I Tried 100+ AI Tools. These 7 Are the Best

In This Issue

• The seven AI tools I keep coming back to every week.
• Two warm-outreach calls from a first round of outreach.
• Claude Duet brings morning briefings, background work, and follow-ups to a personal AI agent.

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• Find patterns in your top posts and see exactly what to make more of.
• Analyze competitors and build a weekly plan with the best times to post per platform.
• Have Claude write a caption in your brand voice and schedule it for your best-performing slot.

The result? Better results on social media with less effort.

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I Tried 100+ AI Tools. These 7 Are the Best

I tested more than 100 AI tools and kept the seven I use every week. I use Claude Code and Codex to build, OpenRouter to run multi-model automations, a VPS to keep work running 24/7, Grokbot for routines, Glydo for voice control, key.ai for media, and Trigger.dev for predictable scheduled jobs.

The mistake most people make: They chase every new tool and end up with a stack they barely understand. Pick the tool that fits the job, learn it deeply, and replace software you only use for one small feature.

How this helps you: You can build a leaner stack that does real work for you instead of adding another dashboard to manage. That gives you a practical starting point for your own business or your next client build.

Winning Is All We Do

Two calls from a first warm-outreach push

What happened: Yadukrishnan Presheed put off his first warm-outreach push for two weeks, then booked calls with a CEO and a business owner. Both conversations ran longer than planned, and he used Claude with the ICE framework to evaluate the solutions they discussed.

The opportunity for you: Business owners are often more curious about AI than you expect. Start a real conversation about their processes, listen for the problems they want fixed, and turn those insights into the case studies that lead to your first client.

This is one of many success stories from AI Automation Society Plus. If you're not a member, you're missing out.

In the News

Claude Duet keeps working after you close the chat

The news: Anthropic introduced Claude Duet, a personal AI agent that sends morning briefings, works on tasks in the background, and asks for approval before sensitive actions like sending messages or making payments. It uses your existing Claude memory, skills, and connected apps, and is in a waitlisted research preview for Pro and Max subscribers in the US.

How it affects automation: This points to an opportunity beyond one-off chatbots: helping businesses keep track of work across their tools and act on what needs attention. If you build with n8n or Claude Code, look for recurring jobs like inbox triage, meeting preparation, and invoice follow-ups where background work plus a human approval step can save time.