The Exchange - Oskaloosa's Entrepreneur's Group

Tools are necessary for all stages of business ~ from the very beginning when businesses ideas are nurtured into reality and as businesses climb over hurdles caused by growth spurts.
As The Exchange learns about viable websites or grants or educational opportunities, they will be posted here on the Toolbox page. Presentation materials or PDFs made available to The Exchange will also be linked to this page.
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  • Achieving Measurable Value
  • AI example: Fitness Brand Website UI Design Description

    https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/7822156b-a245-4671-beb1-f8852e49185e

  • AI prompt Engineering Guide

    https://www.promptingguide.ai/

  • AI Tools to Consider

    AI Tools to Consider

    Applications Best for Business Use

    1. Granola – “The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings”
    2. ElevenLabs – “The ElevenLabs voice generator can deliver high-quality, human-like speech in 32 languages. Perfect for audiobooks, video voiceovers, commercials, and more.”
    3. HeyGen – AI video generator. “HeyGen AI turns text to video in only a few minutes.”
    4. Loom – “Loom is a free video recording and messaging tool that lets you create, edit, and share videos”
    5. ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, Google AI Studio
    6. Gamma – Presentation generation
    7. Gumloop – AI Automation with a Workflow Interface
      1. Examples: Web scraping, SEO & marketing, finding leads, summarizing YouTube videos, etc.
    8. You.com – route your queries to the best model for it, automatically
      1. Select the model you’d like to use
      2. Report generation and automated research
    9. Flair AI – Product photoshoots with AI
      1. Take an image of a person, and a product, and get generated images of them posing with it, for example (in different locations, different lighting, etc)
    10. Amplemarket (sales and prospecting tool): “Empower reps, uncover opportunities, and grow revenue with an all-in-one AI platform.”
    11. Profound – “Reach millions of consumers who are using AI to discover new products and brands”
      1. Track and improve the probability your company will show up in AI search results and chats results
    12. Stitch (Google Beta product) – “Stitch is an AI-powered tool to help application builders generate high-quality user interfaces for mobile and web apps, and easily export them to Figma, or directly access the frontend code. It uses some of the latest AI models from Google DeepMind.”

    Applications Targeting Consumers or Everyday Users

    1. Reddit Answers – “A new way to get the information, recommendations, discussions, and hot takes people are looking for – on any topic”
    2. ChatGPT (Search mode)
    3. Perplexity – Search results aggregation tool trying to compete with Google
    4. Voicenotes – I love using this for just speaking my mind on things I’m thinking about, or ideas or plans, and getting summaries or to-do lists / action items – helps me get started since I have a summarized plan after droning on and on
      1. Record: Record notes and meetings. Transcribe with human-level accuracy (significantly more accurate than Apple and Otter).
      2. Ask: Your AI has perfect memory of all your notes, no matter the size. Ask questions and get insights from past notes.
      3. Share: Share with your team and family. Integrate with tools you already use like Notion and Zapier.

    Creating Custom Internal AI Tools

    1. Arcee AI – Creating AI Agents
    2. Roboflow – Create custom computer vision based tools
      1. Roboflow Universe – helps with testing ideas or discovering what is possible in computer vision
      2. Roboflow Blog – Great for staying in the know for vision-based AI breakthroughs
    3. HuggingFace – A repository of research papers and open-source models

    Applications Targeting Programmers/Developers

    Programming, Website and App Generation

    1. Bolt – “Prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web and mobile apps.”
    2. Lovable – “Idea to app in seconds. Lovable is your superhuman full stack engineer.” 
    3. v0 by Vercel – Website generation and deployment using a chat interface. Created by Vercel – the creators and maintainers of Next.js
    4. Cursor – “The AI Code Editor – Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best way to code with AI.”
    5. GitHub Copilot – “The AI [code] editor for everyone”
    6. Replit and Replit Agent – “Turn your ideas into apps with AI.”

    Appendix

    1. Building Effective AI Agents (by Anthropic)
    2. Prompting Guides
    3. “How I Use LLM’s” by Andrej Karpathy (YouTube video)
  • Building Effective AI Agents
  • Building Sustainably Profitable Products

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