Which AI tools are actually worth your time?
There are thousands of them and most are noise. Book an hour with someone who has already built real systems with these tools, and leave knowing what to use, what to skip, and where to start.
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You keep hearing you should be using AI
You’ve probably tried a couple of tools, gotten a mediocre result, and quietly gone back to doing it the old way. Meanwhile the advice out there is either breathless hype or a nine-hour course.
What’s missing is someone who has used these things for real work and will just tell you, plainly, what fits your situation.
What a session is
The task that eats your week, the process nobody wants to own, the thing you've been meaning to automate for a year.
What AI is genuinely good at here, what it isn't, and which specific tools are worth trying for your situation.
Named tools, in priority order, with a first step you can take that week. Not a strategy deck.
Why me
I’m Ty Marin. Army veteran, former network and business analyst, and I build the systems I talk about. Groovy runs on a stack I designed and wrote — my own site, my own database, my own booking and admin tooling. I moved it off a rented all-in-one platform because I wanted to own it.
That’s the whole credential. Not a certification, not a partnership badge. I’ve done the work, made the expensive mistakes, and I’ll tell you which ones to avoid.
What this isn’t
Worth being straight about, so nobody books the wrong thing:
I advise; you or your team implement. If you want someone to build it, this isn't that service.
Everything I share is based on my own experience with these tools. Your business is different and results vary. Nothing here is legal, financial, tax, or compliance advice.
I take no affiliate money and I'm not reselling anyone's platform. If the honest answer is that AI won't help, that's the answer you'll get.
One conversation about your situation, not a curriculum you have to find time for.
The AI tools worth knowing right now
A short, plain-language guide to the tools I actually use and recommend, updated as things change — and they change constantly. The first edition is being written now; subscribe to the newsletter and you’ll get it the day it’s out.
One hour. Your actual business. Straight answers.
One hour, one-on-one, on your actual business. Advice based on experience — no guarantees.
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