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Finseo.ai

Okay, so you’re ready to start monitoring your brand visibility across genAI platforms.

Finseo.ai tracks daily AI prompts and responses to flag mentions of your brand, competitors, or key terms, offering some insight into where and how often you appear.

Plus, Finseo streamlines keyword research using AI clustering; supports content creation with AI-generated articles, images, and charts; and optimizes SEO performance through audits.

GenAI Certification for Business Leaders

To help non-technical pros get up to speed, Google Cloud just launched a new Generative AI Leader certification.

It’s designed for business roles and comes with a free learning path (about 7–8 hours total).

Here’s what it covers:

The basics of gen AI and large language models
How Google Cloud tools like Gemini and NotebookLM work
Prompting tips and AI-powered workflows
Leading AI adoption across an organization

The exam costs $99 and takes 90 minutes. It’s live now.

Endless Tools

Endless Tools is a browser-based resource that makes it easy to build polished 3D visuals, animations, and interactive effects without any code.

It’s especially useful for marketers and designers who need high-impact graphics without relying on a full production team.

The platform supports MP4 animation exports, 4K image rendering, and interactive embeds, plus features like 3D typography, SVG-to-3D conversion, and a growing library of curated 3D objects and materials.

It’s great for campaign key visuals, web graphics, or even lightweight prototypes. Newbies can stick to presets, but 3D nerds can customize accordingly.

Granola

Granola for iOS just dropped. It’s an AI notepad app for those of us constantly bouncing between Zoom calls and in-person meetings.

Hit record and Granola captures, transcribes, and organizes your virtual convos and IRL interactions.

Then, you can search, summarize, or chat with your notes later on. It syncs across your Apple devices and connects to your Google calendar, too.

VERT

VERT is, you guessed it, a file converter.

No file size limit, no ads, all open source.

Image, audio, and document conversions happen right on your device, so your files never leave your hands.

Just drag and drop to convert images, audio, videos, and documents in nearly every major format—from PNG to MP3, DOCX to MKV.

Virallyst

If you’re not lucky enough to have a chronically online social intern to provide a full report on the last 24 hours of digital trends, you have to make do on your own.

What’s the viral moment today? How are our competitors responding? Where can we plug in? It takes hours of [doom]scrolling to get those answers.

Virallyst scans YouTube, newsletters, blogs, Reddit, and more daily to serve you six on-trend, brand-tailored post ideas for each platform every morning.

It even includes visuals, and word is that video’s coming soon.

AI Search Rank

How exactly do you monitor which bots are indexing your products, you ask?

And does AI describe your services accurately? Do you appear ahead of competitors? Are AI models hallucinating facts about your offerings?

Knowatoa’s AI Search Rank can help you understand how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, and other AI tools perceive and rank your brand.

Use it to analyze how chatbots describe your company, compare rankings against competitors, identify inaccuracies and missed opportunities, and even track questions that drive real leads.

TextRanch

Speaking of creativity, here’s palate cleaner: a completely AI-free tool.

Get your copy proofread by real human editors from TextRanch. For real.

Send them a short email or a massive proposal and they’ll edit for grammar, tone, and clarity.

It’s fast (by human standards), it’s easy, and it doesn’t require a subscription.

You just send in your text, and they send back a cleaner, clearer version. Like is 1999.

Airpost

Everyone wants high-quality, high-volume video ads. But getting them made is a slow and expensive process.

Airpost is a new kind of video ad creation platform that uses AI to handle ideation, production, and editing for you.

It generates 30+ custom, voiceover-driven ads in a few hours. You just drop in your Amazon or product link, review a pre-filled creative brief, and let Airpost handle the rest.

It draws from your own footage, plus 400,000+ vertical UGC-style clips and AI-generated visuals to give you a gallery of ready-to-run ads.