Which AI should you actually use?

    for the things you do most.

    Which AI should you use?

    Every AI has a personality, strengths it falls into naturally and habits you have to work around, much like colleagues. Match the task in front of you, an email, a report, a spreadsheet that won't behave, to the tool with a natural affinity for it. Not so you switch every hour, but so you know what yours is good at, where it needs a steer, and when a different one genuinely earns its place.

    Clair helps non-technical professionals know when to trust their AI, when to check it, and when to skip it.

    what are you actually doing?

    ChatGPT

    the catch

    the first draft reads like everyone else's first draft.

    the move

    let it break the blank page, then rewrite it in your own words.

    no ChatGPT?

    Claude does this too, just less generic and a touch slower.

    the five, and where each one bites

    ChatGPT the people pleaser

    your best blank page. ideas, quick drafts, and talking something out loud.

    but it agrees with you far too easily, and it sounds just as sure when it's wrong.

    Claude the snob

    the best writer of the lot, and it turns a mess into something ordered.

    but ask for a line and it hands you an essay, and the free version runs out fast.

    Perplexity the know-it-all

    anything that has to be true, with the sources attached.

    but ask it to actually write and you get a memo in a suit.

    Gemini the overachiever

    it can actually read your own Gmail, Drive and calendar.

    but you have to switch it on, and the part that reads your inbox has been slower to reach the UK and Europe.

    Copilot the nepo baby

    already sitting in your Word, Teams and inbox. convenient.

    but rarely the best at anything, and shaky on the facts.

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    Want the full breakdown?

    every tool, every task, the settings most people never touch, and the rules for when to trust the answer. then one judgment call, in your inbox every other Sunday.

    you use AI mostly for...

    the full thing, then a note every other Sunday, unsubscribe whenever.

    the kit is the deeper version. set up, habits, judgment.