5 Best AI Tools to Make Starting Any Business 5x Faster (2026)
Tools such as Fathom, Claude CoWork, and Lovable can shave hours off your work. Sach toh ye hai, starting a new venture from scratch is exhausting. Sunny Israni knows how much grunt work goes into starting a business. The chief technology officer of agentic AI company Lightswitch and a four-time startup founder, Israni recalls the time-suck of doing basic tasks in the early days.
Founders often find themselves drowning in busywork, such as turning pitch calls into proposals, converting proposals into decks, and assembling product photos. For startup founders launching new businesses today, however, a lot of operational tasks can be outsourced to AI tools.
LinkedIn research from 2025 estimates that 85 percent of small businesses are already using AI tools to enter data, write reports, and generate content, among other tasks. The adoption rate is massive, but it comes with a catch.
Yahan log galti karte hain: they assume AI can run the entire business on autopilot. But even the best tools, Israni warns, can’t replace you.
“You cannot outsource your understanding to an AI agent,” he says. “You have to go in here with the spirit of collaboration with AI. That is how you really get far.”
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The Core Strategy for Choosing AI Tools
Israni’s first tip for entrepreneurs choosing their own AI tools is using a simple spreadsheet or list to keep track of which ones they’re currently using and how.
With new startup software and platforms being released nearly every day, revisiting that list will ensure every tool actually earns its place in your tech stack.
“The real promise of AI is amplification—being able to have a much bigger footprint than was originally possible,” Israni says. Here are five AI tools he recommends to supercharge your business growth.
1. Fathom: Your Ultimate Meeting Assistant
Any entrepreneur will take a lot of meetings in the early days. Tracking client requirements, investor feedback, and team ideas can get overwhelming fast.
Because of this, a meeting recorder like Fathom is critical to help you keep track, Israni says. It quietly records, transcribes, and highlights key moments without interrupting the flow of the conversation.
While he prefers Fathom for its simple integrations with other software, he also recommends Granola or even Google’s free Gemini notetaker as great alternatives for business productivity.
At Lightswitch, Israni’s team has integrated Fathom and Slack to have notes from any meeting sent to them afterward automatically.
Using a meeting recorder helps Israni keep his records straight, but also allows him to be “more present in more meetings and to be able to really connect with people,” he says.
2. Claude CoWork: Your Highly Skilled AI Analyst
When you need heavy research or data organization done right, Claude steps up. Claude’s research assistant can do anything from opening up your browser and Googling on your behalf to filling out a spreadsheet.
“Claude Cowork is like having an analyst right next to you who’s extremely skilled,” Israni says, “but you have to know how to guide it.”
By that, he means getting clear on your goals for the tool before you start using it. Ask yourself: What are the bigger-picture goals for your business? What are the tasks at hand, and how do they feed into those goals?
Without being clear on what you want to get from the tool, Israni says, you’ll get generic outputs that aren’t as useful for your business strategy.
Dhyan rakhein, data organization is key here. “If you’ve ever been a solo entrepreneur or even a small team, you know that the share drive can get so crazy and wild,” Israni says.
“This problem does not go away—it’s even more important to be super organized about where all the information is, to provide context for an AI agent to then do its work.”
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3. Lovable: Spin Up Landing Pages Instantly
Testing an idea requires a web presence, and coding from scratch takes too long. Israni uses Lovable to quickly build simple websites without writing a single line of code.
“Any non-technical person can just go in and spin up a beautiful landing page,” he says.
Instead of putting agendas for the AI workshops he offers as an adjunct professor at Columbia University into “boring Google docs,” he uses Lovable to create temporary, high-converting landing pages in minutes.
Claude Code and Cursor are more powerful, he explains, for those who want deep technical control.
But he still recommends a simple, cloud-based option such as Lovable, Bolt, or Replit for anyone who needs a high-quality website up quickly to validate a business idea.
4. Gamma: Generate Pitch Decks in Minutes
For entrepreneurs who spend a lot of time making decks and presentations, Gamma can save hours of formatting and design work.
Israni gives a highly practical example of a freelance designer who needs to create a pitch deck after an introductory call. Here is how the seamless workflow automation looks:
The call is recorded in the designer’s meeting recorder (like Fathom).
They send the transcript to Claude Cowork to structure the proposal.
Copying and pasting Claude’s output into Gamma then builds a visually stunning pitch deck for them.
“That whole process takes less than five minutes,” Israni says. This allows founders to focus on selling rather than tweaking slide designs.
5. n8n: Master Workflow Automation
For more advanced users who are familiar with other AI tools, Israni recommends n8n to automate entire workflows and connect different apps together.
For instance, users can build a workflow in n8n to search the internet for a niche topic automatically, Israni says.
The user simply tells n8n to find all the latest content that has been released in the past two days, summarize it, digest it, and send an email with that digest right to their inbox.
Or, you could automate the workflow described above, asking n8n to take the steps from the introductory call to the pitch deck on its own without manual copy-pasting.
Israni says the benefits of these tools are especially advantageous to solo entrepreneurs and small businesses, which stand to gain a lot from these types of automations.
“It really levels the playing field in a lot of ways,” he continues, “because now you have a small business that can operate like a much larger one.”
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