Roundup Coding & productivity
AI tools for a one-person business
A small stack for a solo business: one assistant, one design tool, one place for notes, and rules for what not to subscribe to yet.
Otter.ai
Prices change. Umee only records whether a product is free, has both free and paid plans, or is paid. A trial is not the same as an ongoing free plan. Read the official pricing page before you buy.
Otter.ai records meetings and turns them into a transcript with a summary. It is useful when you live in calls and do not want to take every note by hand. Free and paid plans are published. Tell the other people on the call that you are recording, and check how long transcripts are kept.
Quick facts
- Job
- Productivity
- Pricing model
- Free and paid plans
- Official site
- https://otter.ai/
Guides that mention Otter.ai
How-to Research & support
How to choose an AI notetaker
How to pick Otter, Fireflies, or a notebook you control, including consent, retention, and a test on a call you were going to have anyway.
Similar tools
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Productivity Free and paid plans
Fireflies.ai
Fireflies.ai joins meetings, transcribes them, and files a summary. Teams use it as a shared record of sales and client calls. Free and paid plans are published. Get consent before a bot joins a call, and decide where transcripts are stored before you connect it to a client workspace.
Productivity Free and paid plans
Gamma
Gamma creates presentations, documents, and simple pages from an outline, with AI laying out the slides. It is faster than a blank deck and less precise than a design tool. Free and paid plans have both been offered. Check export formats on gamma.app before you promise a client a specific file type.
Productivity Free and paid plans
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft's assistant. There is a consumer chat at copilot.microsoft.com and, on paid Microsoft 365 plans, assistance inside apps such as Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams. The two are easy to confuse. Decide which one you mean, then read that product's current plan page.
Productivity Free and paid plans
Notion
Notion is a workspace for notes, documents, and light databases. Notion AI drafts, summarizes, and rewrites inside those pages. A free workspace and paid plans are published, and AI has at times been packaged as its own line. Check Notion's pricing page so you know whether AI is included in the plan you already pay for.