Assistant Tools
11 general-purpose AI assistants compared for everyday work — plans, what each unlocks, and which fits founders, marketers, designers, and analysts.
Chatgpt
OpenAI's general-purpose AI assistant for chat, research, and finished documents, with Projects, memory, plugins, and a Work mode for multi-step tasks.
Claude Cowork
Anthropic's agent for knowledge work that completes multi-step tasks in your folders, connectors, and browser, on desktop, web, and mobile.
Claude
Anthropic's AI assistant app for web, desktop, and mobile, with Projects, connectors, Artifacts, skills, memory, and code execution.
Elicit
Elicit supports academic research with a Research Agent, research reports, and a structured workflow for screening papers and extracting evidence.
Gemini
Google's Gemini app, a general-purpose AI assistant with Deep Research, Gems, Canvas, and direct integration into Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Workspace.
Glean
Glean is an enterprise AI search and assistant platform that retrieves company knowledge through configured connectors and source access controls.
MagicSchool
MagicSchool provides AI lesson, worksheet, quiz and rubric drafts that educators can tailor to supplied readings and instructional goals.
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft's work assistant inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, grounded in your company's Microsoft 365 data, with Researcher and Analyst.
Notebooklm
Google's source-grounded research notebook, renamed from NotebookLM in July 2026, that answers only from your uploaded sources and turns them into media.
Perplexity
An AI answer engine that cites its sources on every response, with a Research mode for long reports, Projects for shared context, and the Comet browser.
RemNote
RemNote combines notes, AI-generated flashcards and quizzes, and spaced review, with a preview step for checking cards against the source.