What AI tools are you using right now?

Since we've featured many AI-related travel projects in the past 18 months, I wanted to check in to see what tools people in the Travel Massive community are using to build, develop, or market their travel businesses, blogs, or projects.

Here's my current list. Yes, I'm a minimal AI user... for now!

Currently using:
grok.com, for casual use and asking random engineering questions (unrelated to travel).
Luminar (skylum.com/luminar-ai) for enhancing photos for articles

Planning to use / try out:
cloudinary.com — for automating image descriptions for accessibility (alt tags)
phoenix.new — to prototype a small travel game I want to test
tidewave.ai — AI code assistant to help me build Travel Massive (this platform)

Not using:
Rabbit R1 (rabbit.tech) — this was fun for a few days, but more of a novelty for the form factor (a super bright orange case) and hype.

What AI tools are you using right now? Feel free to have a rant if you like!

Well it depends on need ;) but here's my list

General use:
- Claude.ai - in my opinion the best for general topics

Marketing/Sales:
- relevance.ai for building agent/tools for specific tasks
- Midjourney/gpt - For photos

- Apify - great scraping tool for LLM fine tuning

In Tripso.ai our dev team are now testing new coding assistants, so yet i don't have feedback from them.

Great question. It feels like my list keeps getting longer, but I mostly use:

General Purposes
* ChatGPT
* Claude AI

Research
* Perplexity

Other
* Appify

But what I'm really leaning into is automations. I'm mostly using Zapier/Make.com but have just started playing with N8N as well. Their agents are pretty cool, so I'm letting them do the hard work .

Works in progress are:
Instant Marketing Plan Generator: I just created an automation where people can enter a few details about their business, and they get emailed an automatic marketing plan. Pretty cool if I do say so myself. It's intended to be a lead generation tool for economic development orgs, but so far, it hasn't quite gained traction.

Content (Idea) Aggregator: Another automation I created (just for me) but it would great for journalists, is looping Google News articles into my Notion database, so I have all my "ideas" in one place. For the ideas I like, I tag them as deploy and a second automation runs that uses ChatGPT to turn the article into a suggested LinkedIn post.

CRM: While I love HubSpot, I find it too complicated for my purposes, so I created my own CRM (complete with a note taking form) so I can track all my outreach for free.

So many possibilities, so little time!

Love this! AI is saving / creating me 100+ hours a month now!

ChatGPT
Creating AI Agents
OpusClip
Repurpose.IO

I'm only dabbling with ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok at the moment for research outlines or summaries. I've yet to find an AI agent that can do real or useful jobs for me.

If you use it in your product, Enrique Dans (usually ahead of the pack) says be wary about declaring it. medium.com/enrique-dans/why-ai-powered-products-are-backfiring-with-consumers-a868bff518b0

I'm more in the testing phase than deep daily use for most of them right now – and things change fast! Here's my current list:

For general research:
Mostly OpenAI (90%), occasionally Gemini (10%); especially for deeper topic dives.

For image/video generation:
Midjourney, Recraft, and OpenAI

For marketing & content:
- Lovable and Cursor for generating landing pages and prototyping services
- Canva (mainly for slides and ad creatives, I rarely use its AI features)
- Notion AI: really useful if your business processes already live in the Notion ecosystem.

What's next:
Planning to explore AI agents more, and especially dive deeper into Cursor to see if it can help us build more complex services from scratch – potentially replacing some of the no-code/low-code