Helpful ways to use AI to enhance your search process.

February 03, 2025

by a searcher from Indiana University at Bloomington in St. Louis, MO, USA

Looking to get feedback on how anyone's used LLMs or other AI tools to enhance/increase the speed of your search process.

- What platform are you using
- What 'purpose' are you using it for and what are helpful example prompts you've used
- Any feedback on realiability of X platform for Y function

I certainly understand the basics of ChatGPT and Claude, but curious to get any feedback where these (or other) platforms have been especially useful and reliable, and any creative ways to use them.

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Reply by a searcher
from New York University in San Diego, CA, USA

Not exactly what you asked, but here’s how I’m doing it: 1. Start with Clay.com => you can source and aggregate leads, filter, enrich with 100+ external connections, and export to a CRM or as a list. Better than Grata while 80% cheaper. 2. Apollo is great for sourcing and enrichment and integrates natively with Clay. You can also use Aplify to save 90% of the cost instead of paying Apollo. 3. Airtable=> requires set up but is a stellar CRM option. 4. LinkedIn Sales Navigator => expensive but great for social outreach. 5. Instantly.io => By far the best fit cold email campaigns 6. Make.com or n8n to automate 90% of the process. You can, and should, connect ChatGPT API for AI enhancements. This may sounds really technical but it’s all no-code and just takes a little time to get up to speed. Massive leverage once it’s all humming though.

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in Chișinău, Moldova

The most basic you can do for example is to scrape company data from google maps, then the reviews with the website data to get info about the business, then organise this in a spreadsheet. Then based on the data you collected you can do a deep dive research of that specific industry on Perplexity and also compare it with the data you have on companies to be able to better craft personalised messages for your outreach. Then you can launch a marketing campaign targeting those businesses. This is one simple example but a lot of creative ways to approach this and a lot of useful automated workflows that can be created around this process.

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