30 best AI marketing tools I'm using to get ahead in 2026

It's pretty obvious that AI tools have taken not only marketer by storm, but the tech industry in general.

Is it all hype?

Will we see a bubble burst like we did 26 years ago?

It's tough to tell. But one thing I'm certain about — AI marketing is the future for how we connect with our target audiences.

While AI today is simply just complex machine learning, the future of AI marketing software is bright.

I've been constantly testing and using different AI tools in my marketing stack for the past 3 years, and every once in a while I come back to this article to update it with any new tools I find myself using often.

If you look at some other posts on this subject, they've been totally copying me and trying to feed you a bunch of results influenced by sponsorhsups.

But this post is different.

These are the best AI tools I ACTUALLY use (and none are sponsored). And if you watch my YouTube video below, you'll see the ones I use the most (and how). The last one in the video is the one I use the most.

Alright, let's go over some of my favorite tools and how I think AI can be applied to different areas of your marketing stack.

What is AI used for in marketing?

In 2026, marketing is all about having the right data, giving AI instructions on how to interpret that data, and creating AI agents that can help you execute based on the first two. This data can be first-party analytics, third-party data sources, information on your competitors, on market trends, and on what your customers (and potential customers) are saying about your product. There’s a lot of information out there but it’s hard to manually source.

Now, AI search engines like Perplexity or Google's AI Mode make this process much simpler. And then, we combine this with agents and all the sudden we have a new wave of productivity tools that coulnd't exist before.

Here are some ways my friends and clients are using AI in marketing:

• Sentiment analysis on social media to aggregate positive and critical product reviews with tools like Gumloop.
• Automating competitor intelligence reports to stay up to date with what rival brands are doing. You can improve the ROI of your marketing campaigns with better targeting.
• AI workflows to write creative copy, helping you keep up with the internet’s incessant demand for content (SEO optimization).
• Video editing and content creation workflows with tools like Midjourney and Crayo.
• Automating and presenting report with things like Claude Artifacts.
• Ad creation automation with tools like Arcads.

And a ton more we'll get into in this article.

It’s likely that you’ll use more than one AI-powered software solution. In fact, most data manipulation tools now use the power of machine-learning and automation to achieve impressive results at scale. In this rundown of some of the best AI-driven apps and platforms, I’ll explain exactly what each one does, what its benefits are, as well as any limitations it might have.

Prefer to watch my top favorite tools? Check out my video:

For those that like to read, keep scrolling.

What are AI marketing tools?

AI marketing tools are software platforms that integrate with LLMs and your existing marketing workflows, using MCP (Model Context Protocol), to help automate internal workflows for marketers. These tools can help you either create something new, using AI, or take your automation skills to the next level without needing to be an AI Engineer.

At first, many of these AI tools seemed to just be using regular machine learning algorithms that had nothing to do with modern day "AI". But now, many of them leverage large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok, to give your existing workflows a layer of intelligence we have never seen before. It's actually quite amazing.

There's now this wave of new AI tools and marketing automation platforms that are changing the way teams think about productivity. Even Tobi, CEO of Shopify, sent a memo saying that all employees need leverage AI tools in some way. So it's no longer something we can turn a blind eye too (even though I did for some time).

Okay, let's check out the tools!

30 best AI marketing tools to grow your business in 2026

Here are the best AI tools for marketing you need to try in 2026:

1. Gumloop (for agentic AI automations)
2. Claude (for any marketing task)
3. Surfer SEO (for content optimization)
4. v0 (for building websites)
5. Google Labs (for free AI tools)
6. Kling AI (for generating AI videos)
7. ‍Notion AI (for productivity)
8. Jasper AI (for copywriting)
9. Lexica Art (for blog thumbnails)
10. LALAL.AI (for audio recordings)
11. Crayo (for short-form videos)‍
12. Brandwell (for generating SEO blog posts)‍
13. Originality AI (for AI content detection)‍
14. Writer.com (content writing for teams)‍
15. Undetectable AI (for rewriting AI content)
16. ContentShake AI (for SEO blog writing)
17. FullStory (for digital experiences)‍
18. Zapier (for automating tasks)‍
19. Hemingway app (for content editing)‍
20. Chatfuel (for chatbots)‍
21. Grammarly (for content editing)‍
22. Albert.ai (for digital advertising)‍
23. Paradigm AI (for AI data research)‍
24. Userbot.ai (conversation management)‍
25. Browse AI (for scarping web pages)‍
26. Algolia (for search and recommendation APIs)‍
27. PhotoRoom (for removing image backgrounds)‍
28. Reply.io's AI Sales Email Assistant (for email replies)‍
29. Brand24 (for media monitoring)‍
30. Influencity (for influencer marketing)

Okay, let’s dive a bit deeper into each one.

1. Gumloop (best for AI automations)

Gumloop is the most underrated AI tool on the market right now. Founded just a year ago by two Canadian prodigies, this AI automation tool has quickly won my heart.

They're used by teams at Webflow, Instacart, Shopify, and a ton more.

If you’re familiar with Zapier, this tool is like that but with an AI layer over it. It’s like if Zapier and ChatGPT had a baby.

Gumloop lets you connect any LLM model (like ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, etc.) to your internal tools and workflows — without writing a single line of code.

The UI (user interface) is so tasteful and clean and it’s actually nice to look at and use. And the amazing thing too is that you don’t need your own OpenAI or Anthropic API keys — Gumloop gives you access to premium LLMs right out of the box and they eat the costs. It’s all baked in. And now with Gumloop's MCP launch, it's become one of the best AI tools for startups and marketing teams (hence why so many big tech companies are starting to use it).

I already wrote a full Gumloop review if you want a deeper dive. I also put it head-to-head with n8n (another popular AI automation tool) in this Gumloop vs n8n comparison, which breaks down exactly where each tool shines.

Here are a few reasons why I’ve been using Gumloop:

• Built-in access to the latest AI models: No need for API keys or surprise billing.
• Beautiful interface: It’s like a modern Zapier, but with smoother UX and more flexibility for AI workflows.
• Powerful web and app scraping: Easily scrape content from sites and add them to tools like Notion, Slack, or Google Sheets to feed into your workflows.
• Continuous AI agents: Set up automations that run continuously and act on new data in real-time. This is great for sales, research, or admin tasks.

If you’re looking for a real AI marketing tool, this is it. They’re not paying me to say this, but I reached out to Max, the CEO of Gumloop, and he gave me a 20% off coupon code to give to my readers (Code: MARKETERMILK).

I love the tool so much I went to San Francisco to meet the team and took this photo of myself in their office (lol).

Anyways, it's a great tool and the free plan is super generours. If you want to upgrade to get more credits, use code MARKETERMILK at checkout and you’ll get 20% off your monthly plan.

2. Claude (for any marketing task)

I’ve been a Claude customer for almost 3 years now, but in the past 6 months I’ve found myself using it more and more as a marketing copilot. And I’m sure you’ve already heard a lot about it online. Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Skills, MCP, all that jazz.

As a marketer, there are two ways I use Claude. First is the desktop app where I can create projects for my different “workspaces.” For example, I create a project for each client I work with. And then I create skills for different marketing and SEO tasks.

From there, I add those skills as instructions in my projects.

And then I connect MCP servers for tools like Webflow, Google Drive, or Ahrefs. And I ask the Claude agent anything related to what I’m working on. And it automatically knows which skills to refer to and activate.

I actually wrote a blog post (and made a YouTube video) on exactly how I do this for creating a content strategy for SEO and AEO. You can check it out here.

The other way I use Claude is as a coding assistant through Claude Code. I integrate it with Cursor, and from there, I create internal tools. For example, I built a tool to help me know what content I need to update (both for my own websites and for my client site). For example, this article is one that my internal tool told me to refresh for 2026.

Super powerful stuff! I’m personally building a lot of AI agents now for my marketing tasks. Most of the stuff out there on AI marketing is fugazi, but if you want to learn how I’m using it, I recently made a post on my SEO AI agent use cases you can check out.

And if you’re using Claude for your marketing efforts and want to bounce ideas, shoot me a DM on LinkedIn.

3. Surfer SEO (for content optimization)

Surfer SEO is a content optimization tool that helps you create copy for ranking on search engines — a worthy goal for any content strategy. While you do the writing, Surfer assesses and scores your content according to its keyword density, readability, length, use of headers, and other aspects which push content up the rankings.

To use Surfer SEO, first you choose your domain, niche, and target audience. The system will then give you actionable insights by highlighting the top-ranking keywords, suggest a content outline structure, and even define image density for your piece. You can work directly on Surfer SEO, which has its own text editor, or copy-paste for quick analysis. As you edit your work, you’ll see the SEO improving in real time.

Integrations are available with other content marketing tools like Jasper, WordPress, Google Docs, and more. Surfer SEO promises hit your organic growth metrics for Google search, and satisfied clients include FedEx, Shopify, Quantas, and Viacom.

4. v0 (for building websites)

If you read my marketing trends 2026 post, you’ll know that the biggest thing I’ve been seeing is that marketers are becoming product builders and managers. “Im not technical” is no longer an excuse for marketers.

But now with the rise of tools like Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Claude Code, and v0, us marketers have the power to build software simply by talking to a chatbot. I spent a good amount of time this year testing every AI website builder I could and the one I keep coming back to is v0 by Vercel.

It’s my favorite tool for prototyping and designing landing pages. V0 is built for frontend developers so it has a strong focus on design and UI. I often get a way better looking landing page design from v0 than I do from any other vibe coding tool.

Give it a try, it’s completely free to start using. And you’ll only have to pay once you start prompting it a lot. Their $20/month plan is plenty to build websites and prototype your own apps that look really good.

There’s also a template marketplace where you can see what others have built. And you’ll notice how tasteful all the designs are.

5. Google Labs (for free AI tools)

Do not sleep on Google this year. I truly believe they will lead in the AI race. And they quietly keep launching AI tools for marketers, designers, and developers. But no one talks about it. And most of them are free to use!

There are a ton of tools in Google Labs, but one I’ve been experimenting with is Pomelli. The tool basically slurps up your website and mimics its design system to create content for your brand.

It can create really cool on-brand Instagram ads and give you a lot of inspo if you’re a performance marketer wanting to run static image ads. You can also use it to create organic content, but I find it a great use case for DTC brands running ads.

You can give it images of your product or just have it look at the design of your website and it will generate some amazing results. We all know how amazing Nano Banana and Google Gemini Pro are for design and image generation. This tool is definitely on that level. ANd there are other companies out there building a similar tool but charging a ton for it.

Again, don’t sleep on the AI tools from Google.

6. Kling AI (for generating AI videos)

If you’re a fan of video generation or looking to create AI video ads, you have to check out Kling AI. It’s a platform that lets you orchestrate workflows for creating AI videos. It’s a full AI creative studio.

In fact, many of the AI video ads that are crushing it are made with Kling AI. Some of the top performance marketers I’ve talked to launching AI ads use a combination of Claude for writing scripts, Kling AI for generating video snippets, ElevenLabs for text-to-speech voice overs, and then enhancing everything with Topaz Labs.

It’s a full suite for AI video creators, and Kling AI is at the center of it all. Definitely give this one a test drive and play around with the models. To get the best outputs, use Claude or ChatGPT to create prompts that you then give Kling AI.

I also want to note that Kling AI has its own video models that keep getting better. But if you want to use other models like Google’s Veo or OpenAI’s Sora video models, then you should check out Higgsfield. The platform is similar to Kling AI but is video model agnostic. Kling does feel a bit easier to use though.

7. Notion AI (for productivity)

Notion AI is a cool new feature that Notion recently added to their popular AI productivity platform. It uses AI to make getting stuff done in Notion a breeze. Basically, you can ask questions in plain English about anything in your Notion workspace — whether it's your notes, projects, docs or wikis — and Notion AI will automatically pull up the answer. It's like having a personal assistant built into the project management tool.

The AI can also help you write, brainstorm ideas, summarize information, fill out tables automatically, and more. So it takes a lot of the manual busywork out of using Notion.

This feature costs either $8 or $10 per member per month depending on if you pay annually or monthly. It's available for any paid Notion plan, and can even be added to free plans.

Notion takes privacy and security seriously too. Your data is encrypted and they comply with data protection laws like GDPR. The AI doesn't use customer data to train itself unless you specifically opt-in to that.

You can try Notion AI free for a while, with the number of free responses you get depending on your workspace membership. The plan is for the AI integration to expand over time and add even more capabilities. Since it works seamlessly with Notion's existing text editor and features, it should feel like a natural upgrade.

The bottom line is that Notion AI makes it even easier to stay organized and work smarter using this popular tool. The AI handles a lot of tedious tasks so you can focus on getting meaningful work done.

8. Jasper AI (for copywriting)

The people behind Jasper, the best-known of the various AI-powered copywriting systems, quickly became a victim of their own success. Marvel sent them a cease-and-desist letter after they had secured more than 350,000 users. Their AI was previously known as Jarvis, cheekily inspired by Tony Stark (AKA Iron Man)’s virtual assistant. And so, Jasper was reborn.

Jasper, this human writer must grudgingly accept, is remarkably good at creating copy, in a range of tones and styles, on any topic you can throw at it. Its creators say it has “read” 10% of the internet. How well does Jasper work?  Using a free trial, I asked Jasper to write 40 words about AI in business automation. It came up with:

Artificial intelligence is the next step in business automation. AI had been instrumental in improving business processes. AI can be deployed to an organization’s business process for a particular strategic purpose to increase efficiencies, cut costs and improve customer service.

This is certainly a decent start, although you still require human intervention to make sense of the flow of the copy, and there’s an element of repetition. Jasper’s natural language processing is perhaps best seen as a tool to create early drafts for later polishing by human copywriters.

Whether you’re looking to write copy for email campaigns, product descriptions for ecommerce products, blog posts, or landing page copy, Jasper can do it all.

It has a simple and intuitive dashboard, is inexpensive to implement, and will certainly speed up the content creation process. Jasper, which boasts over 5,000 5-star product reviews, won’t turn you into Tolstoy, but it will keep those vital SEO page scores high.

9. Lexica Art (for blog thumbnails)

Lexica Art is a high-quality AI image generator that's one of the best I've seen. It's one of the first generative AI tools I actually found useful for generating images. Itcreates some of the most realistic AI images and you can generate marketing content for almost anything. I've personally used this generative AI-powered tool to create blog thumbnail images for my SEO (search engine optimization) clients. There are different prompts you can use and save so all the images it generates are "on brand" with whatever brand guidelines you have. Some brands even use it for their social media posts.

If you're looking to move away from standard stock images for your blog thumbnails, this is a tool you definitely need to check out.

10. LALAL.AI (for recording audio)

On the surface, LALAL.AI looks like a tool for musicians not marketers. But this tool is actually great for anyone who records any audio for things like a podcast or YouTube video. If you live in a loud city like me, recording videos can get frustrating. With LALAL.AI I can record a video and then upload the audio file to this tool and it automatically removes all of the background nice — without lowering the quality of my voice (which is what most tools end up doing).

This is an amazing tool for video marketers and I definitely recommend you give it a try if you find yourself getting frustrated with background noises in your recordings.

11. Crayo (for short-form videos)

If you're creating short form videos for TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts, Crayo is a tool you definitely want to check out.

The platform was started by Musa and Daniel — two big YouTube creators who are known for generating millions from faceless YouTube channels (and for mentoring some of the biggest short-form video creators out there). The tool aims at streamlining the video creation process by helping you ideate, produce, and generate videos made to go viral.

If you have a marketing strategy around using voiceovers and graphics to tell stories your target audience would be interested in, Crayo could help you produce those videos a lot faster.

12. Brandwell (for generating SEO blog posts)

Brandwell (formerly Content at Scale) is a platform I've been experimenting with for the past few months and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed. Out of all the AI writing tools that I've used, this is one of the few that passes AI detectors. Any time I generate an article with this tool, and run it through an AI detector, it usually comes out at least 70% human-written — which is quite impressive.

The platform is still quite new and the UI can be a bit buggy. But the content it generates is some of the best I've seen when it comes to AI content generation. It's not as flexible like Surfer is in terms of being able to label H2 and H3 headings in your articles, but the actual content it generates is a bit more higher quality than that of Surfer and even Jasper. I definitely recommend playing around with this tool if you're looking to generate SEO blog posts. Of course, you always want a real human to review the final draft.

13. Originality AI (for AI content detection)

Originality AI is an AI content detector and plagiarism tool. I run almost every piece of content through this tool these days to make sure it passes has being written by a human. Of course, I won't run actual human writing through it. But I'll generally run AI generated content, from a tool like Content at Scale, through this just to double check what areas need some work.

This is also a good tool to run your content through if you're working with freelance writers and want to make sure they're not using ChatGPT to generate large portions of text. Of course, take these detectors with a grain of salt. There have been reports of it falsely accusing human writing as AI writing. But, out of most of the AI content detectors out there, I found this one to be one of the best.

14. Writer (content writing for teams)

First off, Writer has secured a high value URL, indicating lofty ambitions. They position their platform as a writer’s assistant for marketing teams. Writer is a collaborative efficiency tool which takes some of the features of a traditional text editor like Word and turbocharges them.

Features include autocorrect, autocomplete, grammar and clarity checks, and there are often-used snippets to paste in. There’s also a suite of intelligence tools to maintain house style, including a database of approved terminology (vital for tech, legal and financial firms). Their AI features are light touch, sitting in the background making recommendations rather than rewriting block of copy.

When you have a virtual or hybrid team working with minimal in-person supervision, this AI writer could provide all the reassurance you need that your copy remains professional and accurate across all uses. Clients include Deloitte, Accenture, Twitter and Vistaprint.

15. Undetectable AI (for rewriting AI content)

Undetectable AI is another AI content detector similar to Originality AI. What makes this one different is that it can actually rewrite AI generate content from ChatGPT to make it sound like a human. I've tested this by creating a paragraph of text in ChatGPT, running it through Undetectable AI to rewrite it, then double checking it with Originality AI. To my surprise, it does a pretty good job.

Again, you want to take these AI detectors and rewriters with a grain of salt. Sometimes this tool will rewrite things that don't totally make sense. Or it will purposely mess up in terms of grammar. So, you'll still want to read everything it generates to make sure there are no errors.

16. ContentShake AI (for SEO blog writing)

ContentShake AI is an AI optimization tool for those who work in SEO and content marketing. What makes the tool unique compared to other content optimizations tools is that it combines the power of LLMs, and SEO data from Semrush, to help you create SEO optimized web pages.

The tool starts by giving you trending topics in your niche, then you can generate detailed SEO content outline, and from there you can write full blog posts in multiple languages — all within the same interface.

The main selling point is that it uses Semrush’s data to give you an optimization score that gives you tips on how to rank for more keywords in one blog post. It also helps you improve the readability of your content with one-click rewrite options.

What I also find impressive is how it handles brand voice. You can upload your writing samples, and ContentShake will create a tone that mirrors your style (or your brand’s). Whether you’re writing for a creator media company or a serious B2B company, it customizes the tone to match your persona.

Here are some of the tool highlights:

• AI + SEO insights in one: Combines real Semrush keyword and competitor data with LLM-powered writing to help you create content that actually ranks.
• One-click SEO blog posts: Generate full-length, optimized articles (in 7 languages) from a single prompt.
• Brand voice customization: Upload writing samples or choose a persona to make sure every piece sounds like you (or your brand).
• Direct publishing & sharing: Push articles to Google Docs or publish straight to WordPress.

So ya, if you’re looking for a tool to help you write better SEO copy, this is one to definitely check out.

17. Fullstory (for digital experiences)

By digital experience, Fullstory mean the journey a site visitor goes through from their first visit to conversion (or dismissal). They make the valuable point that you can learn a huge amount from the unpredictable things users do, which couldn’t have been anticipated.

To make this level of insight possible, Fullstory employ an AI to track every cursor move, click, and page visit across a visitor’s journey to create their “story”. This can then be compared with thousands of other visitors’ stories to derive insight. Fullstory leverage the processing power and scalability of AI automation to discover opportunities and errors much more quickly than any human observer would.

Fullstory claim users will make cost savings, retain more customers, and improve the UX of their site significantly. Their current client roster includes GAP, Zipcar, Icelandair, and Forbes.

18. Zapier (for automating tasks)

Zapier is really the Lego of tech stack and process integration. It's the OG of AI agent platforms. Using it you can build connections and marketing automations between thousands of different systems, saving time, promoting efficiency, reducing repetitive tasks, and making cost savings. You build customized workflows to link actions in one system to automated processes in one or more others. The salient data is pulled from the right place each time.

These automations can be written without coding, and there are templates to speed things up. Zapier calls its automations zaps, and it features over 3,000 integrations at time of writing. You can even create branching workflows, dependent on logical criteria you set.

The AI is at work behind the scenes interpreting signals which trigger processes with a speed and efficiency no human team could master. Clients rave about the time savings these zaps create. There’s excellent support too, including a blog, webinars, online no-code community, and Zapier University for training.

19. Hemingway App (for content editing)

Even if you only want to use human writers to create your copy, AI can at least help edit it for maximum readability and clarity. Named after a writer who was famously sparing with words, Hemingway highlights aspects of “poor” style including overlong sentences, passive voice, and excessive adverb use.

Hemingway also awards a readability score, based upon US educational grades. To reach the largest audience, grade 9 or lower is considered ideal. It’s exceptionally easy to use — just copy and paste your text into the online app and hit return.

Best of all — it’s free! The app was created by Ben and Adam Long in emulation of their favourite writer. Although there’s a $20 version including PDF exports, offline usability and instant publish features, the free version is still immensely useful.

That said, a perfectly optimized Hemingway piece might feel too simplistic for some purposes, such as annual reports, white papers, opinion pieces and other types of writing where personal style carries more weight than raw readability.

20. Chatfuel (for chatbots)

Vital AI assistants or irritating nuisance — whatever you think of AI chatbots, they are here to stay. Of course, a chatbot’s usefulness depends upon how you build it, which is where Chatfuel comes in. Rather than buying an off-the-shelf solution, the platform allows you to create a bespoke virtual personality yourself, using an intuitive drag and drop interface.

Whether you’re looking to replace a mundane FAQ page or drive potential leads down the funnel by offering discount codes, Chatfuel’s bots are remarkably good at interpreting even misspelt or non-grammatical responses. The AI here is doing a lot of sophisticated linguistic processing and it can easily spot keywords which trigger appropriate and helpful responses.

They’re an official partner with Meta (formerly Facebook), which should provide some reassurance that their AI is top-flight.

21. Grammarly (for content editing)

Like Hemingway, Grammarly will also analyze your content for ways in which it can be improved. Unlike Hemingway, it doesn’t make so many assumptions about style, and focuses its attention instead on traditional rules of syntax and grammar.

One great feature is that you can use Grammarly whilst working in many different apps, including Gmail, Word, Twitter, Facebook and more. Its AI will highlight errors and suggest corrections, which you are free to adopt or ignore. Going beyond mere grammar and punctuation, Grammarly can spot redundant words, inconsistencies in style and offer word choice alternatives.

It works by highlighting and color-coding errors or potential improvements (similar to Hemingway) and has been featured in such august publications as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and Forbes.

22. Albert.ai (for digital advertising)

Advertising is inherently hit-and-miss, or at least it was prior to the dawn of AI. Albert personalizes and optimizes ad content at scale, across social media and paid search platforms, including Facebook, YouTube, Google Ads, Bing and more. Albert call their methodology “data-powered creativity”, and founder Om Shani believes in using AI and automation to free up human creatives to make campaigns that connect on a human level.

Albert.ai functions as a laboratory for testing and tweaking campaigns to take advantage of unseen channel opportunities, unthought of demographics or new markets. It helps make ad campaigns more relevant and lest wasteful.

Albert’s adopters include Crabtree & Evelyn, Telenor, and Harley Davidson. The latter enjoyed a five-fold swell in site traffic and an enormous 2,930% increase in leads per month.

23. Paradigm AI (for AI data research)

Paradigm is a new AI platform I have been playing around with and it is super impressive. If you have used Clay for outbound stuff, think of Paradigm as a more horizontal version of that. It works for marketing, sales, recruiting, finance, consulting, and pretty much any role that involves researching and enriching data at scale.

You upload a spreadsheet (or start from scratch), add custom columns powered by AI agents, and those agents go out and research the web to fill in the data you need. It basically summarizes and pulls in information from across the internet based on your text prompts. So instead of manually Googling and copy-pasting stuff into a spreadsheet for hours, you let AI agents do it in minutes.

What I really like about Paradigm is that it feels like an all-in-one workspace for research-heavy marketing tasks. You can build a list of companies in a specific niche, enrich a list of prospects with firmographic data, analyze competitors or score leads, and a ton more. And everything lives in a collaborative spreadsheet that your whole team can work in together.

The whole experience feels like working in Google Workspace but with AI agents retrieving data for you. The platform is free to start using, so I would recommend just signing up and testing it with a small dataset. Once you see how fast the AI agents pull in research, you will get why I am excited about this one.

24. Userbot.ai (for conversation management)

At first Userbot might seem like just another chatbot but it’s much cleverer than that. When Userbot can’t parse a customer’s query, it hands over to a human operator but continues to monitor and learn from the rest of the conversation. Userbot then uses what it learns to improve and add the new user query to its repertoire.

Over time, therefore, Userbot should become more and more intuitive and effective, although you may still have to reply on human operators a fair bit when you first implement it. I tried it with the question “who are your top clients?” and it was unable to provide a meaningful response. For the record, they include Aboca, SSG, and Vivactis Group.

The system provides useful customer data, which you can use to monitor the effectiveness of your sales team or customer support department (it also integrates with many popular CRM platforms).

25. Browse AI (for scraping web pages)

If you do any kind of competitive research, you know how tedious it is to manually check competitor websites for pricing changes, new product launches, or customer reviews. Browse AI lets you train a bot to do all of that for you and automatically fills in a spreadsheet with the data it finds.

For example, you could have it pull one and two star reviews from competitor products to spot gaps you can take advantage of. Or monitor pricing across a bunch of ecommerce sites without lifting a finger. The bot basically does the scraping work that would normally take hours and hands you a clean dataset.

Browse AI also claims their bots can mimic human behavior to get past Captcha and other bot detection tools. Over 2,500 companies use it including Adobe, Amazon, Salesforce, and HubSpot.

26. Algolia (for search and recommendation APIs)

Search fields can either prove really helpful or endlessly frustrating. Rather than plug-in a “powered by Google” field, why not create a bespoke search facility of your own?

This is what Algolia enables, proving especially popular with entertainment companies or ecommerce firms with large inventories. The less time visitors have to spend fruitlessly scanning your catalogue the more likely they are to buy from you.

Create your own search filter to enable your customers to find exactly what they want at lightning speed. Algolia is already incorporated into the sales portals of Staples, Gymshark, NBCUniversal, Decathlon, Lacoste, and many more.

27. PhotoRoom (for removing image backgrounds)

PhotoRoom is a simple AI tool that removes the background from any photo and leaves you with a clean transparent image you can drop into other designs. I tested it with a few of my own photos and it worked perfectly.

The tool uses AI to identify the subject of a photo and separate it from the background. What used to take a designer ten minutes of careful outlining, PhotoRoom does in seconds. You can also swap in a colored background if you need one.

It is really useful for things like creating team pages or making avatars you want to reuse across different platforms. There is a free version to start with, a premium plan for batch editing, and a mobile app if you want to do quick edits on the go.

28. Reply.io’s AI Sales Email Assistant (for email replies)

Constructing standard email responses are another marketing task which can quickly become repetitive and labor-intensive. Reply.io’s AI Sales Email Assistant aims to remove much of that drudgery. But it also has many different use cases, describing itself as a “sales engagement platform.”

While the conversion rate for email marketing campaigns may be a lowly 1.22%, that can translate to a lot of promising leads when you scale up. To make the most of this technique, which can be fully automated, you need an AI-powered email marketing tool such as Reply.io.

Build cold email drip campaigns across multiple channels and Reply will automate the rest, applying AI-powered response scoring to help identify leads which hold potential. There are a host of CRM integrations and predictive analytics tools to track the progress of your campaigns.

29. Brand24 (for media monitoring)

If you want to find out how your brand is being mentioned all over the net where do you start? Brand24 scours news sites, social media, blogs, forums, video, and other locations to aggregate mentions. It then applies sentiment analysis to identify topics of conversation and the underlying emotions of reviewers and users.

You can respond quickly to criticism and intervene with customer support issues, improving customer retention and potentially spotting product and service flaws before they become crises. Much more efficiently than a Google keyword search, Brand24 will highlight problematic mentions and great reviews, weeding out irrelevancies.

There’s a great hashtag trend-spotting feature and good customer support including blogs and masterclasses to sharpen your marketing strategy and customer service skills. Clients include Uber, Stanford University, and Intel.

30. Influencity (for influencer marketing)

The use of influencers in social media marketing has been a major trend in recent years and isn’t showing signs of slowing. Whether its hauls, product reviews, sponsorship or traditional advertising, social media influencers are big business for brands, especially those aimed at niche or younger demographics.

Influencity bills itself as the “most complete influencer marketing platform” on the market, and it’s used by such giants as WPP, Kellogg’s and Samsung. It helps brands assess and contact influencers, collaborate on campaigns and then track their effectiveness.

All the major social media platforms are covered. There are plenty of stats and the ability to work at scale across multiple brands, making this a great solution for any AI marketing agency managing influencer campaigns across clients.

AI-powered marketing is here to stay

Given the many benefits that AI algorithms can provide — scalability, reach, efficiency, cost savings, decision making, analytic power, better customer experience, and more — it’s clear that we are still only at the dawn of this AI technology revolution. Marketers have more exciting tools at their fingertips than ever before, allowing the tiniest startup to compete for global success alongside the most established brands.

Many of the above tools have freemium versions available, so be open-minded, give them a try, and they may become your best friend for future marketing efforts.