Method
Personal AI assistants
We give every assistant the same everyday jobs a person hands over, then check each answer against a key written before the test.
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AI tools for work tasks
Tools a small team can buy, tested on one job at a time: AI visibility audit, marketing copy, cold sales emails, growth data analysis. The method is below.
How a review is made
Each review gives one task to several products a small team can buy, with frontier models alongside them, and reports what the recorded outputs did.
When a major new model ships, we run every product again from step 2 and date the change.
Every review states its sample, how outputs were judged and against which rules, and what it did not measure.
Every attempt is sorted into one state: tested with output, tested with no output, unreachable, or not tested. If a product was set up and given the task but produced no deliverable within the test window, that counts as a failure on that task and is scored 0, with its state shown (for example “output incomplete” or “still waiting”). Gaps on our side are never scored as product failures: a task we did not run, a product we could not reach, or records we do not have.
Each review states its sample next to its results: the brands, companies or questions tested and how many runs each product had.
Per-task results are always shown next to any total. A composite appears only with its weights stated (the AI-visibility review weights questions 30%, diagnosis 30% and actions 40%), and every place is numbered; neighbours that a small scoring change would reorder are marked “could swap”. The marketing-copy review reports four questions separately, with no total.
Each review says how its outputs were judged, against which records and rules, and when a rule was added after testing.
We keep every review up to date. When a major new model is released, we re-run the tests and update the results; new evidence and corrections are added as they arrive. Each review lists every change with its date in its Updates section.
Business outcomes (visibility, replies, conversions, sales), cost and staff time were not measured in these reviews. Each article says so next to its results.
analyst.ai has no commercial relationship with any product it reviews: no sponsorship, paid placement, affiliate links, or vendor-provided accounts or credits. Each review states this for its vendors.
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