Put AI to work in your business

It searches SAM.gov for federal contract postings that match your business codes, drops ones already awarded, expired, or reserved for others, and ranks what's left as pursue, consider, or skip. A fuller version also reads each bid document, estimates what it's worth, and drafts a proposal for the owner to approve before anything is sent.

Best for: Small government contractors, especially software or service vendors, that want to bid on federal contracts but lack days to find, read, and write each bid.

• Setup: some technical help
• Sales
• Documents & admin
• Insights & strategy

Wellyfish helps a studio owner apply to FitOn Health, a benefits network that lets members spend employer or health-plan wellness credits on classes. The owner types in the studio's name, the tool gathers public details and fills in FitOn's application form, and the owner reviews it and clicks Submit.

Best for: Small dance studios and other creative or fitness studios that are missing out on employer and health-plan wellness money because they don't know about FitOn or don't have time to apply.

• Setup: some technical help
• Marketing
• Sales
• Documents & admin

Neri Cash reads your accounting exports, bank balance, and customer emails or WhatsApp chats, then forecasts your cash for the next 13 weeks. Each morning it lists three things to do today, each with a dollar effect, a deadline, and a draft email you send yourself.

Best for: Small businesses such as importers, restaurants, shops, agencies, and contractors that worry about cash running short, late-paying customers, or making payroll.

• Setup: no code
• Finance & bookkeeping
• Insights & strategy
• Customer service

You type one line describing a job, like a broken dish machine, and an AI voice that says it's an AI phones nearby vendors for you. A few minutes later you get a text and a web page showing who can come, when, and what they'd charge.

Best for: Small businesses such as restaurants that need a repair, supply quote, catering or rental fast and don't have time to spend an hour calling around.

• Setup: no code
• Operations
• Customer service

ALongTable lets restaurants list empty tables during slow hours, and guests book a seat at a themed, prepaid group meal. The restaurant knows the headcount and revenue ahead of time, and an AI helper can plan events for hosts and fill in a restaurant's setup from its Google Maps link.

Best for: Independent restaurants, especially in Seattle, that sit half-empty off-peak and want prepaid groups to fill slow hours.

• Setup: needs a developer
• Sales
• Marketing
• Scheduling

Preheat gathers a home bakery's preorders from its website, spreadsheets and pasted messages into one list. It then works out what to bake in whole batches, what to buy, and the real profit after discounts and Venmo fees.

Best for: Home bakers and other home food businesses that take weekly preorders across several channels and currently match orders, recipes and costs by hand in spreadsheets.

• Setup: some technical help
• Operations
• Finance & bookkeeping
• Customer service

The owner says or types a change like a new price, new hours or a refund rule, and Clark records it in a log. It points out when the change clashes with an earlier decision and writes a checklist of what to update plus a message for staff.

Best for: New owners of cafés, bakeries, salons and pop-up shops who make many quick decisions about prices, hours, menus and refunds without writing them down.

• Setup: no code
• Operations
• Documents & admin

You describe your business in plain words and your city or ZIP code, and it shows open state and local government jobs on a map of Washington. Each job is labeled Good fit, Possible fit, Needs review or Not a fit, with the reasons, plus the agency's contact details and a way to book a call with a contracting expert.

Best for: Small contractors and trade crews, such as paving, landscaping or janitorial businesses, that want to bid on public jobs but can't keep checking hundreds of agency websites.

• Setup: no code
• Sales
• Insights & strategy

BizOS lets an owner write their business rules once in simple text files, then has AI helpers for customer support, sales, accounting and new-hire training follow those rules. Messages from every channel land in one inbox, and anything risky, like a $120 refund, waits for the owner to approve on their phone.

Best for: Small businesses of any kind where the owner personally handles customer messages, approvals and staff questions and wants to only deal with the exceptions.

• Setup: needs a developer
• Customer service
• Sales
• Hiring & HR

Crumbs looks at reviews, menus and listings for nearby competitors and turns them into a dashboard with comparisons, alerts and suggested things to try, such as a product that's getting attention at a nearby shop. The prototype also has a customer-facing neighborhood map with review summaries, and it still uses sample data, with live connections and the full workflow not yet verified.

Best for: Independent restaurants, cafés and bakeries whose owners are too busy to research nearby competitors or work out what customers want.

• Setup: needs a developer
• Insights & strategy
• Marketing
• Operations

You snap a photo of a supply invoice, type a list, or say it out loud, and the tool looks up the same items at real online stores. It shows the cheapest store for each item with a link, and how much you'd save per order, per month and per year.

Best for: Cafés, salons, small shops and similar businesses that reorder the same supplies from one supplier every month and don't have time to compare prices.

• Setup: no code
• Finance & bookkeeping
• Operations

Each day it picks a few people from your LinkedIn and phone contacts to reach out to, explains why, and writes a message in your own voice. It helps you either make an introduction for someone or ask for a meeting or intro, and you send each message yourself.

Best for: Consultants, contractors, coaches, agencies and other service businesses that get new clients through referrals and need to keep in touch with people they already know.

• Setup: no code
• Sales
• Marketing
• Insights & strategy

Turns a pile of your notes, customer reviews, or website pages into a single visual map where similar items sit together in named groups. You can hover over any dot to read the original comment, and it also writes a short report listing what to fix first.

Best for: Suits owners with lots of customer reviews, notes, or documents, such as cafés, consultants, or service shops, who want to see what customers are saying or what topics they know well.

• Setup: some technical help
• Insights & strategy
• Customer service
• Documents & admin

A clinic uploads its insurers' drug coverage policy PDFs, and the tool turns each one into a short set of plain-language questions for the patient. The patient's answers produce a checklist of which insurer requirements they seem to meet, a summary to discuss with their prescriber, and a checklist the office can paste into a prior-authorization request.

Best for: Medical clinics and prescribers' offices that want patients to understand what their insurer requires before a medication is prescribed, and that want to cut down on prior-authorization back-and-forth.

• Setup: some technical help
• Customer service
• Documents & admin

It interviews you about your business and researches your market, then works out which customer groups to go after and what to say to them. It tests your current headline against alternatives on simulated customers built from real customer quotes, and suggests a cheap real-world test to run this week.

Best for: Small businesses and founders without marketing staff, such as a bakery adding catering or a gym repositioning, who are choosing a target customer or ad message and don't want to guess.

• Setup: some technical help
• Marketing
• Sales
• Insights & strategy

When a death occurs, a hospital or family member starts a case, and the tool reads the intake paperwork to recommend funeral homes. The family signs up through a dedicated link to the home they choose.

Best for: Family-run funeral homes, and the hospitals and families who need help finding one soon after a death.

• Setup: needs a developer
• Sales
• Customer service
• Documents & admin

Turns a contractor's folder of construction photos and drone footage into short Instagram videos with titles and a spoken voiceover, and can post them to Instagram. A second part answers Instagram messages and comments, collects project details from leads, books consultations on Google Calendar, and hands off to the team without quoting prices.

Best for: Home builders and contractors with a large library of project photos and video who want more leads from Instagram but have little time for marketing and follow-up.

• Setup: needs a developer
• Marketing
• Sales
• Scheduling

Leadline finds local businesses that match a customer you describe in one sentence, then looks on their websites for an email address and the owner's name. It checks the email can receive mail and writes a first email for you to review and send from your own email app.

Best for: Small businesses that sell to other local businesses and spend hours searching maps and websites for new customers and the right person to contact.

• Setup: some technical help
• Sales
• Marketing

Lets a therapist paste in a note they like and have an AI model that runs on their own computer learn that style, then write session notes in it. The therapist can adjust the template by typing plain-language changes, save versions, and roll back, and no session data leaves the machine.

Best for: Therapists and counselors in private practice who want session notes written in their own style without sending client information to an online service.

• Setup: some technical help
• Documents & admin

Texts the customer a private link where they upload photos of the problem and answer a few short questions, then gives the technician a one-screen brief with the equipment, likely causes, and what to bring. It can also draft an estimate from the owner's own price list that the owner approves before the customer sees it.

Best for: Small home-service shops such as HVAC, plumbing, and electrical contractors who lose time and money on a second visit because they arrived without the right part.

• Setup: needs a developer
• Operations
• Customer service
• Sales

Send Check reads an email draft written with AI and tells you whether to send it as is, fix it, or scrap it, and it suggests a corrected version for you to approve. For a mailing list, it splits your customers into groups, like recent buyers or people who haven't visited in a year, and checks the email from each group's side. It never sends anything itself.

Best for: Small businesses that use AI to write customer emails such as price increases, apologies, win-back offers, invoice reminders or cold outreach, and want a check before sending to a whole customer list.

• Setup: some technical help
• Marketing
• Customer service
• Documents & admin

Checks every payment an AI assistant tries to make against your QuickBooks bills and your own list of approved supplier accounts, and stops ones that look wrong, like a new bank account or a look-alike email address. After each task it gives a verdict per bill (verified, issues found, not paid) by comparing a tamper-proof log with your books, including whether the AI's own summary matches what happened.

Best for: Small businesses that use QuickBooks Online and want to let an AI assistant pay supplier bills without checking every payment by hand, such as bakeries, shops, and contractors.

• Setup: some technical help
• Finance & bookkeeping
• Operations