7 AI Tools You Can’t Afford to Ignore in 2025

Credits: Lexica

I hate to break it to you, but you’re really slacking off if you still spend hours upon hours agonizing over video editing, graphic design, and brainstorming original content ideas.

For those who get it, AI is doing all the labor-intensive tasks.

Do you want to make your life 10 times more straightforward, automate the tedious tasks, and produce beautiful content? The appropriate AI tools are required. The AI tools that deliver, not just any AI tools.

Today, I want to offer seven of the greatest AI tools that my team utilizes on a daily basis, out of the hundreds of AI products I’ve explored for my business.

These tools are crucial for creators, solopreneurs, and digital marketers since they assist with anything from content generation to marketing automation.

1. Shiken

Shiken is a feature-rich, AI-powered content production tool that is simple yet effective. It has tools for creating quizzes and courses, an AI writer, and even an AI roleplay generator.

Shiken makes it simple to produce and market instructional materials like question banks and courses if you want to launch an online knowledge company.

You may combine your material with your website using a custom domain or sell it via Shiken’s shop.

Stripe handles payments, and an integrated marketing dashboard helps you monitor sales and offer discounts.

The finest aspect?
You just need to upload a document, put in a link, or provide your own prompt to produce content.

Even an AI assistant with a prompt library is available to help you.

Our team uses Shiken to create entertaining quizzes, offer courses, and write AI content.

The Creator tier offers a free trial, and the premium plans cost $49 monthly.

2. Canva’s AI Tool Suite

Canva is already a well-known design tool, but its AI capabilities improve it. We use Canva for everything, including business papers, social media postings, and blog graphics.

Among the notable AI attributes are:

Background Remover: Quickly eliminate picture backgrounds.
AI Eraser Tool: Choose and eliminate components from a picture.
Object Manipulation: Choose items in a picture and swap them out or move them.
Using language prompts, an AI Image Generator can generate unique images.
Bulk Design: Create many designs with a single click by uploading a CSV file.

Although Canva offers subscription plans for its AI features, the time savings make them well worth the investment.

3. ChatGPT with Canva

ChatGPT is a fantastic AI writing tool, but it’s much more helpful for digital marketers and solopreneurs combined with Canva.

You may create blog entries and marketing content and modify documents in real-time using ChatGPT-4’s canvas function. Additionally, you can:

Optimize the intricacy and length of the text.
Pull in research from Google.
For real-time SEO optimization, use tools like Surfer SEO (more on that later).

ChatGPT with Canva is revolutionary if you are a content creator.

4. Opus Clip

Opus Clip is an essential tool for anybody involved in video production. We use it to segment lengthy films into brief, interesting segments.

It also automatically creates captions.
Improves videos for many platforms.
Incorporates zoom effects and a B-roll.
It gives a virality score to estimate the performance of a clip.

Regarding video editing, Opus Clip saves a tonne of time, even if you use Premiere Pro or CapCut for final cuts.

5. Lemlist

Lemlist is an AI-powered application for outreach via phone, LinkedIn, and email. It ensures a personalized touch while automating sales and lead creation processes.

Lemlist allows you to:

Locate and purify lists of possible clients.
Use AI to personalize emails.
Use AI-powered templates to create whole email sequences.
Track answers and automate follow-ups.

This tool saves hours of human labor if you engage in outreach or sales.

6. Descript: Artificial Intelligence Video Editing and Dubbing

One of the most fantastic AI-powered video editing applications is Descript. I use it to do real-time transcription of meetings and YouTube videos. Modifying text while editing video (cut text and the video will instantly update!).

Eliminating words like “um” and “uh” with a single click. After recording your voice once, artificial intelligence creates any corrections or missing words.

Descript is an excellent tool for making YouTube videos or requiring quick transcriptions.

7. Surfer SEO — AI for SEO Optimization

Surfer SEO is your best buddy if you want your content to rank on Google. It evaluates your content and makes real-time suggestions based on articles with the highest rankings.

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