Best AI tools for small businesses

Build a website with AI - Wally the website assistant

Building and maintaining a website can be daunting, but it doesn't have to be with Wally, the website assistant. Wally is here to help you grow your business online. You can speak to him using your voice and text to provide information about your business and website. Wally will then do the rest. He will research your audience, industry and competitors to find out what works/ doesn't work. He will then design and develop your perfect website based on your information. Making changes is easy; you just create tasks for Wally to complete. If you need help growing, Wally will work alongside your business to help you create action plans to reach your goals.

Benefits for your business

Extremely cost-effective: Wally can carry out the same functions and processes as a team of designers, developers and marketers, but because it uses AI is highly cost-effective. Wally will also work alongside your business to reach your goals.

Scalable: Wally is highly scalable. You can start with just a few website pages and scale your website to become a digital asset to your company. You can integrate APIs and develop new features. If you can dream it, you can build it with Wally, the website assistant.

Increased website visitors: A website without traffic is an online brochure. The most cost-effective way to bring traffic to your website is using organic methods such as Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). Wally will work alongside your business to create action plans to rank your business on Google for the terms you seek.

Peace of mind: Wally has the highest level of security. Your website is separated from the Wally management system to keep your business information and client data safe. Wally also provides support available throughout your journey ( both humans and AI) and monitors your website to deliver 99.9% uptime.

Improved customer experience: Wally designs and develops your website based on your audience, industry and competitors to predict the best experience for your customer. He will continue to monitor the website and make changes to help them reach their goals faster to improve their experience and increase your brand.

Easy to use: Wally is straightforward and requires no technical experience. You can talk or type to him - just like an employee.

Limitations

Wally, the website assistant, has no real limitations. It can do anything you ask of it. However, it is still in beta, and the prices are premium compared to DIY website builders. There is a free website landing page product coming soon.

Generate images from text with Dall-e

Dall-e is a cloud-based text-to-art generator. OpenAI developed it to take natural language prompts and generate an image. You can try Dall-e for free. All you need to do is create an account, enter a prompt you want to see and hit generate. It will generate a variety of images. You can tailor the prompts by adding your preferred art style or descriptive adjectives.

Benefits for your business

Easy to use: Dall-es interface is intuitive and easy to use, as you only need to know how to describe the image you want to create.

Speed: Dalle is extremely quick. It can generate a high-quality image in just a few seconds compared to other tools, which can take longer.

Variety: Dalle will display four images for you to choose from. These images allow you to see the different styles and select your favourite. You can also use the variations created to tailor your prompt and try again. It also has native editing tools which allow you to replace different elements within the photo to make it more bespoke to your needs.

Limitations

No conversation: Dalle is not a chat agent, which means you cannot talk back and forth with it. It is one prompt to generate, which means it can take a few attempts before you receive the image you would like.

Restricted: Dalle is learning every day, but there are some concepts it still struggles to create, such as human faces and text.

Get help and information quickly with Bard

Bard is a large language model, also known as a conversational AI or chatbot, trained to be informative and comprehensive. Bard is trained on a large volume of text data, and he can communicate and generate a human-like text response to a wide variety of text-based prompts or queries. He can provide all sorts of information, such as stories, summarises, tables, and even code!

Benefits of Bard

Availability: Bard can be used across a variety of devices, including your mobile, tablet and desktop, allowing you to continue your conversation from anywhere.

Save time: Bard is not designed to replace the human creative process but aid it. You can quickly research and find the points you need to cover for your creative piece by asking him prompts and questions.

Easy to use: Bard is highly user-friendly. Its interface is a messenger box for people to use, just like any other messaging platform.

Limitations

Not always correct: Bard is trained on the reinforcement of data, and the information it finds online and from conversations with people is only sometimes accurate. Google recommends checking bard information for search.

Restricted: Although bard can achieve many things, such as writing poems, songs, stories, social media posts and more. He can still need help with some items, such as finding and generating correct articles and quotes that individuals have said.

Bard is still underdeveloped and is expected to improve with time.

Check your written content with Grammarly

Grammarly is a great AI writing assistant that helps read and check your written content for spelling, punctuation and grammar errors. Small businesses can use this AI tool to improve the quality of their written communication, save time, increase productivity and enhance brand consistency. Using it requires a paid account. You can download the browser extension, and it will work over the top of your email and software applications.

Benefits for your business

Improves communication: Your business can improve written communication by using Grammarly to identify and correct grammar, spelling, punctuation and style errors in written documents.

Save time: Grammarly saves you time by automatically checking your written content for errors. This means you and your team can save time proofing and checking documents.

Increased productivity: Grammarly can help you be more productive by freeing up your time to work on other tasks.

Brand Consistency: Grammarly can help ensure your written content is consistent in terms of tone, style and formatting. This can help build a stronger brand identity and make your business more memorable to customers.

Limitations

Not a substitute for human writing: Grammarly is an AI tool which can help you improve your writing, but it cannot replace the judgement of a human reader or editor. A human can help you pick up errors Grammarly may have missed and improve the clarity of your written content.

It’s still learning: Grammarly is still learning, and allow it can improve your written content. It can make mistakes when it comes to more complex grammar of specialised writing. It is essential to still proofread your work carefully after using Grammarly to ensure you catch any errors it may have missed.

Create videos easily with Pictory

There are several AI video-making tools on the market, and the one you choose will be based on your industry, budget and requirement. Pictory is one of these AI tools that allows users to create videos from scratch or existing content. The tool offers a variety of features, including text-to-video, voiceovers and video editing. Pictory is also cloud-based, which means users can create videos from anywhere. It is straightforward to use, even for people without video editing experience.

Benefits of Pictory for your small business

Easy to use: Pictory is easy to use even if you have no prior video editing experience. It is easy to turn text into voiceovers, choose content for your video or upload your own.

Variety: Pictory offers a variety of features that can help you create engaging videos, such as text-to-video, voiceovers and video editing.

Affordable: Pictory is a relatively affordable tool, especially when compared to the cost of hiring a video production team.

Limitations

The video quality may vary: Pictory will use the images and text you input into the tool; thus, if you have poor-quality images or content, this will be reflected in the final product.

Slow: Pictory can be slower than other video editors, and the time increases for complex and longer-length videos.

Limited stock: They have limited stock videos and images, which can cause uniformity between your video and other users. You can get around this by finding and supplying your own stock images and videos. We have no doubt their stock range will increase with time.