# How to Start a Business With AI in 2026 (5 tools)

**Channel:** Jon Law 
**Source:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeKEyRxiNAo
**Transcript page:** https://www.withtranscript.ai/video/jeKEyRxiNAo

## Chapters

- 0:00 — AI Tools for Business Ideation
- 5:41 — Building Products with AI Coding
- 10:33 — AI for Sales and Outreach
- 12:58 — Automating Fulfillment Workflows
- 16:26 — Admin and Management AI Assistants

## Transcript

**[0:00]:** so AI has been the big thing on this channel recently and we've run experiments spanning AI mercs robots travel apps and AI Consulting business and plenty more what I have not done to date is catalog some of the core tools that have been most helpful and valuable while creating all of those AI driven products and services so in this video I will cover five of the most essential AI tools for you if you are either running a business currently or looking to run a business and each of those tools will cover One Core aspect of the entrepreneurial process ideation and feedback product and service creation sales service or product fulfillment and finally admin or the management side of running and growing a business number one is the ideation phase so that's when you're looking to get an idea about a business or a product you could start or more likely you already have that idea

**[0:56]:** and you're looking to improve it and get it to a point where you can go raise funding get team members or really just go to market now ai is really useful here not necessarily in generating creative ideas or concepts but in doing everything else so giving you the information context or ideas to improve your ideas rapidly and also just identify easy areas for improvement or identify errors because often these ideas are in a space that you don't have exposure to Prior or if you're looking to say start a business based off something specific that you're interested in there are likely many other sides many other parts of creating that business that you don't have to be creative in or get creative feedback on you just need the AI assistance in what's the norm here what do people normally do and what am I doing that's really really wrong or how could I improve what I

**[1:51]:** currently have now to this end I want to highlight one kind of tool that's actually pretty similar across two different chat Bots or AI model out there and those are deep researched by Gemini and CA GPT and both of these tools are AI chat Bots which are different from the other ones we'll discuss shortly in this video and what they do is just do a very deep dive into whatever subject or question you have you really have to see it just to see what they actually do so let's go dive into a quick demo and cover some common use cases okay so I've pulled up both Gemini and CA GPT here and what I'm going to do is switch to the Deep research models so in Gemini that's 1.5 Pro with deep research and in sha GPT we're going to go to O3 mini high and then we can just press deep research to enable

**[2:42]:** that feature and then we need a prompt so just as a demo here let's say we're researching I'm researching the construction software space I want to start a start a business in this space so help me build a full competitor landscape with information about all competitors large and small public and startups so super basic prompt there quite General and we'll do the same heing Gemini so what these are going to do are scour the internet and build a very deep thorough kind of report about these subjects so I'll click Start research for Gemini in same thing here you're going to ask a few questions I'll just say all segments all regions give me all info but organize it well with reports graphs Etc and focus yes on startups so then you can see here for deep research with Gemini it's researching 12 websites right now and that number will go up over time and GPT

**[4:07]:** is about to do the same so it'll start research and it'll scour all these different websites so I'm going to let these run for a few minutes this takes anywhere from 3 to 15 minutes and then we'll come back when it's done and already here it's being another you know 15 seconds since I last spoke and it's researching 350 websites so you can get an idea of just the depth of This research now we can see something similar with tech jpt where it has a whole report and then summarizes that right here so those are the Deep research tools I'd say just give them a go if you haven't tried them yet and uh see how they work for you now another key aspect of starting a business is its website the digital home for your idea where you can sell products tell your story rank on search engines and plenty more if you are

**[4:58]:** starting a business business this year look no further than Dot online for your domain Extinction the word online is part of keyword searched over half a billion times every month all around the world and that is why do online is a perfect fit for all types of businesses whether a kombucha brand like radiate in Miami or a global pop star and this is really important while it's often hard to find the perfect.com domain extension because it's so saturated and it's been around forever there are plenty ofonline names available that can perfectly match your business or idea just head over to getonline or the link in the description to claim that discount and get started now

**[5:41]:** category number two is building or creating your actual product or service now this one really is use case dependent because if you're building a drone company versus a real estate company versus a YouTube channel the AI tools that could most help you are going to look radically different across those verticals so for sake of brevity I'll give you one tool but kind of two that fits into the type of products and services that we create for videos on this channel so they're focused on programming and around digital products and services or digital parts of otherwise physical businesses like a website or automation now if you do anything digital nowadays I think you're going to be better off in a lot of small ways and also some really big ones if you can code but just in the last few years actually you don't have to you can use tools like I want to go over

**[6:32]:** right now now the main tool that I want to mention is repet and the second is is Claud because Claude is a chatbot which is really really good at coding but it's not as complete as far as the whole stack of creating and deploying applications goes so we'll look at that in a second as well but the main focus for this category is repet repet is basically an entire integrated code environment so you can converse with the app that you're building you can get it built for you and you can deploy it so you can actually push it from code to the web so that anyone can search for it and use it very easily so with that said let's jump into another demo I want to do a little demo of rep but to do that I want to just use AI for the full stack since that is what this video is about

**[7:17]:** so I'm going to go to Jack GPT and ask what is a repet app or business we could start so let's see what GPT says and then let's just choose one of those so let's just go for number one here so an online code learning platform uh and then what I'll do is I'll grab not just the title but the whole little description here and then I'll go to rep.com so this is the account or the homepage and you start just by describing what you want to build so uh I'll just paste that in there and I'll click Start building and then what what's really useful about rep uh is that you can actually edit the underlying code as you proceed it is a code environment in that sense you you can also deploy directly from repet so you can connect your domain in repet and then just like say GitHub Pages you can deploy

**[8:14]:** straight through there so what repet is doing now is it's going to generate a plan for this app um as opposed to just starting right away and then once I approve the plan it'll go and actually build that and from there on out o there's the plan so it'll build the initial prototype and then we'll say we want a database we want stripe we want code execution environment and real-time mentorship features so we'll approve that plan and then this is the actual editor so we can edit the code over here on the left um there's a lot more that that you can do uh but now this thing is going to go and just build the app for us and then we can converse as we want to further develop the features and the capabilities so I can say um you know after it finishes this well let's make the homepage more intuitive right let's

**[9:05]:** add animations whatever you want this thing will build um that said it does get stuck if you're talking about really Advanced features and you do always want to know what you're building but as far as just validating Concepts MVPs and learning about all of this goes it's a really amazing tool in that sense and you can see just how much work it's doing for us here and I'll let it run for just uh you know the rest of this prompt and then we'll see the demo it builds okay so it's been running for a few minutes now and we can see what it's built and you can see there's courses profile there's going to be a login or registration feature in here and then this is actually a fullon you know application so we can click Start Learning and in this case there's an error because it doesn't actually built that out but if we

**[9:53]:** paste that in and say you know actually build the course Pages then it'll go and start doing that so you can see how quickly it starts working on these things and that's what makes it such a a powerful tool for full stack development so we'll let it finish out this prompt and then we'll wrap the demo up there okay so there we go so now we can click on start learning and it actually built the page so you just keep prompting it like that and that's how you can get an app built and with that said let's get back to the video okay now category number three is sales and AI is affecting every part

**[10:33]:** of the sales process just across the board really whether that's generating leads all the way through follow-ups and there's even really cool startups that can automate your entire CRM kind of data entry and updates which if you've worked in sales you know is a major paino now these videos all have one thing in common I used or mentioned one specific platform which is useful for sales and outbounds specifically cold email and incorporates a lot of AI features that make it a lot better in my opinion versus competitors that is instantly. a so let's jump in and I'll show you around okay so one of the great core features of instantly in the AI part of it starts with this right start your search with AI and the associated lead finder and this is where we can find leads uh that'll plug into our campaigns and then the what instantly really does well is is emails so we can create uh campaigns in this tab and this is an account that

**[11:33]:** I'm using for another video and we're starting a real business out of so you can create create campaigns and then there's all kinds of features in here that relate to AI for example if we go to options uh we can get you know Auto optimized a testing um and we can get AI to actually write the emails as well uh there's also a lot of other great features that involve AI in in various ways they're all very useful if you want to learn more about this you can go watch some of the other videos I've done where I do kind of a deep dive into outbound email specifically but for now that's a rundown of instantly and as far as using it um there are there well there's really One Core feature that that I want to emphasize here and that relates to email accounts so if we go to add new something you can

**[12:23]:** do is done for you email setup or pre-warmed accounts and normally uh it takes you know two weeks to get your emails warmed and if you just want to test or validate an idea then you can just go over to pre-warmed accounts right here you can purchase you know one or two of those get some emails going set up the forwarding domain to go to your actual business domain and then place that order and get started you know ASAP within an hour or two so that is something as well that I'd i' recommend and is very useful okay now we're on to number four which is service or product fulfillment so this is actually either

**[12:58]:** delivering a physical product or completing the service that you sell by this I mean the work that is involved in accomplishing the deliverables that you promis to customers when you sold them a product or service whether that's manufacturing and shipping the product to send it to them or whether it's completing a service say over the course of a month 6 months or a year plus that you sold them the tool in this category is an incredibly useful one for automating a lot of busy work and while it often incorporates AI it does not necessarily have to that tool is make.com and it's like zappier if you're familiar with that platform but a lot more AI heavy and in some it lets you build automations and sequences that would otherwise be things that you would do manually people build all kinds of cool things on here that you can see in their little community library and

**[13:51]:** that said let's jump into three specific demos this is inside make.com and this honestly is probably my favorite tool this whole video and that's because what this basically does is lets you visually create a lot of what people used to program just to make their life in their business easier and even when you think about so many and so much of the value and the whole just software industrial space like all the softwares that have created trillions in value over the past few decades it at their core they just do a lot of things like this right like uh AI web scraping with Google Sheets creating notion database items for Google form responses like just those those little things um and now you can do them with with make and with AI so I pulled out three specific demos here or examples one is where um you have and if if you if you're familiar

**[14:47]:** with zapier you know all about this but basically you connect these to the various uh services that you you want to automate uh and then you have some kind of kind of Trigger or something that initiates these uh um you know workflows or sequences to start so in this case every single time an email comes in then it's going to send that to ca GPT and then CA GPT is going to summarize it and then it's going to send it to a slack message of your choice and that's just say if you want to get updates in slack about important emails and C GPT because it's intelligent can decide what information to give you and when or you can prompt it in a certain way or whatnot this is similar this is creating Google calendar events from notion so if you update something and let's say sales rep updates something in notion then something will

**[15:38]:** happen in you know Google Calendar and you can also set up a filter here so that only uh when you know XYZ happens in notion then does a calendar event get created and then this final one is when um a Google Sheets row is updated then an email is triggered so that could also be some kind of sales process where when a lead is added to a sheet then you want an email to be sent to them um really if I were you and you haven't seen anything like this before I would just create an account go to templates and start scrolling through here because there are such interesting ones and I'm sure if you have a business um many of these will be applicable to you and if not it's just really fun to think about how you can use these so that's make um it's also good to watch a tutorial video on

**[16:26]:** how exactly to make this all work but it's all really simple once you get just the kind of UI uh and that is make.com now finally category and product number five relates to the admin and management side of running the business so everything behind the scenes and for this one I have a really cool tool called Lena and specifically their autonomous agent I first saw their website a few months ago and I saw this demo and was immediately like that is epic and they have some pretty big name customers as well it turns out that it really is useful in a lot of ways and can help you feel like you're talking to your business and have a little Jarvis like thing in your pocket to help you get a lot of things done a lot faster and so whether it's HR Finance contracts just trying to remember things that you've done or clients or

**[17:15]:** whatever that is behind the scenes in my experience it's very very useful and so let's dive into that platform as well so the constraint with Lena is really the amount of information and access that you give it so this is just the demo on their website because I don't want to show you any you know personal information and on the left here for Enterprise knowledge we can see just it and HR so these are where you can say upload documents so the AI is information about your company and that's where you can ask questions like uh how many masks are in stock or for example in in the sense of um you know the forms there or the information what's the group email for sales and then it'll pull from those documents to answer that and then as far as actions goes this is where it can actually do things for you like add email

**[18:09]:** to User Group get access to software check battery health and so on and there's a lot of uh startups coming out like there's one called join airgo that's in wcom right now that are focused around things like making your CRM you know fully autonomous and Lena uh focuses on that same kind of Niche but for the entirety of a business and then you can kind of add these over time just given the the access so that's what Lena does uh again I found it super useful uh especially for clients so I would recommend that you just give it a go so those are the five tools for this video I hope you go out there and build some really cool things make sure to send me them if you do and that said I will see you in the next one cheers