Archives: AI Tools

Podium

Convert More Local Leads with AI Employee for Texts, Calls, and Reviews

Podium is an AI-powered lead conversion platform built specifically for local businesses, used by more than 100,000 companies in automotive, home services, aesthetics & wellness, and retail to turn inbound calls, texts, and webchats into booked appointments and revenue.

The flagship product is AI Employee — an industry-trained agent that responds to leads in under a minute, schedules appointments, requests reviews, and follows up automatically across SMS, phone, and web. Combined with a unified inbox, built-in payments, review automation, and a contact CRM, Podium gives multi-location local businesses a single workspace for capturing, qualifying, and converting every lead.

Pricing

    • Core / Pro / Signature: Custom quote — tiered plans by business size with industry-specific configurations (Auto, Home Services, Aesthetics & Wellness, Retail)
    • AI Employee: Available as an add-on across every plan (industry variants: AI BDC, AI Patient Coordinator, AI CSR, AI Sales Consultant)
    • Enterprise: Custom pricing for multi-location and franchise operations

Public pricing is not displayed — all plans require a sales conversation. Reported entry-level pricing typically starts in the mid-hundreds per month per location.

Vapi

Build Low-Latency Voice AI Agents with Full Model Control

Vapi is an API-first platform for building, testing, and deploying voice AI agents at enterprise scale. It handles the hard real-time infrastructure — speech-to-text, LLM orchestration, text-to-speech, and telephony — so developers can ship production phone agents in minutes instead of months.

Used by Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York Life, Vapi powers customer support, lead qualification, and appointment-scheduling agents with sub-600ms response times and natural turn-taking. Its provider-agnostic design lets teams pick from dozens of STT, LLM, and TTS providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Deepgram, ElevenLabs, Gladia, and more — or bring their own API keys to control cost and model choice, while built-in guardrails, monitoring, and SOC 2 / HIPAA / PCI compliance make it viable for regulated industries.

Pricing

    • Build: Usage-based — $0.05/min platform fee, model provider costs at cost ($0 if you bring your own API keys), $10 per concurrent line/month, community and email support
    • Chat / SMS: $0.005 per message
    • Scale (Enterprise): Fixed platform fee + committed volume, volume-based per-minute pricing, custom SLA, dedicated account team, SSO/RBAC
    • Add-ons: HIPAA compliance $2,000/month, Zero Data Retention $1,000/month

There is no flat monthly subscription on the Build plan — you pay only for what you use, with model costs passed through at cost.

Opus Clip

Turn Long-Form Video into Viral Shorts with AI-Powered Clipping

Opus Clip is an AI video repurposing platform used by over 16 million creators and businesses to transform long-form podcasts, livestreams, webinars, and interviews into ready-to-publish short clips for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels.

The tool’s ClipAnything engine identifies viral-worthy moments based on spoken words, visual cues, emotion, and genre-specific models, while ReframeAnything dynamically reframes the footage to 9:16, 1:1, or 16:9 with active speaker tracking and gameplay layouts. AI captions, B-roll generation, voice-overs, filler-word removal, and a built-in social media scheduler turn the platform into a full short-form video factory for podcasters, marketers, agencies, and content teams.

Pricing

      • Free: $0/month – 60 minutes of video processing, basic AI clipping, watermarked exports, 9:16 reframing
      • Starter: $15/month – 150 monthly credits, no watermark, 1080p export, ClipAnything across all signals, Brand template
      • Pro: $29/month – 300 monthly credits, AI B-roll generator, voice-over, speech enhancement, scheduler, multi-aspect ratios, Zapier integration
      • Business: Custom pricing – team workspace, member seats, API access, CMS integration, SSO, custom onboarding, and dedicated support