Curated by 30+ Years of Tech Experience

The Modern CEO's AI Toolkit

A curated guide to the platforms driving real business results.
Vetted by decades of technology and data experience.

The Curated Toolkit

The AI landscape is noisy. This is not an exhaustive list of every tool available. It is a curated collection of platforms I have experience with and recommend for their specific strengths in automating and growing a business.

Foundational Language Models

The Engines

The core AI models powering intelligent applications

OpenAI

For building custom solutions with state-of-the-art text, code, and image generation (GPT-4, etc.).

Anthropic (Claude)

For high-context reasoning, document analysis, and building safer, more reliable AI assistants.

Google (Gemini)

For multimodal applications that deeply integrate with Google's ecosystem and data platforms.

Workflow Automation & Integration

The Nervous System

Connecting and automating business processes

Make.com

For designing and running complex, multi-step automated workflows with powerful visual logic.

Zapier

For simple, no-code task automation connecting thousands of web apps with ease.

n8n

An open-source, self-hostable option for developers who need maximum flexibility in their automations.

Business Intelligence & Data Analytics

The Brains

Transforming data into actionable insights

Sigma Computing

For exploring live cloud data with the speed and familiarity of a spreadsheet, now enhanced with AI.

Snowflake

The premier cloud data platform for centralizing, processing, and enabling AI on your company's data.

Microsoft Power BI

For deep integration with the Microsoft stack, offering robust visualization and AI-driven insights via Copilot.

Tableau

For best-in-class, highly interactive data visualization and storytelling.

Sales & Marketing AI

The Mouthpiece

Accelerating customer acquisition and engagement

GoHighLevel

The all-in-one platform for agencies and SMBs to manage marketing, sales funnels, and communication.

HubSpot AI

For leveraging AI within a leading CRM to create content, analyze data, and predict customer behavior.

Jasper.ai

A focused platform for generating high-quality marketing copy, blog posts, and sales content at scale.

Clay

For enriching contact data and personalizing sales outreach with information from over 50 sources.

AI-Powered Media & Content Creation

The Creative Suite

Generating and editing multimedia content

Midjourney

For creating exceptionally high-quality, artistic, and stylized images for branding and marketing.

ElevenLabs

For generating hyper-realistic AI voiceovers and cloning voices for audio content.

Descript

An all-in-one tool for editing video and audio as easily as editing a text document.

Otter.ai

For automated meeting transcription, summarization, and action item identification.

Development & Internal Tools

The Builders

Accelerating software development and internal operations

Vercel (v0.dev)

For generating React-based UI components from text prompts to accelerate web development.

Retool

For rapidly building custom internal applications, dashboards, and admin panels on top of your data.

Cursor

An AI-first code editor designed for pair-programming with an AI that understands your entire codebase.

Strategy Before Tools.

The right toolkit is essential, but it's only as effective as the strategy behind it. With three decades of experience in technology implementation, I focus on integrating these tools to solve core business problems and drive measurable growth.