AI tool guide · 8 roles · 28 tools
Which AI tool should my company actually start with?
AI tools aren't one thing, they split into 8 different roles. A "brain" role writes code for you, a "hands" role clicks through screens for you, and each does something completely different. Figure out which role your company needs first, then compare tools inside that role, and you won't get lost.
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8 AI roles to support your work
ChatGPT alone cannot handle every task. Once you divide work by role, it becomes clear which tools you need.
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01Brain6 tools
The AI brain that actually executes the work
The AI in this role does not just answer in a chat window: it runs in a terminal (a screen where you type commands to control the computer directly) and actually creates files and runs code. Once you give it an instruction, it chains several steps together on its own.
Codex
Used at QJC- What it is
- An AI coding agent built by OpenAI. It runs in a terminal (the command-line screen) or its own app, and handles everything from writing code to running it.
- Good fit for
- Suits companies already using OpenAI products, or people who'd rather watch their workflow in an app screen than a terminal.
Claude Code
Used at QJC- What it is
- An AI coding agent from Anthropic, the company behind Claude. It runs in a terminal, and when you give it instructions like a conversation, it carries out code writing, file edits, and command execution in sequence.
- Good fit for
- Fits companies already using Claude at work, or teams looking for an agent that handles multiple steps from a single instruction.
Hermes Agent
Used at QJC- What it is
- An AI agent tool made by Nous Research. It acts as an agent harness (the execution shell that lets AI read and write files and run commands), taking instructions and carrying them out directly.
- Good fit for
- Worth comparing alongside other options like Codex, Claude Code, and OpenClaw for a team introducing an agent harness for the first time.
- What it is
- An agent harness tool (the execution shell that lets AI read and write files and run commands) that takes code or task instructions and carries them out directly.
- Good fit for
- A tool worth comparing side by side with Hermes Agent when choosing an agent harness.
Dots
New- What it is
- Dots is an always-on AI agent that lives inside ChatGPT. Each dot has its own cloud computer and browser, so once you give it a goal it keeps working even between conversations.
- Good fit for
- A good fit for teams on a paid ChatGPT plan that want an AI assistant who keeps going without someone watching. You can talk to the same dot in Slack or Teams, and you decide what it does on its own and what it asks about first.
Meta Muse
New- What it is
- Meta Muse is a personal AI agent from Meta. It runs on its own cloud virtual machine on Meta's servers and uses a browser you can watch to handle web tasks like filling out forms.
- Good fit for
- It suits people who want to hand off everyday chores like scheduling and shopping to an assistant. For now it is available only in the US, so treat it as one to watch if you are elsewhere.
02Workbench3 tools
A workbench for handling several AIs on one screen
This role runs several brain-layer AIs at once and lets you watch and manage what each one is doing from a single screen. It matters most when AI is writing code across several branches of work at the same time.
- What it is
- An agent development environment (ADE, a tool that manages everything from writing code to running it in one screen) for AI coding agents. It lets you watch and manage the work an agent is doing on screen.
- Good fit for
- Suits people who'd rather check an agent's work on screen than type terminal commands, or teams comparing it against other ADEs like Superset and Emdash.
- What it is
- An agent development environment (ADE, a tool that manages everything from writing code to running it in one screen) for AI coding agents. You hand tasks to an agent and manage progress in one screen.
- Good fit for
- Worth comparing alongside Orca and Emdash for a team that wants to manage multiple agent tasks in one place.
- What it is
- An agent development environment (ADE, a tool that manages everything from writing code to running it in one screen) for AI coding agents. It helps you check and manage an agent's work on screen.
- Good fit for
- A tool worth comparing alongside Orca and Superset for a team introducing an ADE (agent development environment) for the first time.
03Control tower3 tools
A control tower for watching AI work from anywhere
This role lets you check what the AI is doing right now, and give it instructions, from your phone or another device instead of your office computer.
- What it is
- Paseo is a tool that gives you unified control over agents running across multiple computers and multiple AI providers, all from one screen. Rather than running agents itself, it works more like a control panel that gathers and displays agent work scattered across many machines.
- Good fit for
- It suits teams running coding agents across multiple servers or computers who want to see and manage them all from a single screen.
- What it is
- A tool that serves the same role as paseo. It lets you check and control a running AI agent session remotely.
- Good fit for
- Like paseo, suits people who don't want to miss agent progress while away. Since both serve the same role, try each and pick whichever screen feels more comfortable.
- What it is
- Jev isn't a text-generating AI like ChatGPT. Feed it a situation and it tells you which way to go and how confident it is, fast.
- Good fit for
- Useful for routing requests, picking which tool an agent should use, or watching for risky actions (a safety check called a guardrail). It doesn't replace a writing AI. It just handles the judgment call alongside one.
04Team ops3 tools
An organizational layer that coordinates several AIs like a team
When more than one AI works at the same time, this role decides who handles what and in what order. It works much like a team lead dividing up work in a human organization.
- What it is
- Gas City is the successor to a system once called "Gas Town," where multiple agents worked together under fixed roles like Mayor, Witness, Refinery, and Polecat. That structure has now been generalized into a broader platform. Instead of talking to an agent one task at a time, you define the work process itself as a fixed formula, and multiple agent teams execute that formula automatically, more like a software factory.
- Good fit for
- It suits large-scale workflows where you want multiple agents to repeat a defined process and get the same reproducible result every time. If you're adopting it new, it's better to look at the current Gas City structure rather than memorizing the old Gas Town role names.
- What it is
- Paperclip manages multiple AI agents like company employees, acting as a control plane for an AI organization. On the surface it looks like a task manager, but internally it handles company goals, an org chart, roles for each agent, a reporting hierarchy, and budgets.
- Good fit for
- It suits teams that have gone beyond running one or two agents and want to structure many agents like an organization, managing goals, budgets, and reporting lines together.
Grok Bot
New- What it is
- Grok Bot is a beta agent-team service from xAI (now SpaceXAI). Several named bots work around the clock on a cloud computer assigned to your account, passing tasks to each other in group chats and splitting up who does what.
- Good fit for
- It fits organizations that want to give each AI its own role and run them like a team. Show a bot how you do a task once and it saves the steps as a routine it repeats on its own. It is still in beta, open to paid SuperGrok and Cursor plan users first.
05Collaboration1 tool
A collaboration channel where people and AI check in together
When the AI hits a point where it needs a judgment call while working, this role lets it ask a person, who can answer or redirect it right there.
- What it is
- Buzz is a team collaboration space built so people and AI agents work together in the same channel. You can self-host it on your own servers, and agents are treated as full workspace members rather than bots bolted on. Messages, workflow steps, review approvals, and Git events are all recorded in a single log.
- Good fit for
- It suits teams that want people and AI agents to work together inside a familiar messenger structure of channels, threads, and DMs.
06Hands5 tools
Hands that click the browser on your behalf
This role has the AI open websites, click buttons, and fill out forms itself, taking over work a person would normally do with a mouse and keyboard.
- What it is
- A tool that lets an AI agent open a browser (an internet window) directly, click, type, and read what's on the screen. Instead of a person operating it step by step, the agent navigates websites on its own to get the task done.
- Good fit for
- Suits people who want to hand off sites that require logging in, or web tasks with repetitive clicking and typing, to an AI. Good when you'd rather direct the agent by watching the actual screen than write code.
- What it is
- Aside is an AI-native browser with an agent built directly into it. The agent uses your logged-in sites directly to handle real web tasks like sending messages, making payments, and operating internal tools. Passwords are stored in its own password manager, Aside Vault, and are autofilled without ever being exposed to the AI model.
- Good fit for
- It suits situations where you want to hand off repetitive website tasks entirely to an agent but are concerned about password exposure or mistakes on sensitive actions. Sensitive actions require human approval before they proceed.
- What it is
- A tool made by Microsoft that lets an AI agent open a browser, read the page's structure, and carry out actions like clicking or typing accurately. It's built on MCP (a common standard that connects different AI programs together), so it can be connected to other AI tools.
- Good fit for
- Suits people who want AI handling web tasks where accurate, stable behavior matters. Also suits those already using several AI tools together who need something that connects with the rest.
- What it is
- An open-source tool for building AI agents that "click through browsers for you." The AI reads the screen and decides on its own when to click, type, or scroll.
- Good fit for
- Suits developers or automation staff who want to automate repetitive web tasks themselves, like gathering data from multiple sites or auto-filling forms. It's a code-based tool, so it's hard for non-developers to set up alone.
- What it is
- A tool that runs browsers in the cloud so AI agents can operate websites. Browserbase provides the remote browser environment, and Stagehand turns plain-language instructions like "click this button" into actual clicks and inputs.
- Good fit for
- Suits dev teams running browser tasks at scale (dozens to hundreds at once) or operating browser automation reliably on a server. Since actions can be given in plain language, you can build a flow without writing detailed code.
07Production6 tools
Creative tools that produce video and design
This role has the AI produce visible output directly, like video, design drafts, or 3D scenes. It turns a script or plan a person wrote into an actual screen.
- What it is
- HyperFrames is an open-source tool that turns HTML screens into video. You describe what you want in a prompt, a coding agent builds a moving screen (motion graphics) in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and that gets turned into a video file.
- Good fit for
- It suits development environments that already use a coding agent and want that same agent to produce motion graphics video directly.
- What it is
- A framework for making videos with React, the code used to build web screens. You write scenes and animations in code, and it renders them out as an actual video file.
- Good fit for
- Suits teams that need to mass-produce videos in the same format with only the data changed, like per-product ad videos or automatically generated report videos. You need a developer who can work with code to use it.
- What it is
- A tool that lets you run HeyGen, the service that creates videos of a talking AI avatar, from the command line instead of the web dashboard.
- Good fit for
- Suits teams that need to automatically generate multiple avatar videos in the same format, like product intros or internal training. Being command-based, it's easy for developers or automation staff to work with.
- What it is
- Instead of just generating a single short clip, it's a professional creative platform that connects the entire production process into one workflow, from writing the script, through the storyboard (a layout of scenes) and keyframes (key scene images), to the finished piece. Multiple people can work together in the cloud.
- Good fit for
- It suits production teams making films or ads who need to keep the brand's or project's tone and style consistent from start to finish across many scenes.
- What it is
- Figma's official server for connecting the design tool Figma with AI. It lets AI read a Figma design file directly, then write code matching that design or pull design details from it.
- Good fit for
- Suits dev teams who design in Figma and need to turn it into real screen code, or anyone who wants to close the gap between design and development.
- What it is
- A tool that lets AI operate Blender, the 3D modeling program, on your behalf. Give it instructions in words, and the AI creates and edits the 3D scene directly.
- Good fit for
- Suits teams that need 3D content, like product mockups, animation, or rendered images, but find Blender hard to operate directly. Use it when you want to speed up 3D work by giving instructions in words.
08Workshop1 tool
A workshop for renting the computing power AI needs
This role lets you rent the computing power (servers, graphics processors, and similar resources) that AI needs for heavy workloads, only when you need it.
- What it is
- It's a workspace that keeps your agent's files and code stored in the cloud and handles heavy computing tasks, like 3D rendering or video conversion, that need a lot of processing power. You can connect it to the agent you already use without changing anything.
- Good fit for
- It suits people who want to hand off computing-heavy tasks, like video editing or 3D rendering, to an agent and keep the results stored so they don't disappear.
Comparison
Compare AI roles at a glance
| Role | What it does | Tools | When you need it |
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| 01Brain | What it does: The AI brain that actually executes the work | Tools | When you need itWith the right tool in this role, one instruction can carry through several steps. The more repetitive the work, the less time a person needs to stay hands-on. |
| 02Workbench | What it does: A workbench for handling several AIs on one screen | Tools | When you need itWith this role filled, you can run multiple tasks at once and see their progress at a glance. It helps most with work that splits into several branches, like AI writing code. |
| 03Control tower | What it does: A control tower for watching AI work from anywhere | Tools | When you need itWith this role filled, you can check on the AI's work and step in right away even when you are away from the office. |
| 04Team ops | What it does: An organizational layer that coordinates several AIs like a team | Tools | When you need itWith this role in place, multiple AIs start dividing up roles and moving on their own. A person only needs to set the overall direction. |
| 05Collaboration | What it does: A collaboration channel where people and AI check in together | Tools | When you need itWith this role filled, the AI can get a quick check from a person at decision points instead of guessing on its own. |
| 06Hands | What it does: Hands that click the browser on your behalf | Tools | When you need itWith this role filled, you can hand off tasks on sites that need a login or that require looking at the screen to click through. It also covers sites that have no API (a direct data connection between programs). |
| 07Production | What it does: Creative tools that produce video and design | Tools | When you need itWith this role filled, you can produce the video or design draft you need much faster. You can work by generating several drafts and choosing among them. |
| 08Workshop | What it does: A workshop for renting the computing power AI needs | Tools | When you need itWith this role filled, you can run heavy workloads by renting compute only when needed, without buying expensive equipment yourself. |
FAQ
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Start Assessment01There are too many AI tools, where do I even start?
In that case, it's better not to try to research everything at once, and instead start with just one or two tools that fit what you're doing right now. The diagnosis narrows the 8 areas down to only the tools you actually need at your current stage, so you can try them one by one in the order the result shows.
02Is ChatGPT alone enough?
It depends on the kind of work you do. ChatGPT (a conversational AI tool) is strong at things like organizing ideas or writing. But for different purposes, like handling code or operating a browser on your behalf, there are other tools built specifically for that. The diagnosis looks at your answers and picks out only the tools you actually need right now.
03Can I use the recommended tools even if I'm not a developer?
Yes, you can. Most of the tools that show up in your diagnosis are designed so you can just follow the on-screen instructions, even without development experience. A few tools take a bit more work to set up the first time, and when that's the case, the result screen explains it along with the recommendation.
04How is the recommendation decided?
It's based on your answers to 20 questions and the work details you choose. Your answers are converted into a score that places you in one of three stages (starter, growing, or operating), and based on that stage and the nature of your work, a tool is chosen for each of 8 areas. Any area you don't need is marked "not needed".
05Is an English-language tool better than one with Korean support?
There's no single right answer, it depends on how you work. Tools with good Korean support are easier to get used to at first, and English-based tools tend to have more options to choose from. The diagnosis looks at your answers and prioritizes whichever fits your current work better.
06Does taking the diagnosis cost anything?
No, it's free. Answering the 20 questions and getting your result doesn't cost anything at any point. Any program suggested as a next step on the result screen can be discussed separately through consultation.
07Do I have to log in or enter an email?
No, you can take the diagnosis without entering either. You answer the questions and see your result right away, and the result is provided as a shareable link.
08Is the result saved?
Even without saving anything yourself, the result stays available through a shareable link. You can take the diagnosis without logging in or entering an email, and if you save the result page's link, you can come back to it later.
09Is the diagnosis result a verdict on my company?
No, it's a starting point, not an evaluation. It's a reference based on your answers to 20 questions that gives a rough sense of where things stand right now, not a measure of your company's overall capability or performance. If you need a more precise assessment, you can move on to a consultation from the result screen.
10How long before this actually helps?
There's no fixed timeline, it depends on how often you actually try applying it to your work. The diagnosis points out where to start given your current situation, and how quickly you get comfortable with it varies from person to person and job to job.
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