AI Solutions for Improving Remote Work

I've received a few questions on this, so thought I'd share 5 ways I'm using AI in my day-to-day at work to boost productivity, insight, and strategic clarity: Benchmarking: I use AI daily to quickly validate metrics and performance benchmarks. For instance, when reviewing email open rates, I ask ChatGPT (and other LLMs) for industry benchmarks segmented by email types, industries and content. This provides immediate clarity on performance against the rest, and I can see if we're good, great, or have work to do. This information was hard to find or non-existent before and instantly helps builld context. Thought Partner: LLMs elevate my strategic thinking. Whether analyzing competitors or drafting new strategies, I leverage AI to rapidly identify gaps, assess my thoughts against frameworks like "Seven Powers," and run game theory on them with competitive response and market players. It uplevels my thinking and leads to more comprhensive considerations. Deepening Customer Insights: By processing sales call transcripts and meeting notes through AI, I can surface customer pain points and uncover new insights, which improves my understanding of customer needs, sales blockers and messaging that otherwise would be hard to come by. Writing Partner: I use AI to power my writing process—from refining documents to constructing logical, concise, and compelling arguments. It helps draft outlines, provides examples and proof-points to reinforce my assertions, and streamlines my writing. All-in it makes my writing better and faster. Automating Daily Tasks: I use AI-powered tools daily to track competitors, monitor market trends, and check-in on things I care about. It never stops working and so I always have this information available as needed. Today, AI is integral to about half of my workday. And this is just the beginning—there's even more potential to unlock with automations such as reviewing and drafting replies for my emails, prioritizing which documents to review next, and automated meeting prep. How are you integrating AI into your workflow? I'd love to hear what's worked for you.

I sat down with Rowan Manson for an insightful discussion live from #GoogleCloudNext in Las Vegas, diving deep into the latest AI advancements rolling out for Google Workspace. Google is seriously leveling up productivity and collaboration with practical AI tools that are becoming available now. This isn't just future-talk; it's about tangible impact today. Watch the video here: https://lnkd.in/gn9bD9hA Key takeaways we discussed: 🤖 Flows: Game-changing automation is here! Think action/time-triggered workflows combined with Gemini's power to generate content and act as a true digital assistant for everyone, not just enterprise developers. 🎬 Google Vids + Veo: Creating professional video content (for training, comms, etc.) just got incredibly accessible, removing the need for specialized skills or tools. 🤝 Smarter Collaboration:Meet: AI recaps, summaries, and action items mean more productive meetings (even if you miss one!). Docs: Generate audio summaries/podcasts of your documents and get real-time Gemini writing suggestions. Sheets: The enhanced "Explore" feature acts like a data assistant, using natural language to unlock insights. 💡 AI as a Productivity Engine: Echoing Google's own findings (shipping 30% more code with AI help!), these tools are about augmenting human capability and automating the "busy work," freeing us up for strategic tasks. The overall theme? AI in Workspace is moving beyond concepts to become a practical, usable, and powerful part of our daily workflows. Companies not leveraging these tools risk falling behind. Watch the video here: https://lnkd.in/gn9bD9hA Check out Rowan and Cobry https://gocobry.com Thank you to Google Cloud Next '25 for setting up this awesome recording desk and inviting me to use it. Opinions are our own. What are your thoughts on these updates? Which AI feature are you most excited to integrate into your workflow? Let's discuss below! 👇

12 Ways AI Elevates Productivity! AI is transforming how we work, and I've seen it firsthand. From managing my inbox to launching websites, here’s how AI has elevated my workday: 1️⃣ Create Websites – I recently had ChatGPT rewrite all the copy for my website. These days, AI can even launch fully deployed websites, saving time and hassle. 2️⃣ Summarize Meetings – Get straight to the point with concise meeting recaps. It’s also a great reference for future conversations. 3️⃣ Structured Brainstorming – Need ideas fast? AI can generate specific and creative suggestions for you. After summarizing a meeting, I ask for ideas to bring up based on what we discussed. 4️⃣ Voice Functionality for Brainstorming – Talk through problems and brainstorm hands-free. I often use it while walking or doing chores, and it helps me stay productive even when I’m away from my desk. 5️⃣ Interface Navigation – AI helps you learn software features instantly. Like when Capcut would update its UI, and I couldn’t find anything. A quick screenshot to AI, and I’m back on track. 6️⃣ Real-Time Streaming for Tutorials – Create dynamic tutorials with AI narrating your actions. Once, I recorded a video in the wrong format, and ChatGPT guided me through converting it using a new tool I had never heard of! 7️⃣ Language Translation – Traveling and need to break language barriers? I ask ChatGPT to translate everything for me, and it’s a game-changer. 8️⃣ Analyze Large PDFs or Contracts – AI can quickly extract key points from dense reports, making sure you don’t miss anything critical. 9️⃣ Writing & Editing – Draft and refine emails, reports, and more with ease. Honestly, who’s still writing emails manually nowadays? 1️⃣0️⃣Create Presentations & Slides – Use prompts for images and create engaging presentations effortlessly. 1️⃣1️⃣ Extract & Transform Data – From competitor analysis to customer insights, I often scrape raw data and ask ChatGPT to format it for me. 1️⃣2️⃣ Organize To-Do Lists – Turn scattered thoughts into structured, prioritized action items in minutes. AI isn’t just a tool—it’s your productivity partner. Start incorporating it into your daily workflow and work smarter, not harder! Save the image to stay productive 👇 #ArtificialIntelligence #Productivity

Are 24 hours not enough for you to get your work done? AI tools are the answer. Let me give you three quick hacks to improve your productivity and steal back some time. 1️⃣ Fireflies.ai I have Fireflies set to go to every meeting (virtually), if I miss one or forget a point, it gives me a summary and a video recording. The search the video by text is a huge time saver. My novel use is that I use it to summarize when I transcribe customer case studies. Then I bring them into a word processor and am able to have all the key points. I also am able to pull customer quotes from the transcript easily. 2️⃣ PromptDen by PromptForge I found myself writing my prompts over and over again or saving them in Notion and forgetting about them. I use PromptDen to save my prompts so I can just run them over and over again. I tweak them right in PromptDen so I have them ready. My novel use is that I create prompts for any task I do more than once a week. That's not novel. What I do is create series of prompts so that I can run a workflow. Example ↳ Prompt 1: Write an outline for an article ↳Prompt 2 :Create the article from the outline ↳Prompt 3: Improve the opening (I use a few shot prompt with a couple of examples I like. This helps get rid of the dangling participle that ChatGPT loves to put at the beginning of every paragraph. ↳Prompt 4: Provide a critique of the article (Just for the record these are complex prompts that have been optimized for my style not just the sentence you see here). 3️⃣ Midjourney Describe Describe is the lesser known but equally useful function for Midjourney for trying to create an image from something I see and I like(the one most common is /imagine for creati images). It can look at a prompt and then create four prompts describing the image and create four variations by default. My novel use is that when I see a cool image that I like and want to make a similar one for my blog, newsletter, ad campaign, etc. You can upload the image to Midjourney and then use the /describe function to create four descriptions of the image and then tweak them quickly to your own style. This beats searching endlessly through stock art sites. If you want more tips and tricks like this, subscribe to my weekly newsletter, The Artificially Intelligent Enterprise, Link in comments below 👇

AI isn't just a tool; it's becoming a teammate. A major field experiment with 776 professionals at Procter & Gamble, led by researchers from Harvard, Wharton, and Warwick, revealed something remarkable: Generative AI can replicate and even outperform human teamwork. Read the recently published paper here: In a real-world new product development challenge, professionals were assigned to one of four conditions: 1. Control Individuals without AI 2. Human Team R&D + Commercial without AI (+0.24 SD) 3. Individual + AI Working alone with GPT-4 (+0.37 SD) 4. AI-Augmented Team Human team + GPT-4 (+0.39 SD) Key findings: ⭐ Individuals with AI matched the output quality of traditional teams, with 16% less time spent. ⭐ AI helped non-experts perform like seasoned product developers. ⭐ It flattened functional silos: R&D and Commercial employees produced more balanced, cross-functional solutions. ⭐ It made work feel better: AI users reported higher excitement and energy and lower anxiety, even more so than many working in human-only teams. What does this mean for organizations? 💡 Rethink team structures. One AI-empowered individual can do the work of two and do it faster. 💡 Democratize expertise. AI is a boundary-spanning engine that reduces reliance on deep specialization. 💡 Invest in AI fluency. Prompting and AI collaboration skills are the new competitive edge. 💡 Double down on innovation. AI + team = highest chance of top-tier breakthrough ideas. This is not just productivity software. This is a redefinition of how work happens. AI is no longer the intern or the assistant. It’s showing up as a cybernetic teammate, enhancing performance, dissolving silos, and lifting morale. The future of work isn’t human vs. AI. The next step is human + AI + new ways of collaborating. Are you ready?

We just built a commercial grade RCT platform called MindMeld for humans and AI agents to collaborate in integrative workspaces. We then test drove it in a large-scale Marketing Field Experiment with surprising results. Notably, "Personality Pairing" between human and AI personalities improves output quality and Human-AI teams generate 60% greater productivity per worker. In the experiment: 🚩 2310 participants were randomly assigned to human-human and human-AI teams, with randomized AI personality traits. 🚩 The teams exchanged 183,691 messages, and created 63,656 image edits, 1,960,095 ad copy edits, and 10,375 AI-generated images while producing 11,138 ads for a large think tank. 🚩 Analysis of fine-grained communication, collaboration, and workflow logs revealed that collaborating with AI agents increased communication by 137% and allowed humans to focus 23% more on text and image content generation messaging and 20% less on direct text editing. Humans on Human-AI teams sent 23% fewer social messages, creating 60% greater productivity per worker and higher-quality ad copy. 🚩 In contrast, human-human teams produced higher-quality images, suggesting that AI agents require fine-tuning for multimodal workflows. 🚩 AI Personality Pairing Experiments revealed that AI traits can complement human personalities to enhance collaboration. For example, conscientious humans paired with open AI agents improved image quality, while extroverted humans paired with conscientious AI agents reduced the quality of text, images, and clicks. 🚩 In field tests of ad campaigns with ~5M impressions, ads with higher image quality produced by human collaborations and higher text quality produced by AI collaborations performed significantly better on click-through rate and cost per click metrics. As human collaborations produced better image quality and AI collaborations produced better text quality, ads created by human-AI teams performed similarly, overall, to those created by human-human teams. 🚩 Together, these results suggest AI agents can improve teamwork and productivity, especially when tuned to complement human traits. The paper, coauthored with Harang Ju, can be found in the link on the first comment below. We thank the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy for institutional support! As always, thoughts and comments highly encouraged! Wondering especially what Erik Brynjolfsson Edward McFowland III Iavor Bojinov John Horton Karim Lakhani Azeem Azhar Sendhil Mullainathan Nicole Immorlica Alessandro Acquisti Ethan Mollick Katy Milkman and others think!

When applied strategically, AI doesn’t just enhance productivity—it transforms the employee experience.    My latest AI at Work video explores a great example from the Bank of Queensland. To improve loan processing, their team used Copilot to uncover the root cause of delays—helping analysts identify issues 50% faster and drive better outcomes for customers and employees.    The impact? Equipping 1,000 employees with Copilot could boost productivity equivalent to adding 120 new employees—without increasing headcount. Watch the full video below and learn more about Bank of Queensland's story in our latest #WorkLab: https://lnkd.in/gGz-fndd

People have asked me what my AI productivity stack looks like. Here's a list of my 3 best AI tools that I use to scale myself, as a startup founder. 1) Zapier Zapier helps me automate workflows across different apps without coding. Put simply, you can eliminate a lot of mind-numbing, mundane tasks like data entry. I've used it to automate tasks like: (i) pinging users on WhatsApp after they've signed up on Peek, and (ii) updating call summaries into our CRM. They've made it possible to create these workflows by simply telling its AI zap creator what you want it to do. 2) Fireflies.ai As a founder, some days I have to be on calls for hours; with existing clients or onboarding new ones. But taking calls is the easy part. Generating summaries to keep track of what was discussed, and following up on actionable items is where it gets harder to keep up. Fireflies uses AI to help me transcribe, summarize, and follow up on calls with the help of Zapier. 3) Cursor (by Anysphere) I've previously written about how I build mini webapps to validate demand for a feature idea - before committing any engineering time and resources to build it into the product. Cursor is an AI code editor that helps me write code using natural language. So even as a non-technical founder, I can quickly build "minimally viable features" without having to distract my tech team. Personal finance is one area of our lives where AI can help you stay on top of otherwise very messy, and frustrating tasks. At Peek, we're trying to use AI to be your personal CFO. I'm always curious to know how you are using AI tools in your own work to supercharge your productivity. Let me know the best hacks you've discovered!

AI's hype is everywhere, but its practical application is what truly matters. !! Unlike the self-driving car hype of a decade ago, AI's implementation in the real world is uniquely different. Over the past year, I've witnessed firsthand how AI can augment our capabilities at SJ Innovation. It may not replace our jobs, but it does serve as a powerful assistant, handling numerous tasks efficiently. Since OpenAI introduced the "OpenAI Assistant," we've created over 250 specialized assistants within our organization. Upon reviewing these AI assistants, I've come to realize they haven't replaced any jobs. Instead, they're akin to having a team of interns, each adept at performing specific tasks, saving us 10-15 minutes each time. If you're leveraging 5-10 such assistants, that's a savings of 1-2 hours per day — a significant boost to productivity that will only improve over time. Here are some unusual and small assistant example: 1) Attendance Analysis: Develop AI solutions to analyze attendance data across multiple files, generating comprehensive reports to identify patterns and optimize team schedules. Create and Used by: Admin/Hr department 2) Quality Assurance Report Review: Assist QA teams Assistant manager by tracking project hours versus contracted hours to prevent burnout and ensure optimal productivity. 3) QA/Test cases for Client Project: Upload client project data, past test cases and input new requirements. Result new cases 4) Convert my code to old Version of Cakephp: Client running an application with old version, write code and it convert to old version of cakephp 5) RFP helper: Upload All document about project and old RFP document and now it can help write based on client requirements and our past RFP My advice? Get involved. Sign up for ChatGPT premium, create your own GPT, or if you're leading a team, develop your own assistants using the API. These digital helpers could become your next competitive edge, much like an diligent interns, ready to streamline your daily tasks and workflows. #AIAssistants #ProductivityTools #Innovation #OpenAI #Teamwork #SJInnovation

After using AI tools every day for the past year, one thing has consistently stood out in boosting my productivity: using AI as an expert transcriptionist. Think about the last time you visited a healthcare professional. Often, they’re typing notes during the conversation, dividing their attention between the computer and their dialogue with you. Now, contrast that with an ER doctor—when they’re in the middle of an emergency, they don’t stop to type. Instead, a trained medical scribe documents everything in real-time, allowing the doctor to focus entirely on patient care. AI can be a powerful “scribe” in any domain. Unlike hiring just anyone, this tool brings built-in expertise to the table—whether you’re building a go-to-market strategy, processing your accounting/finance transactions, or building marketing, campaigns and the associated content creation. With AI as your domain-specific transcriptionist, you can simply speak your thoughts, letting it handle the documentation and freeing you to focus on moving your work forward more quickly. Stop typing. Start talking. Let AI do the work for you. Have you tried using AI tools this way? I'd love to hear your thoughts!