AI tools for running a company, any recommendations?

[Natalim]

I don’t know if this is the right section to post this, so I’ll just ask the mods to move it if it’s in the wrong place.

So here’s my situation guys...

I’m currently running a company as CEO, and I’ve been using some AI tools, mostly ChatGPT, to make things a bit easier. Now I’m curious if there are better tools out there that can really help improve my knowledge and skills in running a successful company. especially for those in the corporate world, what AI tools are you using? ( need some recommendation)

Please list down some tools or apps, include the link if possible and if it will not violate forum rules... and maybe a short explanation of how they help. Also include the pricing, whether monthly or yearly, so I can check if it fits our current budget.

Just trying to explore options and see what’s worth using.

[Satofan44]

Now I’m curious if there are better tools out there that can really help improve my knowledge and skills in running a successful company. especially for those in the corporate world, what AI tools are you using? ( need some recommendation)

You are confused at the beginning. Tools do not improve neither your knowledge or your skills, they help automate some tasks and save you some time. The closest that it gets to using "AI" to do something for you is paying a freelancer to do it for you. Do you gain the skills and knowledge when a freelancer completes some job for you? Of course not. If you want to improve your knowledge, open a damned business book.

Please list down some tools or apps, include the link if possible and if it will not violate forum rules... and maybe a short explanation of how they help. Also include the pricing, whether monthly or yearly, so I can check if it fits our current budget.

Just trying to explore options and see what’s worth using.

How about you state first what exactly is it that you need, and what is it that you do? CEO of a company is such a generic term, that only random suggestions can be given to you. There are tools that are general-task oriented, and tools that are specific task- or industry- oriented. Therefore, tell us first what kind of company are you running and what is it that you are trying to do?

[Natalim]

How about you state first what exactly is it that you need, and what is it that you do? CEO of a company is such a generic term, that only random suggestions can be given to you. There are tools that are general-task oriented, and tools that are specific task- or industry- oriented. Therefore, tell us first what kind of company are you running and what is it that you are trying to do?

I want something I can use for programming, accounting, and building a company workflow for different departments such as marketing, accounting, IT, human resources, and field collection, especially for tasks involving money handling. I want something that can be used for monitoring and management, preferably based on global standards like ISO or something similar. Things like that.

[lovesmayfamilis]

I would start with how many mistakes the AI made at a time when it was entrusted with some control. I don't want to argue with those who trust AI and the amazing advantages that AI helps people in terms of running their business, but every time I think about myself personally, I am convinced that a robot cannot do better than a human specialist can. I would not blindly trust; I would allow it, but I check everything regularly, and thus it turns out that the use of AI would still not be full-fledged.

https://hackmag.com/news/pocketos-fail

As a result, the company lost a massive volume of data critical to its clients’ businesses and was forced to roll back to a three-month-old backup.

“I’m writing this because every founder, every tech lead, and every journalist covering AI infrastructure needs to understand what actually happened,” says the head of PocketOS. “Not the superficial version of events (‘oops, the AI deleted some data’), but the systemic issues in two aggressively promoted vendors that made this scenario not just possible, but practically inevitable.”

Crane concludes that this story is not about some agent or API turning out to be “bad”:

“This is a story about an entire industry that is rolling out AI agent integrations into production infrastructure faster than it is building a security architecture for all those integrations.”

In his opinion, incidents like this can’t be prevented by adding yet another “protective prompt.” Instead, destructive operations must be blocked at the architectural level: you need scoped tokens, separate confirmations for data deletion, isolation of staging from production, backups stored outside the main volume, and a clear data recovery mechanism.

At the same time, AI agents must not have direct access to critical infrastructure without external confirmation, and the model itself must not be able to bypass this safeguard. Otherwise, Crane writes, the industry is not scaling automation, but rather the blast radius.

[WillyAp]

The idea is not new. Still a company also needs to overcome issues.
What happens to your model when ChatGP, Gemini, and all else start asking for 5 bucks each promp?

[aioc]

I don’t know if this is the right section to post this, so I’ll just ask the mods to move it if it’s in the wrong place.

So here’s my situation guys...

I’m currently running a company as CEO, and I’ve been using some AI tools, mostly ChatGPT, to make things a bit easier. Now I’m curious if there are better tools out there that can really help improve my knowledge and skills in running a successful company. especially for those in the corporate world, what AI tools are you using? ( need some recommendation)

I highly recommend perplexity.ai

Accurate AI that works for your team
One secure platform that orchestrates the best models across your files and tools to handle tasks, deep research, and complex projects.

It's a go-to AI tool for ceo like you. Over 20,000 organizations trust this AI to help them manage their projects. I'm using the version for our children's personal research; it's fast and highly accurate.
You can try this tool to see if it is the one you're looking for.

[Satofan44]

How about you state first what exactly is it that you need, and what is it that you do? CEO of a company is such a generic term, that only random suggestions can be given to you. There are tools that are general-task oriented, and tools that are specific task- or industry- oriented. Therefore, tell us first what kind of company are you running and what is it that you are trying to do?

I want something I can use for programming, accounting, and building a company workflow for different departments such as marketing, accounting, IT, human resources, and field collection, especially for tasks involving money handling. I want something that can be used for monitoring and management, preferably based on global standards like ISO or something similar. Things like that.

The paid version of Claude is probably your best bet on this without going into more specialized software that is going to cost you a lot more. Remember there is always a tradeoff here, so be careful not to end up like some idiotic companies that are now paying more in AI costs than the cost of the employees that they replaced with said AI. Claude should be able to handle most of that aside perhaps the ISO standards.

The idea is not new. Still a company also needs to overcome issues.
What happens to your model when ChatGP, Gemini, and all else start asking for 5 bucks each promp?

There is a long term risk of vendor lock-in, but this should not be a big consideration for most because they are gladly accepting a vendor-lock in or several already. Most idiots here and everywhere are using Windows which is the shittiest OS on the planet and they are using more things from the Microsoft product suite. Only people who are using better alternatives and refusing to lock themselves to other vendors would seriously consider that being an issue.

I would start with how many mistakes the AI made at a time when it was entrusted with some control. I don't want to argue with those who trust AI and the amazing advantages that AI helps people in terms of running their business, but every time I think about myself personally, I am convinced that a robot cannot do better than a human specialist can. I would not blindly trust; I would allow it, but I check everything regularly, and thus it turns out that the use of AI would still not be full-fledged.

https://hackmag.com/news/pocketos-fail

That statement, written like that, is false. The correct writing is that the "current robots" cannot do better than a human specialist can -- but that is going to change. Are you aware or are you in blind naivety, that the super-majority of people employed in every single job that exists are incompetent? Replacing them is not going to be difficult, replacing those that are actually competent or real experts (not fake ones of which there are plenty) is the hard part. You can always automate many things very well. It is supposed to be a work enhancer, not a "let it do all for you and pretend that it increased my productivity" kind of thing yet. Certain individuals or entities using the tools in a wrong way and leading to catastrophic failures does not say anything really. You may not know because these stories are not publicly shared or that interesting because they are frequent, but there have been countless cases where software interns were given access to the production environment by mistake and they ended up nuking everything -- which is the fault of the seniors who set it up.  

[Findingnemo]

You need AI for what exactly? Are you running a company that is creating digital art or something or designing some kind of things to your clietns and anything?

AI can give you some info without you need to search on your own but I highly doubt you can do much with the help of AI with your compnay...

[Fortify]

I don’t know if this is the right section to post this, so I’ll just ask the mods to move it if it’s in the wrong place.

So here’s my situation guys...

I’m currently running a company as CEO, and I’ve been using some AI tools, mostly ChatGPT, to make things a bit easier. Now I’m curious if there are better tools out there that can really help improve my knowledge and skills in running a successful company. especially for those in the corporate world, what AI tools are you using? ( need some recommendation)

Please list down some tools or apps, include the link if possible and if it will not violate forum rules... and maybe a short explanation of how they help. Also include the pricing, whether monthly or yearly, so I can check if it fits our current budget.

Just trying to explore options and see what’s worth using.

The obvious thing would be to go the Microsoft route, because they are trying to work AI into their whole office suite and you're probably already paying for a chunk of their software anyway. You should look at Copilot licensing because it has proven to be a very effective form of AI based on my experience with it. I think that Claude might be doing better now and some colleagues are highly praising it, but I don't have any direct experience with it. You can get the copilot AI to do all sorts of things like prioritizing email and writing massive chunks of code for you. ChatGPT is the amateur and rookie level, plus it does not properly silo you private data - essentially all interactions with it are feeding into it's model, which could end up leaking very sensitive company data, but Microsoft have licensing that segregate your data to prevent this.

[joniboini]

I want something I can use for programming, accounting, and building a company workflow for different departments such as marketing, accounting, IT, human resources, and field collection, especially for tasks involving money handling. I want something that can be used for monitoring and management, preferably based on global standards like ISO or something similar. Things like that.

Sounds like you need multiple tools then. I can't believe a single tool would be enough for that. As far as my experience with AI goes, especially with LLM, I think they're fine for simple coding but probably would need a lot of intervention if you're handling large codes. What kind of progamming you need actually? Is it long-term coding or just to make a single app for your workflow? Why do you need AI instead of hiring a competent developer? Is cost the only reason for that?

[Smartprofit]

As a CEO, you can use the Socratic dialogue method (invented by the philosopher Plato) for self-improvement.🙋

That is, you can simply take a walk in the park during your lunch break and answer questions posed by your language model.

To do this, you need to train your language model in advance to use a highly critical approach when formulating questions. Also, train it to ask no more than one question at a time.🙅

After this, describe the production situation (that currently bothers you) to your language model in as much detail as possible. It will ask you questions, and you will answer them. Through this dialogue, you will begin to understand the production situation much more deeply. This is very important because people often deceive themselves. People don't like to ask themselves difficult questions. But your language model doesn't have such a problem. If you train it to ask you tricky questions, it will.💁

[Jaweria parveen]

We believe that AI has also extended its own standard with the increasing era. According to some people AI has proven to be beneficial and according to some people it is harmful.Everyone has their own experiences so it is not wise to prefer AI for everything because before AI came every work was being done according to the method of human creation.Those works were also 100 percent correct.Now AI cannot be trusted completely because it has given wrong advice and information many time.According to my opinion human creation and its hard work are more reliable and anyway even in the era of technology AI cannot do every work alone.Human help will definitely be needed.

[ZAINmalik75]

Please list down some tools or apps, include the link if possible and if it will not violate forum rules... and maybe a short explanation of how they help. Also include the pricing, whether monthly or yearly, so I can check if it fits our current budget.

Just trying to explore options and see what’s worth using.

There are multiple models that you can use, and right now, most people are using Sonnet on the Claude platform, which belongs to Anthropic. You might have heard a lot about Anthropic lately because their models have been used by the U.S. Department of Defense to lock targets and possibly do many other things of which we cannot know, of course. I have used Claude and I think it works better, it can easily be integrated into our IDEs and other working environments. However, I found Claude more expensive than ChatGPT, but there are different providers, there must be some in your local hometown too, who are providing these services at cheaper prices. I do not know how they are doing it.

Besides Claude's models, you can use DeepSeek's models, but I have never used them and I do not know much about them either. If you had mentioned the nature of your work, I might have been able to give a better suggestion, but so far I know that if ChatGPT is not doing your work, then Claude will. I am not promoting it, I have just used it for several purposes and it worked perfectly.

[shinratensei_]

You gotta explain what use case you want to use, most AI are already good enough and they can spawn subagent. Main agent for orchestrating subagent for delegation of tasks.
If you're going to use it for coding you can use OpenAI's Codex and so on. If what you're doing is just summarizing pdf and whatnot using perplexity will be sufficient.

It narrows down to the use case that you want since each AI have its own strength in certain fields, I do use Grok for reviewing whitepapers a lot though.

I want something I can use for programming, accounting, and building a company workflow for different departments such as marketing, accounting, IT, human resources, and field collection, especially for tasks involving money handling. I want something that can be used for monitoring and management, preferably based on global standards like ISO or something similar. Things like that.

These are tough tasks and your best bet is Claude Opus 4.7 + hermes. But I haven't found any AI that could do all of this seamlessly and you're going to need to create your skills for your AI.