🤖 5 (AI) Tool Friday - August 4th

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Hey everyone!

Welcome back to ‘5 (AI) Tool Friday,’ where we ditch the news, deep dive into trending AI tools, and give you an actionable mega-prompt so you come back better prepared for the week ahead.

Happy Friday, let’s get it.

Deep Dives

AI TOOLS
Your Friday Deep Dive
No sponsorships here, just facts.

1. Merlin
“the ultimate browser extension powered by ChatGPT”

Bottom Line: If you’re using ChatGPT for multiple tasks, this extension saves the back-and-forth switching and allows you to access GPT-4 on each page, although it’s a bit slow and clunky.

Cost: The free plan starts with 51 queries a day. Upgraded plans start at $14.95

Key Features:

• Youtube & blog summarizer

• Access current data

• Unlimited Access to GPT-4

• Add chatbot on any website

• Translate into multiple languages

Pros:
Has multiple plugins built-in. This saves from sourcing them out on ChatGPT and enabling them on a need-by-need basis.

Cons:
The extension interface isn’t immediately user-friendly and requires some trial and error to figure out how it works. The prompt library seems to generate definitions of the prompts rather than using them to optimize your current text. It’s also slower than ChatGPT-4 and Llama 2.

➡️ Check out Merlin’s website here

2. Bardeen
“Automation is now as easy as texting a friend”

Bottom Line: They provide plenty of free credits, access to the Pro plan, and hundreds of pre-built automation prompts. Definitely something to check out.

Cost: Starter plan is free and includes a 14-day Pro trial. To upgrade, it’s $10/mo.


Key Features:

• AI-built automation

• Scrape data from websites and send it to your web apps

• No code solutions

Pros:
Clean onboarding flow. Includes a “Playbook” with hundreds of pre-built automations that lets you know how much time you’ll be saving per task.

Cons:
Should have some automation experience as there is a learning curve, specifically on building a new scraper.

➡️ Check out Bardeen’s website here

3. Motion
“Motion automatically builds your schedule”

Bottom Line: If you’re willing to hand over your credit card for the 7-day free trial, its worth running through the integrations and giving it a shot. Personally, I liked the Task Management feature.

Cost: 7-day free trial with individual plans starting at $19/mo if billed annually. ($34 if billed monthly)


Key Features:

• Creates a schedule based on your meetings, tasks and to-do list

• Builds individual plans for your team and adds them to their calendar

• Prioritizes and adds tasks to your schedule

• Acts as a personal assistant in meetings

• Connect to tools with their API and integrations

Pros:
Native integrations with Google Calendar, Zoom, Zapier, Gmail and Meet make getting everything hooked up and running very smooth.

Cons:
Requires a credit card to access the 7-day free trial.

➡️ Check out Motion’s website here

4. Castmagic
“Turn audio into content, like magic”

Bottom Line: If you’re using this for your content or your competitors it’s a great way to clean, categorize and optimize content from video and/or audio, however your plan can get exhausted very quickly based on the minutes allocated.

Cost: 7-day free trial, credit card required. Plans starting off at $23/mo for 200 minutes going up to $179/mo for 1500 mins.


Key Features:

• Supports 50+ languages

• Media cleaned, transcribed and ready to publish

• Timestamps and topics done instantly

• Summaries by speaker

• Create Tweet threads and LinkedIn Posts

Pros:
If you’re using Youtube you can pull everything off with just a link. The features are quick, clean and processing time is surprisingly fast. The content generated required edits but there is definitely a time-saving factor here.

Cons:
Audio files under 10 minutes didn’t produce optimal results.

➡️ Check out Castmagic’s website here

5. Magic Studio
“Create amazing Product Photos in minutes”

Bottom Line: I had fun playing with it but didn’t see much that Canva couldn’t do.

Cost: Starts you off with 40 free photo edits. Upgrade monthly for $29.99 or $14.99 when billed annually.


Key Features:

• Remove unwanted items with a magic eraser tool

• Background eraser

• Enlarge pictures without losing quality

• Text-to-image generator

• Custom profile pictures (upcharge of $4.99)

Pros:
It gives you 40 free photos to try.

Cons:
I didn’t see anything that can’t be done on multiple other apps (some for free), so the monthly price isn’t worth it.

➡️ Check out Magic Studio’s website here

[PROMPT] TUTORIAL
Find Business Ideas with this Mega Prompt


This prompt helps someone who wants to start their own business but doesn't know what kind of business to create.

It asks questions about what you like and know, what's popular right now, and how to turn a simple idea into a real plan for a business that could make money.

The Prompt:
Customize [example] inputs

Tool: ChatGPT-4

Image of the Day

Midjourney + Keanu
Keanu Reeves Starring in …
Taking a look at Keanu if he starred in different roles, although it just looks like Keanu Reeves playing John Wick, cosplaying other parts.

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That’s a Wrap

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