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- Which AI model is best for workflow automation?Zapier · toolsToday, AutomationBench joins Fireworks' Specialized Intelligence Index (SII), bringing business workflow automation to a growing collection of practitioner-built benchmarks that compare AI models on real work. We're one of 32 new partners in this round, alongside teams covering fields like finance, healthcare, software, and ML research. AutomationBench measures whether an AI agent can finish a bus
- What is Perplexity AI?Zapier · toolsThere comes a time in every professional's life when they have to choose a favorite AI assistant. I didn't expect to pick a search engine. Someone recommended Perplexity to me as a research tool. Since I'm a content writer, I spend a lot of time checking facts and tracking down references. AI-powered search with sources I could easily inspect sounded promising, and as I used it more, I kept discov
- The 6 best AI image generators in 2026Zapier · toolsAI image generators have been brewing (generating?) up a storm for the last few years. If you've been on social media, watched prime time news shows, or ordered from GrubHub, AI-generated images have been impossible to miss. These kinds of AI-generated images are everywhere, and sometimes you won't even realize. If you want to join in the fun, or add some AI-powered features to your business workf
- OpenAI models: Every model (including GPT-6.1) and what it's best forZapier · toolsKeeping track of all the new AI models getting released at the moment is practically a full-time job. The GPT-6 models were first released about two months after the GPT-5.6 series, which itself was released less than three months after GPT 5.5 you get the picture. I've been writing about OpenAI's models for the past few years, and it feels like every time I publish an article, another new model d
- Gemini Omni: What it is and how to use itZapier · toolsIt feels like it was only last week when spotting an AI-generated video was easy peasy. All you had to do was look for the very obvious tells like when a dog spawned a mysterious fifth limb mid-run or crowds of people walked through an otherwise lively city like they were loading in (it's exactly as unnerving an image as you're picturing). Those seams are getting harder to find. For better or wors
- The 7 best AI agents in 2026Zapier · toolsAI agents were the promise of 2024, the hype of 2025, and the expectation of 2026 and beyond. The category has matured, and a handful of agents are ready to use out of the box, with tool access, task completion, and guardrails for the data they touch. I've spent a lot of time with AI agents, and I have some opinions about which ones stand out. Based on my own experiences, hours of testing from the
- How a recruiting agency uses Claude and Zapier MCP to find the candidates who aren't lookingZapier · toolsCurtis Key has been building automation for about 20 years, first with basic code and scripts, then in Salesforce at a real estate brokerage that grew from 8 to 105 agents. But when hiring became the brokerage's hardest problem, he founded Blue Castle Agency, a recruitment firm exclusively for real estate and property management. Curtis keeps one idea in front of the team: the best candidates aren
- How to implement AI training for employeesZapier · toolsMost teams don't struggle to implement AI in their daily workflows because they're resistant to change they struggle because they haven't been given the structure to learn how to use it effectively. Employees who receive formal AI training are far more likely to see it as a boost to their productivity and efficiency. Yet while 63% of executives think AI literacy is valuable for their workforce, le
- Use one Zapier MCP server across all your AI toolsZapier · toolsMost teams don't stick to one AI tool. Your support team works in Claude, a few people swear by ChatGPT, and your engineers live in Cursor. Until now, each of those tools needed its own Zapier MCP server, with its own apps and skills to set up. Now you can connect all of them to one Zapier MCP server, and they share everything on it. Set up your apps and skills once Say your support team uses Clau
- API documentation: What it is and how to write it (with examples)Zapier · toolsBack before we carried the entirety of human knowledge around with us in our pockets, we printed instruction manuals on paper and included them with just about anything more complicated than a spoon. They were important, too. For instance, if I bought a video game with the manual missing, I'd have to learn the ins and outs myself through trial and error (which meant a whole lot of button mashing).
- The best all-in-one messaging app in 2026Zapier · toolsThere are too many messaging apps. Meta alone has three: Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. Throw in regular texting like SMS and iMessage, secure apps like Signal, work apps like Slack, and even offbeat options like Discord and X, and the situation just gets silly. But what if you just had one app where you could message your friends, family, work colleagues, and everyone else? That's what Beepe
- Webflow vs. WordPress: Which is better for your website? [2026]Zapier · toolsAs a web designer who's built dozens of websites in WordPress, I have a confession to make: I'm not really fond of it. WordPress is over two decades old, its foundations are still built on rickety 2003-era technology, and there are a few layers of modern code digitally duct-taped on top. Thousands of unvetted plugins sit in WordPress's marketplace, any one of which could unwittingly (or wittingly)
- OpenCode vs. Claude Code: Which AI coding tool is best? [2026]Zapier · toolsImagine Claude Code is a taxi. You state the objective, and it starts driving. You're impressed with the decisions it's making, until it stops in the middle of the road: "Sorry, you've hit 100% of your usage." Now, you either turn over your wallet or give up and look for coffee while you wait for the reset. This is why OpenCode surged in popularity when it launched: the car is free, and you can sw
- The 3 best free RSS reader apps in 2026Zapier · toolsIf you want to really follow a publication, writer, or something else online and see everything they publish not just what some social media algorithm throws your way the best way to do it is with an RSS reader. RSS (it stands for Really Simple Syndication) has been around since the '90s, and it's a way for sites to publish a feed of all their content in a way that can be easily parsed and aggrega
- What is Google Vids? And how to use itZapier · toolsI teach classes asynchronously at a local college, which means I spend a lot of time trying to find new ways to create fun and engaging content that students will actually log in to watch. My lectures are all built on Google Slides, so naturally, Google Vids Google's AI video generator caught my eye. Vids lets you generate video clips from natural language prompts, complete with narration (from yo
- The 7 best employee management software and apps in 2026Zapier · toolsManaging a workforce effectively is a key ingredient to the growth of a business big or small and to do this, many businesses turn to employee management software. Employee management software is a fuzzy-ish category. At its core, it's about streamlining HR work (from both the employer and employee side of things), but depending on who you ask, you'll get a slightly different definition. I decided
- From a garage and a pickup truck to $3.8 millionZapier · toolsA missed call in home services is a missed job. In a Massachusetts October, that can be a five-figure heating replacement going to the next company on Google. Ross Hunt started 3R Plumbing & Mechanical in 2022 out of his garage with one pickup truck. In its early days, the veteran-owned residential HVAC and plumbing company did about $300,000 a year. This year, it's on track for nearly $3.8 millio
- Claude vs. ChatGPT: Which is best? [2026]Zapier · toolsWhen OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022, tech writers (myself included) became obsessed with testing its limits. Could it write poetry? Debug code? Explain quantum physics to a five-year-old? Once Anthropic's Claude entered the scene a few months later, the focus shifted to head-to-head task comparisons (like counting objects or navigating ethical dilemmas) to try to figure out which model was m
- Which AI models can you automate on Zapier? (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Moonshot AI, Z.ai, and more)Zapier · toolsStaying up to date on the latest AI models is like trying to keep my house vacuumed in the height of my dog's shedding season (a losing battle). New AI models drop practically every week, and it's not exactly obvious which ones deserve a spot in your workflows. This guide is your cheat sheet, with every model you can automate on Zapier right now, sorted by provider. If you just want to cut to the
- The best AI chatbots in 2026Zapier · toolsYou've probably already subscribed to ChatGPT. Maybe your company rolled out Copilot. Your developer friends won't shut up about Claude. All the noise is confusing: which one should you actually use for your work? The answer depends on the actual task. The AI that's perfect for writing may fall flat when fact-checking; the best for coding may be too steerable, requiring you to invest too much time
- Human-in-the-loop in AI workflows: HITL meaning, benefits, and practical patternsZapier · toolsAI systems can route messages, update records, make decisions, and trigger entire workflows across multiple apps without you touching anything. But as AI shifts more and more from being an assistive tool to powering agentic systems, humans have a new kind of responsibility: making sure nothing goes wrong. Because even the smartest AI systems still struggle to understand nuance, edge cases, or the
- Dropbox Sign vs. Docusign: Which should you use? [2026]Zapier · toolsSometimes it feels like every time I blink, technology transports me into the future at blistering speeds, and it's all I can do to keep up. Then someone asks me to sign something on paper and I remember: we're not quite living in Star Trek yet. I once signed a lease in front of a notary (in triplicate, of course, initialing every page); DHL-ed it to my co-signer in another city to be signed and n
- How to use PowerPoint: A beginner's guideZapier · toolsMy toxic trait is forcing my friends and family into having PowerPoint parties which are really just an excuse for me to do a full-blown slideshow on why Samwise Gamgee is the best character in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. If you haven't been roped into a PowerPoint party yet, trust me, it's around the corner. I can't come up with a topic for you, but I can definitely help you with the whole cre
- What are ChatGPT dots?Zapier · toolsChatGPT dots don't come as a surprise. Always-on agents have been the next frontier AI since OpenClaw caused a run on Mac minis back in January 2026. OpenAI even hired OpenClaw's developer, Peter Steinberger. And OpenAI isn't alone in this: Meta has Muse, Gemini has Spark, and Anthropic is presumably developing something else pretty similar. I have a ChatGPT Pro account, so I was able to dive righ
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