Software built on AI models: note takers, dictation, assistants and agents, and what they're actually good for.
A web scraping API fetches pages and hands back clean data. For feeding an AI app, Firecrawl is the fullest toolkit and Context.dev costs less per page; for protected shops, ScrapingBee, Zyte and Bright Data do better. What 10,000 pages cost on each, and what UK law says.
AI SEO means two things: AI doing your SEO work, and getting your business named in ChatGPT and Google's AI answers. Search Console is free and now reports AI Overviews. Ranked AI does it for you from $99 a month per site, Semrush or Ahrefs suit doing it yourself, and Peec AI tracks AI answers from €70 a month billed yearly. Whatever writes the pages, Google expects a person to check them.
An AI note taker transcribes your meetings and writes the summary and action items for you. If you meet on Teams, Zoom or Meet, the built-in notes may be enough; Fathom is the best free app, Granola the pick for no bot and Circleback for notes sent straight to your other tools.
Dictation software types what you say into any app. Most people should start with the free dictation in Mac, iPhone and Windows 11; Wispr Flow gives the most polished British text everywhere, Superwhisper keeps it offline, and Dragon still suits Windows users who want to pay once.
