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Top 10 AI Tools for Boosting SaaS Company Productivity

Discover the ultimate AI tools for boosting SaaS performance for your company. Streamline operations and enhance user experiences with these top picks.

Top 10 AI Tools for Boosting SaaS Company Productivity
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In the competitive world of software as a service (SaaS) businesses, companies need every advantage to get an edge over their competitors. That leads many of those companies to look for the best tools available to increase their productivity and efficiency.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are making significant improvement a possibility. AI offers innovative solutions for multiple business functions—it can help you care for customers, analyze data for insights, and automate repetitive tasks.

This guide will explore how AI can help SaaS companies work smarter. You’ll learn more about what SaaS is and how AI plays a role in improving productivity, as well as be introduced to 10 AI tools that can help SaaS businesses be more efficient and profitable.

Understanding SaaS and AI

SaaS is cloud-based software—meaning it exists on the internet instead of desktop computers. Rather than purchasing software and downloading it to a desktop or business server to install it, companies purchase a subscription and get login credentials to access their purchase through a web app on the internet.

AI is a tool that can enhance these services. AI software is trained using large datasets to learn the patterns in data, which can help humans make decisions. That training allows AI to generate new content, make predictions based on its training data, and learn to automate repetitive tasks.

Integrating AI algorithms into SaaS products helps business owners leverage data-driven insights to improve productivity and streamline operations—so they can provide more value to their users.

The best AI tools for SaaS companies

Many AI systems are available for businesses to use, so what are the best ones for SaaS companies? Below are 10 of the best AI-powered tools to try.

The best AI tools for SaaS companies:

  1. ChatGPT
  2. Tableau
  3. Storydoc
  4. Akkio
  5. AIExcelBot
  6. Functionize
  7. Group Think
  8. Forecast
  9. Perfecto Scriptless
  10. ClickUp

1. ChatGPT

ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a conversational AI chatbot from Open AI that uses generative AI to produce output. It’s based on a large language model (LLM) GPT-3.5 by default—and if you upgrade to the paid version, it uses GPT-4.

This software is helpful for SaaS companies because it allows them to automate some parts of content creation. They can create content for marketing campaigns and ask the chatbot for programming advice.

In advanced use cases, SaaS businesses can sign up for the ChatGPT application programming interface (API) to integrate it with their website. The most common use case for this is chatbots—where companies supplement the knowledge of the AI with their product and customer data to automate the customer support experience.

This functionality allows users to get help without waiting for a human customer service representative. Since the customer needs to spend less time getting help, it leads to more efficient customer interactions and a better customer experience.

Price: Free for access to ChatGPT powered by GPT-3.5; $20 per month for access to ChatGPT powered by GPT-4 and access to plug-ins.

2. Tableau

Tableau

Tableau is an advanced data analysis solution designed to help with business intelligence. Its primary goal is to read data provided by businesses and interpret it—allowing companies to gather insights that would take too long to discover manually and use them for better decision-making.

One of the best parts of Tableau is how easily it connects to other data sources. Take Dubai Airports, for instance. They store their data in SQL servers, so they needed a way to get it to Tableau. To that end, Dubai Airports prepared their data in the Alteryx software and connected it straight to the Tableau software—allowing them to get updated reports in real time with the click of a button.

Once in Tableau, you can view data visualizations that help you understand your data.

Price: Starts at $15 per month per user (billed annually).

3. Storydoc

Storydoc

Storydoc is an AI tool provider that helps companies turn their slide presentations into interactive presentations that help them tell their company stories. This application has five steps:

  1. Tell the AI what you need.
  2. Provide your website to help the AI create a design.
  3. Use the writing assistant to generate text and brainstorm ideas.
  4. Use the content generator to create AI images inside the app.
  5. Collect data insights about how presentation viewers interact with your presentation.

These capabilities allow SaaS business owners to create compelling presentations for many purposes. They can create pitches to help potential customers understand their products and tailor them to the needs of specific audiences or create pitch decks for investors interested in investing in the business.

Many companies have used Storydoc in production with great results. For example, WiseStamp used Storydoc to create personalized pitches for prospects—leading to a 10% CTA conversion rate.

Price: Starting at $40 per month per user ($30 per month when billed annually).

4. Akkio

Akkio

Akkio is a predictive analytics tool that helps businesses understand their data and forecast future events using machine learning algorithms. Akkio works by reading your historical data to look for patterns. Once Akkio’s AI analyzes a company’s data and learns its history, it can predict trends and potential outcomes—helping companies make more informed decisions and stay ahead of the curve.

There are several use cases:

  • Sales forecasting
  • Employee attrition
  • Sales scoring
  • Churn analysis
  • Text classification

Akkio also offers interactive graphs and other AI data analysis options to examine. Its AI capabilities include a chatbot for companies to chat with their data. They can use this chatbot to ask complex questions about the results of the analysis instead of spending time trying to figure things out for themselves.

The Akkio platform has several integration options, including Salesforce, Hubspot, Zapier, and Google Sheets. These integrations allow SaaS companies to connect to their data from several sources instead of manually importing information into the app.

Ellipsis is one of the companies taking advantage of these capabilities. They used the predictive analytics offered by Akkio to take the guesswork out of SEO services and make decisions based on data.

Price: Starts at $49 per month.

5. AI Excel Bot

AI Excel Bot

AI Excel Bot is an AI platform for companies that use Excel to manage data and need to do more with their data. It’s a generative AI tool that connects to Excel and helps SaaS owners generate formulas using plain text. It’s a simple Chrome extension—so it’s easy to integrate into your current workflow.

It uses natural language processing (NLP) to do this. Instead of scouring the internet to learn how to find the right Excel formulas, tell the AI Excel Bot how you want to manipulate your data, and it will provide a formula that gets the job done.

The bot is also useful if you’re looking at complex formulas and don’t understand what you see. Paste the formula into the tool and see a straightforward explanation of how the formula works.

Price: Free version with five tasks per month; paid version for $2.99 per month ($2.08 per month when billed annually).

6. Functionize

Functionize

Functionize is a tool SaaS developers can use to automate and optimize the testing process. No software is perfect on release—there will be bugs that need to be corrected as users discover them.

You can reduce the amount of bugs available by including tests in your programming code to verify code quality on release.

However, adding this kind of testing to the development process takes time. Functionize speeds this process up by adding AI-powered testing to the workflow.

Functionize gets training data from seven years of testing data from deployed applications. It uses that data with data points from your software to create automated tests. It can test programming code, Excel files, databases, and more.

Many large companies are now using Functionize to help manage their testing process. Farmers Insurance is one of those companies. They can now commit to weekly release cycles instead of monthly because of the help Functionize offers.

Price: No public pricing; start a free trial or contact for a quote.

7. GroupThink

GroupThink

GroupThink is a productivity tool that helps businesses that hold meetings. The meeting tool helps businesses plan and recap meetings in three steps:

  1. Set the agenda items in GroupThink.
  2. Host the meeting on your chosen platform (Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams).
  3. Get automated recaps of your meetings.

This step-by-step process helps meeting hosts streamline meeting setup by giving them a process to follow. They can set their agenda beforehand to ensure all meeting attendees know what to expect.

After the meeting, nobody needs to worry about missing anything. GroupThink automatically summarizes meetings using AI—so people can focus on paying attention instead of trying to take notes. People who couldn’t attend the meeting can also view the recap to avoid missing vital information.

Price: Free while still in development.

8. Forecast

Forecast

Forecast is a resource planning and scheduling tool that helps SaaS companies make the most of their resources. Its forecasting capabilities help SaaS companies manage their workforce and individual projects—giving them a bird's-eye view of performance across several areas to ensure things run smoothly.

The Forecast AI works because it learns from your best projects by taking what worked for you in the past and using AI to analyze the choices you plan to make on future projects. It can use that information to predict potential issues, costs, timeframes, and other factors that affect a project’s success.

A feature that makes Forecast stand out is its ability to provide transparency into the finances of a project. It not only helps you keep projects on track but also analyzes the financial viability of a project to help businesses maintain a steady cash flow at lower risk.

Nexus Innovations is a company that made the most of Forecast—using it to switch from a waterfall software development model to the agile methodology. Forecast allowed them to bring visibility to the project management process and maximize resource usage.

Price: No public pricing; contact for a quote.

9. Perfecto Scriptless

Perfecto Scriptless

Perfecto Scriptless is an automation platform that allows SaaS companies to automate the testing process on native mobile platforms. Since testing is time-consuming, software developers can spend countless hours setting up tests and ensuring they’re correct. Much of that time spent goes away when conducting automated testing using AI.

Perfecto Scriptless offers a codeless setup—meaning developers don’t need to write code to create reliable test cases. They can use a drag-and-drop environment to set up tests or rely on the automated process.

On top of that, this AI app offers tests for several advanced use cases, including biometric authentication, two-factor authentication, accessibility, and user experience measurements.

Gliffy is a SaaS application that uses Perfecto Scriptless to streamline the testing process. They were able to use the app to handle all their testing and quickly troubleshoot issues for their clients.

Price: Starts at $99 per month ($83 per month when billed annually).

10. ClickUp

ClickUp

ClickUp is a project management tool that helps managers handle task management for SaaS companies. It started as a traditional project management app that allows managers to set up projects, assign tasks to team members, and communicate with teams.

But they have also introduced new AI features that make it more valuable. ClickUp’s AI abilities add generative AI to the workspace. Users can generate agenda items for projects, summarize content, pre-format content, create tasks, and much more.

These capabilities help managers and team members get more done by skipping the hard work of coming up with what to write. They can use ClickUp’s AI for a first draft and edit it to meet their standards.

Shopmonkey offers a SaaS solution that helps auto repair shops manage their businesses. They use ClickUp to manage their marketing process, gain visibility into tasks, and document processes.

Price: Free for personal use; starts at $10 per month per user for teams ($7 per month when paid annually).

Boost your company productivity with Upwork

AI technology is playing an increasing role in improving the performance of SaaS companies. New tools can help businesses manage projects, enhance forecasting abilities, improve meetings, create content, and much more.

Don’t hesitate to explore the AI solutions above and others to see if they can offer anything to your business. Look for free trials to see if any of your options will integrate well into your business and help your company thrive.

Is your business looking for help to move your projects along? Browse Upwork’s Talent MarketplaceTM to find SaaS professionals with the skills you need.

Disclosure: Upwork is an OpenAI partner, giving OpenAI customers and other businesses direct access to trusted expert independent professionals experienced in working with OpenAI technologies.

Upwork does not control, operate, or sponsor the other tools or services discussed in this article, which are only provided as potential options. Each reader and company should take the time to adequately analyze and determine the tools or services that would best fit their specific needs and situation.

Prices are current at the time of writing and may change over time based on each service’s offerings.

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