Wispr Flow / Superwhisper
I stopped typing most things
These tools put voice dictation everywhere on your computer — email, CRM, chat, anywhere you can type. Hold a key, talk, and clean text appears. Speaking is three to four times faster than typing, and it changes how you use AI: people type short lazy prompts because typing is annoying, but they happily talk for two minutes. A two-minute spoken brief gets you a dramatically better answer than a one-line typed one.
Try this
After your next site visit or client call, record three messy minutes of everything in your head. Paste it into your AI with the prompt below, and judge the result against what you would have written yourself at 7pm.
“Turn this voice note into: 1) a short follow-up email to the client, 2) a task list for my team with owners where obvious. Do not commit to any price, date, or availability.”
Claude
Long documents and serious drafts
This is where my RFPs, contracts, and proposal drafts go. I attach the real documents and make it do the reading: what is missing from this RFP, what changed between these two contract versions, where does this itinerary fall apart. Then I have it draft — always with two or three of my past proposals attached so it writes in our voice instead of AI-brochure voice. I review everything before it leaves.
Try this
Attach your last lost proposal and run the prompt below. Uncomfortable and useful.
“Act as the client who received this proposal. What feels generic? What questions does it leave unanswered? Why might they have picked someone else?”
ChatGPT Images
Show the concept before paying a designer
When I need a client to see an idea — a welcome dinner concept, a branded arrival moment, a stage look — I generate the visual instead of describing it in a paragraph nobody reads. The image is not final artwork and does not pretend to be. It exists so the client says “yes, that direction” or “no, warmer” before anyone spends real money on design or décor.
Try this
Thirty seconds, and your proposal has a mood. Swap in your own city and setting.
“Photorealistic image: welcome dinner on a Lisbon rooftop at sunset, one long table for 40 guests, warm string lights, terracotta and white linen, the city and river in the background.”
Suno
A soundtrack in ten minutes
Suno creates original music from a text description. I use it for proposal videos and event teasers — a 30-second track that matches the mood of the program, without a licensing conversation or a stock-music subscription. Describe the feeling, the tempo, and where it will play, and you get something usable in a few tries.
Try this
Describe the feeling, the tempo, and where the track will play.
“Warm cinematic instrumental, builds slowly, Mediterranean guitar, hopeful, 30 seconds, for a corporate incentive trip teaser video.”
Video generators
Rent, never marry
Video generation is the fastest-moving corner of AI — the best tool changes every few months, so I refuse to marry any of them. When a proposal deserves a moving teaser, I check what is currently leading, pay for one month, and cancel. The skill that survives every tool change is the brief: scene, mood, pace, and camera direction, written clearly.
Try this
That one sentence structure — shot, subject, mood, duration — works in every video tool.
“Slow aerial shot over Douro valley vineyards at golden hour, drifting toward a riverside dinner setup, warm and calm, no people visible, 8 seconds.”