The top 5 AI tools for data scientists, designers, PMs, and engineers
You’ve already read enough about how AI is going to be transformative. The problem is, you don’t have time to figure out which tools to use. Well, I have tried them all. And found the one’s you need to consider adopting on your product team.
AI Tools for Product Managers
1. Kraftful: Let AI sift through customer feedback to identify the highest priority product improvements.
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Kraftful is most helpful if your product has app store reviews or community forums because you can plug Kraftful directly into those sources. This tool stands out because it can ingest a large volume of feedback and give you a summary at about the same level of quality as an entry level product manager.
It also integrates GPT-4 enabling you to analyze your user feedback via chat. Just ask the AI, what’s my most requested feature, or is X feature more requested than Y feature, and the AI chat agent will tell you. If you have a ton of user feedback it’s a big time saver.
2. WriteMyPRD: Make writing PRDs a breeze with GPT-3.
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A useful starting point for drafting the initial version of the PRD if you are someone who is daunted by staring at a blank google doc at the start of the PRD writing process. The best part of WriteMyPRD is that it allows you to input a lot of extra context into the initial PRD prompt.
You can specify your target audience or personas, your success criteria, or any dependencies that this feature may rely on on. All of this context results in a higher quality first draft of your PRD.
3. AskFred: a ChatGPT-like assistant for your meetings.
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Everyone seems to be trying to build a virtual assistant to make meetings more effective, but fireflies.ai has been at it since 2019 — quick disclosure: Tyler invested in fireflies.ai’s 2019 seed round. They have a lot of domain knowledge here and learned a ton from their initial product which was solely focused on taking notes during a meeting.
With AskFred they’ve introduced a ton of really cool features that should make their product much more sticky. Our favorite is that besides taking meeting notes, AskFred will summarize and assign out the action items at the end of the meeting.
4. Hypertype: Write emails 10x faster.
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Let’s face it, PMs write a lot of emails. Hypertype stands out from other smart composers, distinguishing itself through its unique approach to email composition. Unlike its competitors, Hypertype doesn’t just provide generic, AI-generated replies. It takes a step further by conducting a comprehensive analysis of your past email and document history.
This thorough examination allows Hypertype to gain a deep understanding of your specific writing style, habitual phrases, and contextual nuances. This granular level of understanding enables Hypertype to generate custom replies that are highly tailored and relevant to you.
The result is not just an AI-generated email, but one that genuinely feels like it’s been written by you. It saves you time, reduces cognitive load, and still allows you to maintain a personal touch in your professional communication.
5. Sense: All of your team’s documents and information automatically organized and interconnected.
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In February, the team at Sense launched a 2.0 version of their AI organization product. You connect it to all of your various sources at work (Google Docs, Figma, Slack, Github, Jira, etc) and it begins to build out connections between them centered around specific topics or features.
Perhaps the most useful feature is that you can create a new slide deck about a feature (say a new landing page) and Sense quickly tracks down all of the relevant docs, such as the PRD over in Google docs and the design file in Figma, putting all the resources you need to make your slides at your fingertips.
AI Tools for Designers
Whimsical: Level up your mind maps with AI-powered suggestions.
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In case you aren’t familiar with a mind map, it’s a diagram used to visually organize information into a hierarchy. They are often used when brainstorming new ideas, visualizing complex info, or organizing the relationships between ideas.
What’s neat about Whimsical, is that they’ve added an AI button to their mind map tool that basically gives you a brainstorming partner. Super useful when you are generating new ideas.
WOZ: Transform natural language into UI/UX wireframes and functional prototypes.
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This is a useful tool that helps product managers and designers collaborate more effectively and quickly turn user stories into prototypes. As a result you can more quickly get feedback from users and iterate.
A big fear of PMs and designers is the team building a feature for weeks and only getting feedback from customers after launch that the feature missed the mark. WOZ can help teams avoid this!
Uizard’s Autodesigner: Turn sketches into wireframes.
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Uizard is a widely-used interface designer with numerous templates for designers and UX professionals. They introduced “Autodesigner,” a tool that generates multiple screen mockups for apps or websites based on a brief description.
By using machine learning algorithms to convert sketches into functional UI elements and creating multi-screen mockups, Uizard makes design tools more accessible and accelerates early product validation, allowing users to obtain high-fidelity designs in a fraction of the time.
Colormind: An AI-based color scheme generator.
Designers should leverage Colormind to simplify the color palette creation process and find inspiration from various sources. Colormind uses a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) trained on Adobe Color data and hand-picked palettes from Dribbble, to generate visually plausible and cohesive color combinations.
It creates harmonious color palettes for designers to use in their projects, considering various factors such as color theory and trends. By automating the palette selection process and extracting colors from diverse sources like artwork and photography, Colormind helps designers save time and discover unique, visually appealing color schemes for their projects.
Genius: An AI copilot for Figma.
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Developed by Diagram, it intuitively comprehends your design intentions, offering autocomplete suggestions using components from your design system. Genius promotes exploration and iteration, actively participating in your design process. This tool is an evolution of Diagram’s first AI tool, Magician, which provided unique icon generation and copywriting assistance.
Genius represents a significant stride towards generating user interfaces, providing recommendations such as button placement and text descriptions, effectively revolutionizing the design process. Diagram continues to innovate, empowering designers to be more creative and productive.
Bonus: AccessiBe: Automatically scan your website for accessibility issues.
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It’s imperative that your products be accessible to those with disabilities, but all too often we forget to do that. With AccessiBe, that won’t happen.
AccessiBe is an AI-based solution that scans and adjusts websites to ensure they meet accessibility standards, helping you create inclusive experiences for users with disabilities.
AI Tools for Software Engineers
Tara AI: An intelligent project management platform designed to streamline software development processes.
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It takes advantage of the latest AI technology to automate the generation of comprehensive project plans, provides precise timeline estimates, and intelligently delegates tasks among team members. In doing so, it enhances both efficiency and productivity, making it an invaluable tool for engineering managers.
Tara AI’s ability to keep the team on track and ensure a balanced workload is not only super useful but transformative. It’s a game-changer, paving the way for a more seamless, structured, and streamlined development process.
Standuply: Standuply is an AI-powered agile coach, designed to redefine how your team conducts standups and other agile processes.
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It’s no secret that inefficiently run standups often drain valuable time – a problem that Standuply solves by automating these meetings, retrospectives, and more, ultimately boosting team productivity. Standuply’s magic doesn’t stop there; it also constructs an internal Q&A system, bridging the gap between team members and internal subject matter experts.
This feature is especially handy when Slack discussions don’t yield a clear resolution. In essence, Standuply acts as a digital facilitator, ensuring smooth operations and enhanced collaboration within your team.
Github Copilot: Autocomplete for programming.
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GitHub Copilot leverages the powerful OpenAI Codex to provide real-time, contextually appropriate code suggestions and even complete functions directly in your editor. Think of it as an autocomplete feature, but for programming.
It’s designed to make your coding sessions more efficient and fluid, reducing the need for frequent StackOverflow or Google searches. Whether you’re a seasoned coder or just starting out, GitHub Copilot is like having a knowledgeable coding companion by your side, ready to assist and streamline your programming tasks, making coding more intuitive and less time-consuming.
AutoRegex: Write error-free Regex, the first time.
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As any programmer would agree, crafting accurate Regex can be a daunting task, often riddled with complications. AutoRegex, with its AI capabilities, demystifies this process by not only assisting you in writing more precise Regex but also enabling you to debug existing Regex using plain English.
This tool transforms the often frustrating Regex writing and debugging process into a more straightforward, efficient, and error-free experience, thereby making it an essential asset in any programmer’s toolkit.
SigOpt: Build better algorithms.
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SigOpt is an innovative AI optimization platform designed to supercharge your algorithms and models. It does this by autonomously searching for the most effective hyperparameters or configurations, thus enabling you to enhance your machine learning outcomes.
With SigOpt, building better, more efficient algorithms becomes a simplified, streamlined process.
Bonus: Codeball: AI-powered code review.
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Codeball is an AI-driven code review tool, engineered to spot bugs in your Pull Requests swiftly and accurately. By letting Codeball review your code, you can ship your products faster and with greater confidence.
The AI behind Codeball is trained on millions of code contributions, allowing it to recognize and alert you about risky code changes effectively.
Bonus: Mintlify: AI-powered documentation.
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Mintlify automates the generation of clear, concise technical documentation by harnessing the power of advanced language models. Mintlify streamlines the traditionally time-consuming documentation process, providing significant time and effort savings for developers and technical writers.
With Mintlify, you can say goodbye to the tedium of manual documentation and embrace a more efficient, automated approach.
AI Tools for Data Scientists
Code Interpreter: OpenAI’s experimental ChatGPT model that can handle CSV data upload.
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OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT plugin revolutionizes data analysis, making everyone an instant analyst. The plugin can autonomously segment customers, decompose seasonality, and conduct linear regression. It has the ability to analyze complex datasets, such as music markets or Bitcoin price trends, and generate visually engaging outputs, like Geo Charts or heatmaps. From fetching and visualizing data from public databases to creating complex radar charts or cohort charts, this tool does it all.
It even simplifies data cleaning and natural language querying, reducing repetitive tasks and boosting productivity. Whether you’re a data scientist or a curious novice, this ChatGPT plugin transforms your data analysis experience, making it faster, simpler, and more insightful.
Ellie AI: Make data-driven decisions with confidence.
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Ellie AI is a comprehensive data design platform, designed to infuse confidence into your data-driven decision-making processes. It equips data teams with the tools to validate business needs and establish tangible value when designing data products.
Offering features such as business and logical data modeling, a universal business glossary, seamless collaboration options, and continuous product reusability, Ellie AI serves as a catalyst in streamlining data processes across organizations.
ProbeAI: A copilot for data analysts.
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ProbeAI acts as a supportive co-pilot for data analysts, helping with repetitive tasks like writing or fixing SQL code, and identifying the appropriate tables to query.
By automating these routine tasks, ProbeAI frees up analysts to focus on deeper, more strategic data explorations, thereby increasing overall efficiency and productivity.
MonkeyLearn: Simple sentiment analysis.
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MonkeyLearn is an AI-powered text analysis tool that simplifies sentiment analysis. It employs advanced natural language processing techniques to analyze user feedback, reviews, or social media mentions.
With MonkeyLearn, you can easily clean, label, and visualize customer feedback, making it a powerful asset for understanding and responding to customer sentiments.
Dataiku: An AI and machine learning platform.
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Dataiku is a robust AI and machine learning platform that facilitates smooth collaboration between data scientists, engineers, and analysts.
It provides a comprehensive suite of tools for data preparation, exploration, model building, and deployment, making it an all-in-one solution for streamlining the data science process.
I’ve teamed up with Tyler Swartz who writes The AI Product Report to find you the best tools to accelerate your product team.