Top 10 AI Co-Pilots for Founders & Operators
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Following your exceptional feedback on last week’s “Top 10 AI Co-Pilots for VC Investors” post, today’s focus will be all on AI Co-Pilots for Startup Founders & Operators. @INVESTORS: Add some value and share it with your portfolio companies, they’ll appreciate it ;)
Let’s zoom out for a second: Why AI Co-Pilots at all? While there are many quick wins like browser plugins for lead gen, data extraction, CRM workflows, content creation, and more, recent developments in AI allow us to go deeper than ever before. LLM-driven Co-Pilots can handle more complex tasks that can be chained together, i.e. a sequence of tasks that comprises a full work package. Extremely powerful and with almost zero effort. The problem is just that we don’t know what’s already out there.
In the absence of a GPT Store, I created BrowseGPTs and asked you all for input to assemble the most comprehensive library of AI agents and Customized GPTs (not sure what this is? difference to ChatGPT unclear? check this out). The full list comprises 100+ GPTs, but only few provide actual value. I’ve spent nights & weekends testing them and collected feedback from a broad range of founders & operators - so you don’t need to.
Top 10 Customized GPTs for Founders & Operators
#1 “ResearchGPT” - Market & Trend Research
Description: AI Research Assistant searching 200M academic papers to get science-based answers, and draft content with accurate citations
Use cases: Research trends, technologies, etc.
Proprietary data: Yes, chat.consensus.app (database of scientific research papers)
Data sources: chat.consensus.app, web search, file upload
Assessment: 5/5, great prompts, proprietary (research) data
Creator: Consensus
#2 “Grimoire” - Website Development
Description: Create a website with a sentence
Use cases: Website development
Proprietary data: Yes, 9 files: Grimoire.png, GPTavern.md, Testimonials.md, Readme.md, DALL·E Wizard Illustration.png, RecommendedTools.md, ReleaseNotes.md, Instructions.md, ProjectIdeas.md
Data sources: File upload
Assessment: 5/5, very intuitive, does not require coding skills
Creator: mindgoblinstudios.com
Link: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-n7Rs0IK86-grimoire —> great alternative: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-2Eo3NxuS7-designergpt
#3 “Screenshot To Code GPT” - Website Development
Description: Create a website (HTML/Tailwind/JS code) from a screenshot
Use cases: Website development
Proprietary data: Yes, 9 files: Grimoire.png, GPTavern.md, Testimonials.md, Readme.md, DALL·E Wizard Illustration.png, RecommendedTools.md, ReleaseNotes.md, Instructions.md, ProjectIdeas.md
Data sources: File upload
Assessment: 5/5, powerful instructions, simple & intuitive usage
Creator: godofprompt.ai
Link: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-hz8Pw1quF-screenshot-to-code-gpt
#4 “ConnectionExpert” - Network Search
Description: Leveraging LinkedIn connections to find useful people in your network and generate business insights
Use cases: Find contacts for intros, market research, etc.
Proprietary data: No
Data sources: File upload for anonymized LinkedIn connections, web search
Assessment: 5/5, simple but powerful
Creator: Dries Faems
Link: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-dHRKhMZIj-connectionexpert
#5 “Pitch Deck Analyzer” - Fundraising
Description: Provides feedback on startup pitch decks and helps you prepare your investor conversations
Use cases: Fundraising preparation
Proprietary data: No
Data sources: File upload, web search
Assessment: 5/5, provides really useful trigger for improvement
Creator: Vladyslav Tislenko
Link: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-PaKEiWpDG-pitch-deck-analyzer
#6 “The Negotiator” - Negotiation
Description: Negotiation simulator
Use cases: Fundraising, hiring, career development, sales
Proprietary data: No
Data sources: No
Assessment: 5/5, great prompts and realistic scenarios
Creator: ChatGPT/OpenAI
#7 “VC-GPT” - Fundraising
Description: Pitch training with a VC bot
Use cases: Fundraising preparation
Proprietary data: Yes, "VC questions - General.pdf" (260 questions)
Data sources: File upload
Assessment: 4/5, simple but powerful
Creator: Piotr Bombol
#8 “Startup Contract Crafter” - Legal
Description: Contract interpreter and drafter for startups
Use cases: Pocket lawyer for ad-hoc drafting & sanity check; geo focus on US & LATAM jurisdictions; useful for co-founder agreements, employee agreements, stock option plans, partnership deals, and investment deals
Proprietary data: Yes, 8 docs: Post Money Safe User Guide.pdf, Postmoney Safe - Valuation Cap Only (Singapore) FINAL.docx, Postmoney Safe - Discount Only - FINAL (1).docx, Postmoney Safe - MFN Only - FINAL.docx, Pro Rata Side Letter (Cayman) (4).docx, Latitud MISTO, Merged Document.pdf, Postmoney Safe - Valuation Cap Only (Canada) FINAL.docx, Postmoney Safe - Valuation Cap Only - FINAL (1).docx
Data sources: File upload, web search
Assessment: 4/5, super useful, yet geographically limited
Creator: Arnobio Morelix
Link: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-yC3rD7WMR-startup-contract-crafter
#9 “LogoGPT” - Design
Description: Creating logos
Use cases: For your startup, product, website, and more
Proprietary data: "logo_designer.txt" (=question array to collect most important user preferences for logo design)
Data sources: File upload
Assessment: 3/5, great inspiration but requires fine-tuning; bad with textual components
Creator: Vladyslav Tislenko
#10 “Co-founder Fit” - Founder Assessment
Description: Uses a set of questions from Y Combinator for co-founders to assess compatibility before deciding to work together
Use cases: Check your compatibility to anticipate potential conflicts
Proprietary data: Yes, "Questions.pdf" (Y Combinator Survey)
Data sources: File upload
Assessment: 3/5, good prompts, proprietary data
Creator: Community Builder
Conclusion
The highlighted GPTs come with different strengths & weaknesses and the problem of using multiple in parallel requires context switching and thus leads to inefficiency. The more GPTs in regular use, the higher the inefficiency and the higher the uncertainty of which GPT might be the right one for a specific intent.
In one of my next posts, I’ll share how I built a unified GPT to rule them all (=serving all of the above use cases and more), convert it into an “Assistant” and connect it with tools and communication channels such as Slack. Said differently, an AI Co-Pilot that is deeply integrated into your workflows and can be controlled from a single interface.
Stay driven,
Andre
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