Best AI for business tasks
What 98 creators said they actually use for business tasks, from podcasts and YouTube. Not benchmark scores. Updated Oct 18, 2026.
Short answer
For business tasks, most creators use Claude (64), then ChatGPT (20). The model they name most is GPT (7).
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Creators who use or recommend each"You can take this stuff and put it into Claude, and then take how can I apply this to my life, or ChatGPT it, or to my investment thinking, or to my company."
"You are probably going to want to subscribe to either Google's Gemini product, Anthropic's Claude product, or OpenAI's ChatGPT product for 20 bucks a month. And you're going to want to, when you do serious work, pick their advanced think..."
"Those are the kind of questions that I totally could ask my Codex, or, you know, I have my Dot in Slack so I could ask my Dot."
"All of my company's knowledge sits in one folder on GitHub so I can plug that into Claude Code or Codex and swap in any kind of coding agent that I want."
"My 40 Grok bots that are load-bearing across different parts of my business."
"Gemini, honestly, I've been using Gemini more and more just because it's such plug-and-play with G Suite."
"I love Perplexity from a research perspective to say I need deep numbers on this opportunity — what are the issues that they're facing, where from a financial perspective could I support them, what kind of financial resources do they need."
"I would love people to try Cursor. I think there are incredibly exciting things that we're coming out with and we're really proud of it. Every recruiter should be a talent engineer — the things that recruiters now have at their fingertip..."
Models creators name for business tasks
Most creators name the app (like Claude Code), not the model, so these counts are smaller.
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How this works: we read every podcast and YouTube transcript we track and note when a creator says they use or recommend an AI tool for a job. Each creator counts once per tool. Sponsored mentions are left out. More about Followed.