBrains.
Cursor
An AI-native code editor that reads the whole project before it suggests, edits or refactors.
4.8
GitHub Copilot
The AI pair programmer from GitHub and Microsoft, with plugins for VS Code, JetBrains, Vim and more.
4.6Claude
Long-context reasoning with careful, well-structured writing. Strong on drafting, research and design work.
4.9
Codeium
Free-for-individuals AI completion with support for 70+ IDEs, so it is easy to roll out.
4.5UI and prototyping
From a prompt or a sketch to something you can click — either as a Figma file a designer finishes, or as React you can commit.
- React output
- Figma
- shadcn/ui
- Landing pages
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v0 if an engineer takes the next step, Galileo if a designer does. That is really the whole decision.
v0.dev
Turns a prompt into production-ready React UI, built on shadcn/ui so it drops into real codebases.
4.7
Galileo AI
Generates UI mockups from text, editable in Figma in one click.
4.6Figma AI
AI built into layers, prototypes and handoff — included in Figma at no extra cost.
4.5
Magic Patterns
Sketch to React component, aimed at shortening the prototyping loop.
4.4Writing and research
Long-context reading, summarising, writing in a brand voice, competitive research and putting documents together.
- Long context
- Japanese
- Summarising
- Documents
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Claude for the writing itself, Grammarly as the final check on English, DeepL when the source is in another language.
Claude
Long-context reasoning with careful, well-structured writing. Strong on drafting, research and design work.
4.9
Jasper
Marketing-first AI covering brand voice, campaign structure and SEO.
4.4
Grammarly
The default English proofreader, now with generative drafting and tone adjustment built in.
4.6
DeepL
The benchmark for machine translation — the natural Japanese output is why teams here standardise on it.
4.7Marketing
Landing pages, ad copy, social posts, blog content and generating variants for A/B tests.
- Landing pages
- Ad copy
- Social
- A/B testing
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For one person, a general LLM plus Framer AI covers most of it. Jasper earns its price when several people have to sound like one brand.
Framer AI
Describe the brief, get a landing page: from blank to a published URL in minutes.
4.6Jasper
Marketing-first AI covering brand voice, campaign structure and SEO.
4.4
Copy.ai
Sales and marketing copy, with workflows you can wire into an actual sales process.
4.3Claude
Long-context reasoning with careful, well-structured writing. Strong on drafting, research and design work.
4.9Sales and support
Summarising calls, drafting proposals, automating FAQs, building response templates and transcribing conversations.
- Meeting notes
- Proposals
- FAQ
- Customer response
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Fireflies if calls need to reach a CRM. Otter if you just want accurate notes without configuring anything.
Fireflies.ai
The veteran meeting recorder: CRM sync, speaker analytics and topic extraction for teams.
4.5
Otter.ai
Transcription wired into Zoom, Google Meet and Teams, with automatic summaries and action items.
4.5Claude
Long-context reasoning with careful, well-structured writing. Strong on drafting, research and design work.
4.9
tl;dv
Records, transcribes and summarises Zoom, Meet and Teams calls with shareable timestamps.
4.5Meeting notes
Transcription, summaries and action items from Zoom, Meet and Teams — automatically, and without someone taking minutes.
- Minutes
- Transcription
- Zoom
- Summaries
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Granola if a recording bot joining the call would be awkward. Otherwise Otter for individuals, Fireflies for teams.
Fireflies.ai
The veteran meeting recorder: CRM sync, speaker analytics and topic extraction for teams.
4.5Otter.ai
Transcription wired into Zoom, Google Meet and Teams, with automatic summaries and action items.
4.5
Granola
Takes your rough notes during the meeting and completes them afterwards; processing stays on your device.
4.7tl;dv
Records, transcribes and summarises Zoom, Meet and Teams calls with shareable timestamps.
4.5Voice and music
Narration, dubbing, music and voice cloning — for social video, course material and podcasts.
- Speech synthesis
- Narration
- Music
- Dubbing
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ElevenLabs for anything spoken, Descript if the job is editing recorded conversation, Suno or Udio for background music.
ElevenLabs
The industry standard for synthetic speech: multilingual narration, voice cloning and dubbing.
4.7
Suno
Full-length songs from a text prompt — lyrics, melody and vocals included.
4.6
Descript
Edit audio and video by editing the transcript, including filler removal and voice correction.
4.5
Udio
Studio-quality AI tracks from a genre and a prompt; the main alternative to Suno.
4.5Data and research
Log analysis, structuring user interviews, writing SQL and building the first version of a dashboard.
- SQL
- Log analysis
- Interviews
- Visualisation
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Claude for the analysis itself — long context means the whole dataset description can go in. Perplexity for the research around it.
Video and motion
Short social video, product demos, motion graphics and tutorials — both generated footage and presenter video.
- Video generation
- Motion
- Editing
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Runway or Luma for generated footage, HeyGen or Synthesia when a person needs to speak to camera.
Runway
Text to video, motion brush and magic edit — the whole loop in the browser.
4.8
HeyGen
Avatar video at scale: text to a presenter in many languages, with lip-sync and dubbing in one click.
4.5
Luma Dream Machine
Short clips from text or an image, with motion quality professionals actually use.
4.5
Synthesia
Enterprise avatar video for training and product documentation, with SOC 2 and GDPR coverage.
4.4Images and visuals
Mood boards, hero images, illustration, brand visuals and producing social imagery at volume.
- Image generation
- Mood boards
- Illustration
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Midjourney unless the image needs legible text (Ideogram) or has to survive a licensing review (Adobe Firefly).
Midjourney
The benchmark for image quality — strongest when you are building a visual world or mood board.
4.9
Ideogram
The image generator that actually renders legible text inside the picture.
4.5
Adobe Firefly
Adobe's image model built for commercial use, integrated into Photoshop and Illustrator with clean licensing.
4.5
Leonardo
Game and concept art pipelines, with trainable custom models.
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