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A focused AI toolkit
General thinking and drafting: ChatGPT or Claude for outlining, rewriting, analyzing, and turning rough notes into structured work.
Research: Perplexity or search enabled assistants for discovering sources, then open and verify the original sources.
Meeting notes: a consent aware transcription tool for summaries, decisions, and action items.
Design: Canva’s AI features for quick drafts that still follow your real brand system.
Video: Descript or a similar editor for transcript based cuts, captions, and cleanup.
Automation: Zapier or Make for moving approved information between the tools you already use.
Knowledge: one organized document system for approved brand facts, offers, processes, and examples.
Quality control: a human review checklist for accuracy, privacy, tone, originality, and final approval.
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Put it to work
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