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Free AI tools and comparison guides

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Calculators that use your own numbers, honest comparisons between automation approaches, and real workflow playbooks — built for founder-led SMEs weighing up AI. No signup, no gated download.

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AI Savings Scanner

Answer eight questions about your team’s week — team size, hourly cost, and the hours lost to admin, scheduling, invoicing, reporting and inbox work — and see the monthly and annual savings automation could unlock. Every figure is calculated from the numbers you enter.

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ROI Calculator

A quicker, single-screen model for sizing the return on one automated workflow. Adjust hours, hourly cost and volume to see payback shift in real time.

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Comparison

Zapier vs. Custom AI Agents

When simple triggers and actions are enough, when judgement-heavy work needs a custom agent, where the breakeven sits, and how EU AI Act and GDPR obligations differ between the two.

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Comparison

AI Employees vs. Virtual Assistants

Cost, availability, scalability and error profile compared side by side, so you can decide which model actually fits the work you are trying to take off your team.

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Playbook

AI Automation Examples

Eight real workflows operators are already running — inbox triage, proposals, order ops, invoicing, lead routing, reporting, support and meeting prep — with the mechanics of each.

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Live data

SME AI Savings Benchmarks

Live, anonymized aggregates from real scanner runs — the average and median monthly savings founder-led SMEs uncover, broken down by industry. No surveys, no invented statistics.

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Library

Resource Library

Weekly automation playbooks, vertical implementation guides and downloadable resources for professional services, clinics, hospitality, short-term rentals, agencies and e-commerce.

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Next step

Free 15-Minute AI Audit

Bring any number from the tools above and we will pressure-test the assumptions against how your team actually works, then give you a straight answer. No deck, no pitch sequence.

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Workflow recommender

Describe one workflow. Get the memo to read first.

Tell us about a manual task your team repeats. We'll point you to the most relevant Automaiq memo and one thing to decide before automating it.

Proof Sprint ranker

List a few workflows. See which one to prove first.

Describe two to five manual tasks your team repeats. We'll rank them by how well each suits a two-week Proof Sprint, and say what the sprint should prove.

Start with your own numbers

The scanner takes about two minutes and asks nothing but questions about your week. Take the result into a free 15-minute audit and we will tell you plainly whether automation is worth it.

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