Four AI Tools for Work: From Meeting Recordings to Startups and Marketing
We picked tools that turn speech into text, rent out a team-only AI environment, and help with business plans and promotion. Here is what each one costs, what you get for free, and what to check before handing over work documents.
We picked four tools, ranging from one that turns meeting recordings into text to ones that help with business planning and marketing execution. We also included an AI runtime environment that teams can rent for their own use. For each tool, we looked at what it does, how much it costs, and whether it is safe to hand over work documents.
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe tells speakers apart
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, released by Google, is a model that turns speech into text. It handles both live audio and recorded files. It strips out filler and cleans the result up into proper sentences. With recorded files, it identifies who said what and timestamps individual words. It is useful for tracking down a specific remark in an interview, or for pulling out quotes before writing up meeting minutes.
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You can use it through Google AI Studio on the web, or through the Gemini API, which developers plug into their own services. It has also been rolled out to the Gemini app for Mac and to Gboard Rambler on Android. Feeding in Korean speech and getting Korean text back is supported on Android Rambler. The Gemini app for Mac works in English, and the Chrome feature has not shipped yet.
The Gemini API has a free tier with usage caps. The paid option is pay as you go rather than a monthly subscription. Standard pricing for regular Transcribe is $2 per million input audio tokens and $12 per million output text tokens. That pricing applies to regular Transcribe and does not carry over as is to Transcribe Live, the real-time version. This is the cost developers incur when they plug in the API.
Google AI Studio and the Gemini app require signing in with a Google account. Content and responses submitted to the free AI Studio and API may be used to improve the product or reviewed by humans. Google itself advises against entering sensitive or confidential personal information. The company says content and responses submitted to the paid API are not used for product improvement. Speaker attribution in recorded audio supports up to three speakers; support for more speakers is still experimental.
Solheim: a team-only AI environment from 15 euros a month
Solheim rents out AI runtime environments that operate inside the European Union. You sign up on the web, receive a connection key, and hook it up to any program that follows the OpenAI format. You can set how many requests are handled at once and how much text is read at once. You can also manage a separate connection key and track usage for each project.
It is worth considering if you want to plug AI into the development tools your team uses, or if you want usage broken out by project. Signing up can be done directly on the web, but getting actual work done requires connecting it to a program. Registration works by setting a password through a link sent to your email.
Renting a single runtime environment starts at 15 euros a month. Listed prices exclude tax. If you only use it for coding work, there is a separate coding plan worth a look. Plans with dedicated GPUs require a custom quote.
The company states that prompts, the instructions given to the AI, are not used for model training. Requests are processed inside the EU. If you plan to handle internal company documents, you should review both this data handling policy and the processing region.
Foundera checks your startup idea
Foundera is a web service that helps early-stage founders vet their ideas and prepare both their product and their fundraising. It offers step-by-step startup education and idea validation. It also includes AI-driven market research and business planning features. It connects founders with investors and mentors suited to their stage.
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It is useful for mapping out the order in which to test a business idea, or for doing the market research a business plan requires. You can view a read-only demo without signing up, so you can check the layout first. Actually using it requires creating an account, and the official description also mentions a feature for chatting with mentors over Telegram.
Features that do not use AI are free. The Free plan grants 20 credits a month as an AI usage allowance. On the paid side, Starter is $12 a month for 300 credits and Builder is $29 for 800. Pro is $69 for 2,000 and Scale is $149 for 4,500, all before tax.
Content you enter may be processed by contracted third-party AI vendors in order to run the features. The company says it does not use non-public startup data to train public AI models or third-party vendors’ models. Users choose how much of their profile and startup information to make public. Even after you delete your account, records that must be retained by law may remain.
Naise AI, from creating posts to publishing them
Naise AI is a web tool for planning and running marketing campaigns. It writes social posts, schedules and publishes them, and analyzes performance. Image creation aligned with brand guidelines, influencer discovery and outreach, and press release distribution are also part of the feature set. It is useful for preparing posts for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn, or for producing brand imagery and marketing copy together.
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Free access covers a diagnostic of your social accounts and your brand, plus a three-day trial. Viewing the diagnostic results requires signing up with a verified email address. The three-day trial requires a credit card, and you are charged automatically unless you cancel before it ends. Monthly pricing is $59.90 for Entry, $119 for Middle, and $199 for Advanced. Enterprise is quoted separately.
The company collects account information, materials uploaded to campaigns, usage records, and device information. It also discloses that it analyzes data to improve the service and shares information with some third-party vendors. Account information is retained for as long as the account is active, plus seven years for financial record-keeping. Deleting it earlier may be restricted where there is a legal obligation.
These four tools target different jobs: cleaning up recordings, providing an AI runtime environment, preparing to launch a startup, and executing marketing. When choosing, it is best to first match the work you need done against the pricing structure. And if you are entrusting a tool with work documents, storage and training policies are not the only things to look at. You should also check whether third-party vendors handle the processing on their behalf, and whether you can delete your data when you want to.