The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Here's a quick overview, but keep reading for a deep dive into my experience with the apps and who they're best for. You can manage all the conversations directly within Brevo to handle any questions easily and quickly, and built-in chatbot and automation features can reduce your customer service load.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Automation used to be the best way to do that. And while AI has since come on the scene, it hasn't replaced automation—it's made it better. Now, I delegate to AI automation. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers. Table of contents: What is AI automation?

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

TL;DR) ConvertKit alternatives at a glance Tool Best For Key Advantage Starting Price Reviews Campaign Monitor by Marigold Professional businesses needing on-brand emails Highly customizable emails and powerful prebuilt automated journeys Free Plan; Paid from $12/month 4.7/5 Ready to find your perfect email marketing match?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

At first glance, Jasper and ChatGPT seem similar—they're both generative AI tools that can create content in a split second. But there's a big difference here: ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that's flexible enough to handle just about any task you throw at it, while Jasper is a specialized AI marketing tool.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Frameworks give teams set guidelines, processes, and best practices for finishing projects on time and under (or at least within) budget. Agile Best for: Innovation projects, changing requirements Agile is a collaborative, flexible project management methodology designed by a group of software practitioners in 2001.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

" This guide will teach you everything you need to know about AI orchestration. ." " This guide will teach you everything you need to know about AI orchestration. Table of contents: What is AI orchestration? How AI orchestration works AI orchestration vs. related concepts What are the benefits of AI orchestration?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

To help you decide between the two: Personal is best for individual creators because it gives access to creator monetization tools and a wider audio library. Business is best for brands that want more detailed analytics, clickable links in bio, and access to the commercial music library only. AI can speed up every part of the process.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

I tested both apps to see how their features compare and what teams they're best for. Zendesk for Service and Jira Service Management are two of the most popular help desk solutions on the market. Keep reading for my breakdown of Zendesk vs. Jira. user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month* user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month*

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

This is where swimlanes can be your best friend. The visual workflow, as depicted in the image above, might function like this: Trigger: A new lead is captured, when someone submits a lead capture form on your website or provides their details through a chatbot. A campaign flowchart can be your strategic map.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

SalesIQ Sales An app to add chat functionality to websites, track visitor information, and create chatbots for visitor engagement. Desk Service Empower your agents to deliver delightful customer experiences, stay organized, and become productive with advanced tools and AI assistance. Zendesk vs. Zoho Desk: Which ticket app is best?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Use interfaces, data tables, and logic to build secure, automated, AI-powered systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

A lot of AI chatbots all feel the same. Sure, they use different models under the hood, but whether you're using ChatGPT , Meta AI , or Google Gemini , the experience is pretty similar. Prompt goes in, generated AI response comes out—which is why Perplexity AI is so interesting.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

That means automation tools need to meet enterprise-grade security standards and offer transparency into how AI is being used. Here are a few of the most common approaches to enterprise automation (each of which might use a mix of BPA, RPA, integrations, rule-based automation, and AI). Access and permissions.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Designed by Anthropic, Claude is a powerful chatbot that excels at summarizing text, writing code, and even creating content—everything you'd expect from an advanced AI assistant. Try Zapier Chatbots Create free custom AI chatbots to engage customers and take action with built-in automation. The best part?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Below are some best practices (with practical tips) to help you get the most out of your IT automation efforts. Pro tip: Use Zapier Canvas —a free AI-powered diagramming tool—to map out processes and workflows from scratch. Pro tip: As you expand, layer in AI tools to handle tasks that go beyond rule-based automation.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Communication pros chatbot template Try the template Built by Carly Moulton, Zapier's Head of Community Marketing, this template includes five AI-powered chatbots designed to support public relations and communications work. How can you best phrase that communication so it has a positive impact?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

Read more on how to effectively add AI to your Zapier workflows. Model Best for Inputs Outputs Context window Pricing GPT-4o Multimodal tasks (text, images, audio) Text, Audio, Images Text, Audio 128,000 tokens $10/M tokens for text; $80/M tokens for audio per output tokens GPT-4.1 You can use AI and automation to bridge that gap.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

I've been writing about AI since before most people knew what it stood for, and still, barely a week goes by where I don't have to look up some new term or technical topic. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

I've been covering AI developments for almost a decade now, and the idea of AI tools that can be trusted to operate independently has always been exciting—and just out of reach. Agentic AI is the latest attempt to create a framework for what these tools would look like and how they could safely operate.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 23, 2025

For years, I've relied on Fireflies as my AI meeting assistant during client calls. is an AI note taking app that automatically transcribes, summarizes, and analyzes your meetings. What sets Granola apart from other AI meeting assistants —aside from its emphasis on your own human notes—is how it actually works. Granola.ai

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Last weekend, I spent 60 seconds watching an AI tool create a website for me. While pre-designed templates have long existed as a way to make the web design process less painful, the real paradigm shifts have come from recent advances in AI. Wix is best for small businesses. Squarespace is best for brands and solopreneurs.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Keeping track of all the new AI models getting released at the moment is practically a full-time job. OpenAI is one of the most important AI companies. Its ChatGPT chatbot and DALL·E 2 image generator essentially kickstarted the current AI boom. It's best to consider GPT-4.1 Fastest and cheapest GPT-4.1

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 3, 2024

Should I use AI to help with a blog? These are the questions on your mind when thinking about the best way to approach an inbound marketing plan— so let’s address them! Check out these 25 best explainer video examples. Use chatbots to answer potential clients’ questions and personalize the experience on your website.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 23, 2025

Make your spreadsheet work for you Automate Excel And it's a shame because Excel is the perfect place for AI. Excel Copilot examples Copilot in Excel vs. Gemini in Google Sheets Add AI automation to your spreadsheets What is Microsoft Copilot in Excel? It's essentially an AI chatbot with deep hooks into Excel.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

But it's perfectly valid to take a break to see what other AI chatbots are available. Build your own AI chatbot with no-code Here's how Allow me to save you a dozen Google searches (or ChatGPT prompts). I spent time talking to some of the best AI chatbots to see how they measure up.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

The AI chatbot wars are heating up, and two of the biggest contenders are OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta's Meta AI. Both are powerful and capable AI-powered chatbots based on state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs), but they do have plenty of differences. Meta AI ChatGPT Models Llama 4 GPT-4.1

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

We've all seen a lot of AI-generated videos floating across social media. Most are dead internet theory at worst, cute at best. It's been launching AI offerings for every major category (think Firebase Studio for vibe coding), and Veo is its answer to AI-generated videos. Google AI Ultra ($249.99

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The advent of the digital technology economy changed this and now Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has come along and is bringing a range of benefits to small businesses. What is Generative AI? To do this, Generative AI technology uses deep learning techniques that analyze and learn patterns from very large datasets.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

But it's hard to land on the best idea out of the dozens flying around inside your head. 4 workflows to better market your brand on social media Read now If you're stuck in this cycle, you can use AI to break it and get things moving forward. To get the most useful answers, you need to give it as much context as possible.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 22, 2023

There is a classic blog post written by Paul Graham called “Do Things That Don’t Scale”. This will help you decide where your efforts are best used. A small, maybe irrelevant note here is that I worry about the longevity of SEO with the advent of generative AI like chat GPT. Trust me; I’ve been there.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2024

For instance, if blogging has been a fertile ground for leads and brand awareness, then it’s time to amplify your efforts. We hired quickly, filling gaps with the best possible candidate. Leveraging Technology and Automation Today’s software is really incredible, especially with AI in the mix.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. In any case, AI tools are not going away — and indeed has expanded dramatically since its launch just a few months ago. Major brands are experimenting with it, using the AI to generate ad and marketing copy, for example.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

289 days ago, 3 of us created a no-code custom chatbot building platform in 4 days — and launched it on ProductHunt. For example : If you get a quote from a vendor and you sense that he is NOT using ChatGPT (or AI) and the quote is based on a 2022 way of doing things, stop right there! That is some serious company there!

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

The best news apps Apple News for access to a large variety of paywalled news Google News for free access to a wide range of news Flipboard for designing your own news experience Ground News for getting a variety of perspectives Rize for AI-summarized news What makes the best news app?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 25, 2023

As this chatbot continues to make waves across the digital world, becoming a hot topic of conversation both in boardrooms and in coffee shops across the globe, many entrepreneurs are seeing this impressive AI tool as the perfect solution to their content creation bottlenecks. and more articles from the EO blog. Enter ChatGPT.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Not surprisingly, a survey done by Statista found that content marketing was believed to be the most effective digital marketing technique according to marketers — followed by marketing automation, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI). How to boost marketing efficiency with AI. Faster content creation.

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