The best AI tools for small businesses in 2025
AI will change the way businesses operate in 2025. We're entering the era of hyper-efficiency. Those who aren't onboard will be left in the dust.
The team at a16z recently posted a helpful list of AI tools they've been experimenting with.
I've taken the liberty of adding a couple of bangers I've been using.
General Assistance
- Perplexity: AI-powered search engine and research assistant
- Claude: General chatbot, great for projects and sharing work
- ChatGPT: General chatbot; includes Advanced Voice Mode for AI interaction
- Co-pilot: Technically openAI but built into Microsoft products
Get Work Done
- Thriday: Automate bookkeeping, accounting and tax for business with AI
- Granola: AI notetaker that listens to meetings and formats transcripts into notes
- Whisper Flow: AI voice dictation that turns speech into text in any app
- Gamma: Create decks, docs, and websites to present ideas with AI
- Adobe Chat with PDFS: Summarize and chat with PDFs
- Cubby: AI workspace built for collaborative research
- Cora: AI email assistant that organizes inboxes and automates responses
- Lindy: Build AI agents to automate workflows
- Sprintlaw: AI powered legal services for business
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Build an Audience
- Delphi: AI text, voice, and video clones to chat with your audience
- HeyGen: AI avatars to scale content production or translate videos
- Augi: AI avatars for social media videos
- Overlap: Turn long-form videos into short viral clips with AI
- Persona: AI agent builder for creators
- Captions: AI avatars and video editing (e.g., auto-captions, correct eye contact)
Build a Product
- Cursor: AI code editor that knows your codebase
- Replit: AI agents to make apps and sites from natural language
- Anychat: Use any AI model in one place
- Codeium: AI-powered autocomplete for your code
- Lovable: AI code generator to make apps and sites from natural language
Get Creative
- Eleven Labs: Realistic AI voices
- Suno: Create songs/music from text prompts
- Midjourney: AI image generation
- Ideogram: AI image generation
- Playground: AI image generation
- Runway: AI video generation
- Kling: AI video generation
- Viggle: AI video generation
- Krea: Creative canvas to make/enhance images and video
- Photoroom: AI image editor for product photos and visuals
- koala.sh: Content creation for longform and shortform blog posts to boost SEO
- Photo AI: Generate photo and video content with AI
Learn or Grow
- Rosebud: Interactive journal using AI to surface insights
- Good Inside: Parenting co-pilot with personalized support
- Ada: AI code editor that knows your codebase
- Ash: Personalized AI counselor/coach
- NotebookLM: Turn any document into an AI podcast
- Particle News: Combines multiple articles into summarized stories
Have Fun
- Remix: Social app for creating/sharing AI images and videos
- Meta Imagine: Make AI images of real people using Meta (Facebook)
- Grok: Chatbot from xAI
- Curio: Voice + AI toys for kids
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