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In last week’s Tiny Empires, we reviewed Sam Altman’s Billion-Dollar-Solofounder prediction.

The key behind Sam’s prediction is AI employees running your company for you.

In today’s issue, we look at 36 tools you can use to do your work for you, broken down for each area of your business.

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Jason AI - Automates cold outreach and follow-ups across email and LinkedIn. You give it a prospect list, it writes personalized messages and tracks responses. Works well for B2B outreach if you're selling to a defined segment.

11x AI - Calls itself a "digital workers" platform. Their SDR agents handle prospecting, email sequences, and meeting booking. Pricing is per-seat like a real employee, which is either clever or annoying depending on your budget.

Relay.app - Focuses on sales and marketing workflows. You build agents that trigger actions based on CRM updates, form submissions, or calendar events. The interface is visual, not code-heavy. Good if you're connecting HubSpot, Salesforce, or Gmail.

Crystal Knows - Reads public data to build personality profiles of prospects. Then it suggests how to pitch them. Sounds gimmicky, but the tonality suggestions are often right. Use it before cold calls or when customizing outreach templates.

Drift.ai - Chatbot for your website that qualifies leads and books demos. The AI asks questions, scores visitors, and routes hot leads to your calendar. If you get decent traffic, it beats forms.

Lindy.ai - Build custom AI agents for scheduling, email triage, research, and more. I use it for meeting prep: it pulls context from past emails and Slack threads before calls. You can also train it to handle routine emails or reschedule conflicts automatically.

Calendly AI - Calendly added AI features that suggest meeting times based on your habits and auto-write confirmation emails. It's incremental, not a huge leap from the base product, but it does save a few clicks per booking.

Motion - Combines task management with calendar AI. It auto-schedules your to-do list around meetings and adjusts when things run late. Also has workflow automation for CRM updates and team handoffs. Worth it if your day is chaotic.

Solvea AI - Handles customer support in 50+ languages. It answers FAQs, escalates complex tickets, and tracks conversations. If you're getting repetitive questions, this cuts response time in half.

Talkdesk - AI agents for phone and chat support. They handle tier-1 questions and route harder issues to humans. Enterprise-focused, so expect a sales call before you see pricing.

Ada Support - Multi-channel chatbot for support. Works across web, SMS, and social. The AI learns from past tickets, so answers improve over time. Good if you're supporting a SaaS product with a knowledge base.

Sintra.ai - Teams of AI employees for research, content, and social media. You assign tasks to different agents—one does competitor research, another writes LinkedIn posts, another schedules them. It's modular, which is either flexible or over-complicated depending on your workflow.

HubSpot AI - Built into HubSpot's CRM. Writes email campaigns, generates social posts, and scores leads. If you're already paying for HubSpot, turn this on. If you're not, there are cheaper tools here.

Jasper AI - Writes marketing copy: ads, blog posts, emails, landing pages. You give it a brief, it outputs drafts. Quality varies—expect to edit 30% of what it produces. But it's faster than staring at a blank page.

Merlin AI - Generates blog posts and SEO content in bulk. You upload keywords, it writes articles. The output is generic unless you feed it your brand voice and examples. Treat it like a first-draft writer, not a finisher.

Pictory.ai - Turns long videos into short clips for social. You upload a webinar or podcast, it finds the best moments and adds captions. Saves hours if you're repurposing content.

Synthesia.io - Creates videos with AI avatars. You write a script, pick an avatar, and it generates a video. Useful for training videos, product demos, or explainer content if you don't want to be on camera.

Synthesys.io - AI voiceovers and video synthesis. You input text, it produces a video with narration. The voices sound real enough for marketing videos and presentations.

Otter.ai - Joins your Zoom or Google Meet calls and transcribes in real time. After the call, it creates a summary and pulls out action items. The free tier works for most solo founders.

Fireflies.ai - Same concept as Otter, but it also integrates with your CRM to log calls automatically. If you're in sales and need call records in Salesforce, this is cleaner than manual logging.

Zoom AI Companion - Built into Zoom. Summarizes meetings, drafts follow-up emails, and answers questions about past calls. If you're already on Zoom's paid plan, it's included.

Make.com - Visual automation platform that connects apps and builds workflows without code. You map out scenarios with a flowchart interface—when X happens, do Y and Z. Handles complex logic better than Zapier: branches, filters, error handling. Good if your workflows have multiple steps or need conditional triggers. Free tier gives you 1,000 operations per month.

Gumloop - Connects AI into multi-step workflows. You map out a process—like "scrape leads from this site, enrich with LinkedIn data, send to CRM"—and the AI handles it. More technical than Zapier but more control.

VectorShift - Multi-agent orchestration platform. You set up AI agents that talk to each other and trigger actions across your stack. If you're automating complex ops workflows, this is powerful but has a learning curve.

SnapLogic Agentic - Enterprise-grade workflow automation with AI agents. It connects databases, APIs, and business systems. Overkill for most small teams, but if you're integrating legacy systems, it handles complexity well.

UiPath - Robotic process automation plus AI. Automates repetitive tasks like data entry, invoice processing, and compliance checks. Big with enterprises. You'll need someone technical to set it up.

Relevance AI - Visual platform for building AI workers. You design workflows with a drag-and-drop interface. The AI handles research, data extraction, and reporting. Good if you're non-technical but want custom agents.

Superhuman - The cult email tool for professionals was added to a larger suite of tools including Coda and Grammarly, forming an AI coalition of joyful productivity.

Dyna AI - Marketplace of pre-built AI agents for finance, insurance, sales, and service. You pick an agent, plug it into your workflow, and it runs tasks like data analysis or client reporting.

GoSearch.ai - Enterprise search assistant. It connects to your Google Drive, Slack, Notion, and other tools, then answers questions by pulling data from across your workspace. Saves time digging through files.

Domo - AI-powered analytics and dashboards. It automates reporting and surfaces insights from your business data. More for teams with complex data needs, less for solo founders tracking basic metrics.

HireAI - Screens developer candidates and automates outreach for recruiting. If you're hiring engineers, it filters resumes and sends personalized messages at scale.

Trello AI - Added AI features to automate task assignments and suggest workflows. If you're using Trello already, it's a small upgrade. If you're not, there are better project management tools.

Oracle AI - 400+ pre-built AI agents for finance, supply chain, HR, marketing, and sales. This is for big companies with Oracle infrastructure. You're not setting this up as a solo founder.

Moveworks - Automates IT support, compliance, and knowledge workflows across departments. Think of it as an internal helpdesk agent. Only makes sense at scale.

Google Cloud AI - Gemini-powered agents for analytics, operations, and enterprise tasks. You'll need a technical team to implement, but the capabilities are broad if you're building on Google Cloud.

Most of these tools fall into two camps: workflow glue (Make, Gumloop, VectorShift) or task replacements (Jason AI, Otter, Solvea). The glue tools connect your existing stack. The task tools replace a human doing one thing repeatedly.

If you're a solo founder or small team, start with the task tools. Pick one repetitive workflow - booking meetings, answering support emails, writing outreach - and hand it to an AI. See if it saves you three hours a week. If it does, add another.

Avoid the enterprise platforms unless you have a team and budget to match. Also skip anything that promises to "build AI employees" but really just sells you a chatbot with a dashboard.

The best tools here are the boring ones: scheduling assistants, transcription bots, email responders. They don't sound exciting, but they give you time back. That's the point.

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