Top 5 AI Tools to Make Money & Scale Your Business in 2026 (STOP Leaking Revenue!)

Coming in at number one. Close Bot. Every business has problems. Start with a bottleneck from sales. When it comes down to your inquiries being handled, even if you do not know it, you are leaking masses of revenue. If you're a big company, you're leaking potentially millions in revenue. The historical way of handling sales. An inquiry comes in, you try to get to that inquiry as fast as you can. Your sales team are on calls. They try to call them, they don't answer. They send an email. They try them again this afternoon or tomorrow, whatever what you want. What any business would want would be an always on sales team. If you could have your sales team work every minute of every day, you would choose to have that well. Introducing closedbot.com because closed bot is effectively your AI powered appointment setting tool. It has two way SMS conversations, WhatsApp conversations, social conversations and email conversations. With your inquiries based off of however you build out your individual flows, not only does it do that, it will do it to an action that you set. So if you want it to book appointments for the following day or same day, if you want it to extract photo uploads or license uploads or mortgage in principle agreements uploads, it can do all of that. All of those things can be done inside of Closed Bot. And what this does is it not only increases your efficiency in terms of response rate and conversion rates, it also helps you weed through the poor quality inquiries. Saving your sales team's time so that they can focus on the 80 20. They can focus on 80% of their energy on the 20% that matter and that's closing the high quality leads. Closed Bot is amazing. It can have brand aligned custom Personas so it stays bang on brand. You can manipulate it to be able to turn tell exactly be able to say exactly what you would want it to say in that situation. It's on, it's always on. 24, 7 I run this for some of my companies. We are static buyers. Has between 2 and 600 leads a month and it's handled by one salesperson. I bet your business has more salespeople than that lead to salesperson ratio. And the reason for that is because you don't have something like Closed Bot in place. So that's it. It's no code, no fluff, real time performance analysis and data. It is one of the most powerful AI tools on the planet and you definitely should be using Closed Bot. Coming in at number two. Perplexity AI's Comet. Perplexity AI's Comet is basically going to be the death of the term Google It. Right, Google it. Everything's been Google it. Well, when you Google it effectively, Google just gives you homework. I know they're trying with their AI mode, but with the Comet search browser, it's revolutionized the way that we search online. I've personally been using this now for the last three or four weeks and it's agentic performance and the way that it's context aware of what you actually want is scary. It can book flights, it can submit forms on websites without you even visiting them, it can book train fares, it can do anything that you want simply by you giving it tasks inside of Comet. You can create spaces, you can add individual members to that specific area. You could add your profit and loss as a business so that you as an owner can only access that space. But you can query your profit and loss, gauge performance, have it connected to a multitude of individual tools that allow you to be able to stay on top of your day to day. It has completely changed the way that I work on a day to day basis because being able to have all of these individual things, sending calendar meetings, invites, these things that you've missed that you would normally have had to use ClickUp or a manual tool to have, you literally just brain dump it into Comet and it takes care of your schedule for you. Those are the basics. I strongly suggest that you try Comet out because when you get under the skin, all of the discovery information that you can find, all of the individual opportunities that presents itself when it comes to search are key. And one thing you shouldn't rule out is that Comet's search engines results page if you like, in comparison to Google's wins hands down in the description. I'm going to put a video to this because I've created one. I'll put a video to it below because I compared the two and the results are frightening. Move to Comet. Trust me. Coming in at number three is AmpleLeads IO but I have to give a shout out to Apollo I.O. because that's the original source of the leads. If money isn't a problem, use Apollo. A lot of people, businesses want to be cost efficient and any business would. And what do they want? Well, they want leads, don't they? Like you want leads in order to be able to grow your business. Well, how do you find them? Well, you use a tool like Ample Leads IO to be able to go and scrape Apollo at a fraction of the price of what Apollo would cost. That gives you email addresses that are then able to be used in whatever marketing format that you want could be lookalike audiences on Facebook. It could be that you want a cold outreach to them. Whatever it is, AmpleLeads IO still has the Apollo scraping feature. You can still scrape Apollo, but the point is, between Apollo I.O. and Ampleleads I.O. you have the ability to go out there and choose the exact criteria of your target demographic in your customer and scrape unlimited amount of leads. However many of those exist is the amount that you can scrape if you're willing to pay for it. So ampleeads IO is the one that I use personally, but I do have an Apollo subscription as well. And you know what? What business on the planet wants less leads? Tell me there isn't one. Coming in at number four, Instantly AI. Instantly AI is a cold email outreach system. So we've just covered ample leads in Apollo that g that gains you the leads. Well then what do you want to do? Well, every business wants to reach as many customers as physically possible. How do you do that? Well, you use Instantly AI and what you do is you can either create your own inboxes, use something like inboxology to purchase hundreds of inboxes at once. I personally send 5,000 emails a day. Or you can buy them directly from Instantly AI. What I'm trying to say to you here is there is no excuse for you not to be able to send these emails to this individual business, to this list that you've just, just gathered. And you can tailor your copy. You can a b test your offering. You can send emails at scale in sequences, upload the leads, assign the inboxes, slash email addresses that you want to use to them, set it at a reasonable number at like 30, 30 emails per day per inbox and watch your inquiry volume skyrocket, especially if you lead with a good offer. Instantly AI is massively underrated. There are other tools out there that you that you can do this in. Instantly AI is my favorite. It's seamless. The UX is fantastic. It has an app for your phone so you can use like the Unibox on your phone to reach out to individual inquiries. And it gives you the possibility to be able to reach millions of people that you never had the the ability to do before. So instantly AI comes in at number four. So coming in at number five, which is the go, which is NAN N8N is the biggest player in the no code space and it allows you to glue all of the tools that I've just mentioned and more together to automate your systems. What are your biggest problems as a business? The biggest problems that you have as a business are the same that they were 50 years ago. Manual data entry, sales efficiency in terms of handling client churn, the winning of new business, cold outreach, where you're going to source them from marketing channels and advertisements. All of these things, they still exist. And NAN can fix every single one of them. If someone like myself is the one who implements the strategy for you, because it can pull from just about anywhere on the planet that has an API and you can manipulate that data. So if you're not too technical watching this video, like if you're a business owner and it's something that is a new concept to you, it effectively is a bunch of individual nodes that you can drag in instantly, you can put instantly inside of there. You can make API calls, which is basically like a waiter. You give it some information, you ask it to bring you back some more information from somewhere else. But the point is, and the key underlying reason why NAN is the go, is because it allows you to automate anything. You can automate anything in your business. If you were to speak to me for half an hour and tell me your business bottlenecks, they would be resolvable inside of NAN, plus some other tools, other LLMs, Gemini, whatever it is that you want to use, plus maybe some of the AI tools that I've mentioned today. But the fact is, is that if your business is not using no code in particular, nan, then you are miles behind in the race and you are lacking in areas where in 2025, 2026 is only acceptable. Listen, I get it. You're overwhelmed. There's a million new AI tools every day. Well, I've curated a list of the five AI tools that you should focus on if you're going to get rich and make some money and scale your business. There's all the noise is exactly that. It's just noise. The tools that I'm going to give you in this list today strictly focus on business impact, whether it be sales, productivity, whatever it is. These five are mainstayers. They are applicable to almost every business on the planet. And I use every single one of them every day. Let's jump in. So those are my five go to AI tools. They solve real business problems and that's why I'm pushing you in that direction. The point is to start with those five and then expand later. If you want me to expand, drop a comment below and I'll give you some more explanations and examples of tools. Go. High Level is technically not AI, but has massive incorporation of AI. There are many many, many AI tools that I use on a day to day basis. But I've just saved you the job of finding out which five are the best for solving specific problems in the fastest possible route. My name is Michael Elliot. Like, subscribe and I'll catch you in the next one.