🤖 The Top 6 AI Tools for Consultants
Cutting through the AI noise so you can work more effectively
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Upgrade your Consulting AI Stack with Otter.ai, ChatGPT, Bard, ChatGPT for Google, ChatGPT for Sheets and ChatPDF
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Working Effectively
This week we’ve identified the most valuable tools for your Consulting AI Stack*. Here are the top 6:
Otter.ai
What it does: Automatically writes meeting notes using real-time AI transcription. Also records your meetings, captures slides and generates automated KTAs.
How to use it: Integrates directly into Zoom and via Otter Pilot in Teams, also has a Chrome Extension.
ChatGPT
What it does: Generates human-like text based on prompts.
How to use it: Integrate it into your existing workflows: Hypothesis Generation & Ideation; Secondary Research; Writing Slides, Surveys, Call Guides & Emails; Editing Content etc.
Bard
What it does: Similar functionality to ChatGPT.
How to use it: Bard isn’t limited to Sep 2021 (like ChatGPT) so use this when you need real-time search results or ChatGPT isn’t cutting it.
ChatGPT for Google
What it does: Browser extension that integrates ChatGPT into your search experience.
How to use it: One of the best AI functionalities I’ve used - it shows ChatGPT’s responses alongside your search results.
ChatGPT for Sheets
What it does: Browser extension that integrates ChatGPT into Google Sheets.
How to use it: Automate any text-based workflow in Sheets such as data tagging, data cleaning, adding descriptions etc. Excel doesn’t yet offer AI functionality so copy and pasting to Sheets is your best workaround.
NB. Requires ChatGPT Premium and setting up the API (not a long process).
ChatPDF
What it does: summarises any PDF using ChatGPT.
How to use it: enables you to summarise and query documents rather than reading through them so a must-have for secondary research and public reports.
*Stack - in a technology context, the set of software or tools used together.
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