I Tested 500+ AI Tools, These Will Make You Rich

About this video

Dan Martell says he has personally tested over 500 AI tools and ranks tools that can make money by what you put in — money, time and energy — versus what you get back. His top tier is led by Apex, his own Martell Ventures platform built on OpenClaw, which he discloses as his company, followed by Claude, which he says he used to build a venture studio, 15-plus companies and 27 personal tools, and Gemini at the end of that tier for its integration across Google tools and YouTube. ChatGPT is placed in C tier; he calls it first to market but argues it is falling behind. A-tier picks include NotebookLM for accelerated learning, WhisperFlow for voice input that he says gives two to three times more output, OpenClaw with caveats about technical skill and security, Higgsfield for generative video, Frank (hellofrank.ai, a portfolio company he discloses) as an AI financial co-pilot, Grok for research, Perplexity’s Computer, Granola for meeting capture, Revio for sell-by-chat, and Atlas, another portfolio company, for voice reception and qualifying for local businesses. Lower placements include Antigravity, Suno and Lovable in B tier, Gamma and Nano Banana for visuals and slides, N8N as powerful but overkill for most businesses, Notion as long-term AI memory, and Apple Intelligence in F tier. Gumloop and Revio also reach his top tier for automation and DM selling. He closes by urging viewers to be a director — a ‘human on the loop’ — and make tools complete the last step instead of copy-pasting between apps.

Key takeaways

• Rank AI tools by return on money, time and energy invested, not by hype or feature lists
• Martell puts Claude and his own Apex platform at the top for building and agent leverage, with Gemini valued for Google/YouTube integration
• Use specialist leverage tools: NotebookLM for learning, WhisperFlow for voice, Granola for capturing meetings, and Frank for financial answers
• Match automation to skill level: Gumloop for most businesses, N8N mainly for technical users who need full back-end control
• Be the director, not the doer: stay in one tool and have the AI complete the final step instead of copy-pasting

Episode details: published May 7, 2026 · 22:46 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dan Martell’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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