Top AIs for briefs and research 📚

Hey AI Puppies, 

Another week, another chance to find the game-changing AI that’s been missing from your workday ⚡

We’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again. Taking the time to learn a new AI tool can transform how you approach your work, your routine, and, of course, your side hustles. 

Whether you’re looking for major changes or minor improvements, there’s an AI out there for you 🫡

This week, we’re digging deeper into a sector of AI with a ton of untapped potential: research, specifically for briefing documents. Tired of losing your next big idea to disorganized notes?

We’ve found 3 AI-powered brief-boosting assistants worth checking out:

👉Waldo, for generating briefs from scratch

👉Scite, a research tool for academic content

👉Tactiq, an AI that takes meeting notes to recall key info

What we love about these AIs is that they don’t aim to replicate your creativity or replace your ideas. They uplift your talents with a fresh foundation to start the creative process!

Let’s get into it.

Waldo: Become an Expert in Seconds

Research is a key component of so many professions, but when was the last time you upped your research skills?

If Google searches aren’t cutting it these days, or you waste tons of time sifting through results, Waldo may be for you. The AI platform helps strategists, consultants, journalists, financial analysts, and anyone else who relies on research uncover reliable, insightful info in a flash. 

Here’s what the main search bar looks like for a marketer working on a brief (but you can change your profession and project for different search features):

As you can see, you can do a General search, or add a specific Client you’re researching for. 

We told Waldo we’re working on this:

And got a complete outline for the pitch deck in seconds, complete with images, structure, and copy:

You can even take the Waldo-generated content, and export it to Google Drive!

Of course, Waldo has a ton of other research fields to explore. Here’s what’s available for Consultants, for example:

Like anything else with AI, think of this as a starting point to let your own creativity shine. 

Scite: for Speedy, Spectacular Research

Do you love the research process, get a kick out of digging into new topics, but wish your search bar could read your mind? Or, do you enjoy researching with AI, but don’t like having to cross-check potential hallucinations?

Think of Scite.AI as Google on steroids. From the company itself: Scite saves you hours by surfacing critical engagement around a topic, so you don’t have to read every paper.

Scite is definitely intended for hard-core researchers who utilize academic papers, but the UX feels anything but academic. There are a few ways to use Scite:

🐾The search bar on the Scite site itself, which pulls highlights, citation statements, and abstracts from across the academic research world. 

We searched ‘puppy training’ and received 417 AI-powered paper results you can filter:  

🐾Or, you can use Assistant, a ChatGPT-like chat function to ask questions, get summaries, or get help understanding a piece of research:

For example, we searched ‘When is the right time to start puppy training’ and got a full AI chat response and a list of references:

We also tried ‘Find a source for the following sentence: french bulldogs are the most popular dog breed in America’ and got:

The results are impeccable!

🐾You can also install a Scite Chrome extension, which tells you how a publication you find on Google has been cited and classified (you can see the Scite bar scanning on the right side of this screenshot):

You’ll have to upgrade to the paid version of Scite to get full research answers, but after your free trial, we have a feeling you’ll be obsessed with the results 👏

Happy researching, puppies!

Tactiq: for Capturing Every Meeting Detail

Perhaps writing and research aren’t holding you back from effective briefs. Are disorganized meeting notes, chaotic brainstorms, and messy action items holding you back?

We’ve talked about meeting transcription services before, but we’ve had especially good luck these days with Tactiq, an AI-powered notetaker. In fact, it’s considered the #1 transcription tool for Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams! 

Tactiq, which was built with OpenAI’s enterprise offering, is a favorite because it:

🐾Doesn’t record your meetings – it transcribes live by listening to the speaker

🐾Tracks who said what, instead of generating a giant list of name-less quotes

🐾Doesn’t tell everyone in the meeting you’re transcribing (and again, you’re not recording them)

🐾Doesn’t use your meeting data to train OpenAI models

🐾Highlights potential action items on your behalf (pictured below)

The AI even learns your style to suggest custom, reusable actions after a meeting, like ‘Write me a Jira ticket’ or ‘structure notes in your preferred format.’

Tactiq is everything you want an AI to be: simple, straightforward, and a no-brainer to use 👏

As for the briefing part of things, with clear and concise meeting notes in your corner, you can waste less time getting organized and more time strategizing!

Your Next Assignment

Because Scite is our favorite tool of the week, we challenge you to ask Scite your two free chat Assistant questions. You’ll be amazed by how reliable and insightful the results are, no matter what field you’re in!

What tools are you using these days? Keep us posted on our socials, where we’re continuing to share our own discoveries every week:  Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and TikTok 📲

That’s it for this week’s newsletter! Enjoy the weekend. We’ll be back again this time next week with more 👋🐾

Talk soon,

The AI Puppy