AI Tools for Strategy and Research - GT #32
Getting expert advice, how to do deep research with AI, prompt strategy, comparing different AIs side-by-side, creating mini-apps and an AI Agent that can critically analyze any social media channel
Reading time: 6 mins.
Beautiful sunshine and blue skies on this side of the planet today. That’s how most mornings have been here in the Gulf of Thailand since the start of August. Temperatures are in the 90’s and beyond, but the soft sea breeze makes life as enjoyable as ever, even without air conditioning.
I am so lucky I can work in a living room that has two big sliding glass doors, a wide window on the left and an always open door on my right. While indoor, it’s really like being outside under the shadow. Birds and butterflies fly through and an electric fan keeps me cool even when there’s no wind.
On the mini-apps front - where I keep challenging myself in creating a new useful one every month (by vibe coding with AI) - I am still a bit in the dark for the upcoming 5th release.
I have invested quite some time in creating an AI Interview Recorder, but as it takes form, I have become a bit skeptical about its real usefulness and technical limitations.
How many people among my readers really want to be voice interviewed by their AI and then publish that stuff?
Is the output quality of my audio recorder sufficient?
I am not really sure.
Maybe I’ll drop the AI Interview Recorder for the time being and rush to build a different mini-app in the time left.
One way in which you can start helping me on this front, is to vote your preference in what you think I should build next. Here a few potential candidates:
This issue focuses on interesting strategy and research AI tools I have recently discovered and tried out.
After reading, let me know in the comments what you enjoyed and found most useful.
In this issue, discover AI tools for:
Getting Expert Advice
AI Advisors - Instant Personal Advisory Board
Select your virtual AI Advisory Board. Each advisor brings his unique perspective, expertise, and wisdom to help you make better decisions. Choose up to 6 advisors for your personal board.7-day free trial
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Stanford STORM
STORM (“Synthesis of Topic Outlines through Retrieval & Multi-perspective Question-asking”) is a free, open-source AI tool developed at Stanford’s OVAL lab. It researches any topic on the web and produces a long, Wikipedia-style article, complete with citations. Think of it as an AI research assistant that first gathers reliable sources and creates a structured outline, then transforms that outline into a polished draft.
One of STORM’s key features is its roundtable mode. In this mode, the system generates a simulated discussion between multiple virtual experts, each representing a different perspective on your chosen topic. As the user, you can step into this conversation at any time, asking your own questions, steering the debate, or digging deeper into a particular viewpoint. The discussion evolves dynamically based on what you ask, making it feel less like reading a static summary and more like attending a live panel where you can interrupt, challenge, and explore new angles..
This makes STORM especially useful for exploring “unknown unknowns”—topics where you don’t yet know what you should be asking. Ideal for scholarly research, critical analysis, and learning by immersion in a multi-perspective conversation.
Doing Deep Research with AI
How To Do It Right by Torsten Walbaum
DeepResearch is an absolutely mind-blowing feature, if you know how to use it..
This in-depth guide illustrates how to do proper deep research, which AIs are better at it, caveats, tips, things to avoid. Excellent read, highly recommended.
Improving Your AI Prompt Strategy
Meta Prompt Method [SMARTCHAIN] - Rahim Hirji
Most prompts are vague. They start in the middle of a thought. They assume the AI knows the context, your goal, and the stakes. It doesn’t. This is a practical simple method that teaches you how to speak to AI clearly, so it gives you back what you actually need, not what it thinks you meant.
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Master Prompt Method - Tiago Forte [Video] [48’:06”]
Useful video to watch. It gives you a good idea of the kind of information you need to start collecting and feeding to your AI, so that it has a complete context / profile of you / your company, your audience, what you are after and why.
Comparing Results from Different AIs
Model Playground
Compare and evaluate different AI models for image, video and 3D generation, side by side. 100+ models. See how Stable Diffusion, Grok, OpenAI, Ideogram, Flux, Google Imagen perform against each other, what quality they can produce, how fast they are.Sign-up and get 500 credits for free
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Internet.io
AI answer aggregator. Allows side-by-side cross-checking AI responses across multiple models. Compare the results from all major AI LLMs: ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity, Meta, Claude, Mistral, and pick what you prefer by saving your favorite answers into folders.Free while in Beta - *A paid model for higher-volume users will launch in Q3 2025
*Has also an Agent-Builder, with an upcoming integrated monetization model and store, which seems to the ultimate use this platform was built for.
Creating an AI Agent for Social Media Analysis
Short video (4’ mins) illustrates how to create an AI agent that will weekly check a LinkedIN channel (yours or a client’s), analyze it and create a report highlighting the good stuff and the areas for improvement. Once properly trained with what to look for and your very own evaluation criteria, it can start doing quality work and help you start to scale.
Free plan includes 500 AI credits/mo
Starts at $19/mo
Summarizing YouTube Videos
Truly excellent summarizer not just for Youtube videos but also for any Web page or PDF. Gives you instant access to the full time-stamped transcript of any video, and the option to extract a summary by using your favorite AI LLM. Have been using it for a long time and like 2M other users, can’t recommend it more.
100% free
To find out how to best use it check this video intro by Kazuki Nakayashiki (8’:45”)
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Alternative YouTube summarizer. In-depth time-stamped summary, access to full transcription.
100% Free
Creating Mini-Apps with AI
New experimental app from Google Labs makes it very easy to create mini-apps without coding. Two use modalities: 1) Remix apps from Opal gallery or 2) Create your own. What’s unique about it compared to other no-code app builders? Editable visual workflow of what the app does. This makes it much easier for non-coders to decide, order, refine and improve what they want their mini-app to do.
Intro video by Google - 2’:04”
100% free
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Poe App Creator
I have used Poe to start my exploration journey into vibe coding back in March, and nonetheless the many bumps and defeats I run into while using it, I think it is a good platform for someone just wanting to explore app creation through an LLM. Poe integrates all the best AIs including GPT-4.1, Claude Opus 4, DeepSeek-R1, Runway, ElevenLabs and many others. Available across web, Win, Mac, iOS and Android.Free credits to start.
Pay to get more credits - from $4.99
Tasting Award-Winning AI Film
From the AIFF 2025 AI Film Festival
This AI film could be seen as suggesting that creativity, above all else, is an act of curation. It's a claim that nothing, truly, is original.
The winner of the festival, “Total Pixel Space” is a nine-minute film demonstrating that the number of possible images or films is greater than the number of atoms in the universe and argues that photographers and filmmakers may be seen as discovering images that already exist in the possibility space rather than creating something new.
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[Tools] are the scaffolding that strengthens the individual’s ability to construct, adapt, and refine [his] own methodologies.
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