By now you’ve heard of ChatGPT. But, what about Asana? Or Zapier Central? Here’s an A to Z summary of the top AI tools for security professionals. And no… ChatGPT won’t give you an equally thorough or industry-focused list.
Choosing the Right AI Tool
Before we dive into specific apps, let’s discuss how to choose the best AI tools for your business. Here are some key things you’ll want to consider.
Scalability: Choose AI tools that grow with your business. So they can handle increases in users, workloads and data at a reasonable cost increase. These tools should also cover all your business needs from data analysis to customer support.
Integration: Pick AI apps that integrate with other software tools like CRM, databases and communication systems.
Data Security + Privacy: You’ll want AI software that’s data-compliant to protect confidential business data and customer information. For example, with a public platform like ChatGPT you may introduce data privacy risk.
Easy-to-Learn: Look for AI tools with intuitive, user-friendly interfaces so your team can quickly train and adapt to the new system.
Support: Top AI apps should include reliable support systems so your marketing and sales teams avoid unnecessary issues or downtime.
ROI: Review the cost of implementing and maintaining each AI app or system—an ROI that justifies the expense. Weigh the improvement in efficiency and quality of the output when used by your team.
AI for Every Business Need
These days, there’s an AI tool for everything. That being said, we’ve focused on those that tackle 3 key industry tasks: productivity, marketing and physical security.
#1 Productivity
GenAI-Powered Chatbots: Think ChatGPT, Claude, Bing AI, Zapier Central. These AI assistants can help with a variety of tasks including:
- Content Generation – Create marketing content like blog articles and emails, or summarize documents.
- Language Translation – Translate text across numerous languages.
- Research + Education – Ask these tools questions about everything from industry topics to current events. Perplexity will even provide reference documents.
Zapier also helps you build your own personal AI assistant that works across 7,000+ software apps!
- Grammar + Writing Tools: Proof and refine your writing with Grammarly, Wordtune and ProWritingAid.
- Store, Search + Share Knowledge: Can’t recall an important idea from your meeting notes? Notion AI will find it. Mem tags and organizes notes so you can easily search info. Upload data to Personal AI and it will use it to reply to emails for you.
- Task + Project Management: Asana identifies project risks and workflow blockers, plus also integrates with Zapier’s AI platform. BeeDone turns tedious tasks into games, offering rewards when you move forward. Any.do breaks projects into tasks.
- Transcription + Meeting Assistants: AI transcription/meeting assistants like Fireflies, Airgram and Krisp turn voice into text so you can stay present in meetings and browse the transcript later.
- Scheduling: Take project, personal and team scheduling to the next level with Reclaim, Clockwise and Motion.
- Email Management: Is your overflowing inbox driving you insane? Try SaneBox, Mailbutler and EmailTree. They’ll help you summarize, generate and even automate emails by connecting to Zapier.
Looking for more niche apps? Check these out: more AI productivity tools
#2 Marketing
- Content Creation: Generate, refine and summarize blogs, emails and more content with Jasper, Copy.ai and Anyword.
- Video Creation: Edit and create marketing and demo videos with Descript, Wondershare Filmora and Runway.
- Image Creation: Produce custom images for social media campaigns, blogs and more with DALL·E 3, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.
- Voice + Music Generation: Tools like Murf, Splash Pro and AIVA make adding voice and music to promotions and social media easier and less costly.
- Slide Decks + Presentations: With tools like Decktopus and Beautiful.ai, unique styles and royalty-free images are just the start. Slidesgo lets you pick a topic, tone, template and generates a presentation for you.
#3 Physical Security Surveillance
- Spot AI: AI analyzes security camera video for training, incident resolution and employee safety.
- IntelliVision: AI-powered human and vehicle detection.
- Agent Video Intelligence: Real-time video analysis and alerts for video search and business intelligence.
- Pure Tech Systems: AI Analytics processing on megapixel cameras plus thermal and visible imagery.
- Eagle Eye Networks: Smart, cloud-based video surveillance with AI analytics.
- Gorilla Technology: Custom, AI in physical security solutions including a 24/7 Security Operations Center.
- Clarifai: An AI platform that helps you gain insights from unstructured image, video, text, and audio data.
Automate All Your AI With Zapier
Though we mentioned Zapier earlier, it’s worth a reminder. AI chat automation and data analysis in one hub, this platform allows you to create your own AI assistant that works across apps for one streamlined experience.
House Your AI Hub: The Security Station
So, where do you house the electronics you need for all these AI tools? In your portable security podium, of course.
Access AI wherever you need it with our stylish, versatile security stations.