A guide to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, image AI, voice AI, and coding AI — written like a smart friend explaining it over coffee. No engineering degree assumed.
The model this whole site was written with. Strong on writing, reasoning, coding, and not making things up. Also: actually pleasant to talk to.
Read the guideThe household name. Voice mode, image generation, code execution, and the broadest user base on Earth.
Read the guideGoogle’s flagship, strong on long-context tasks (a million tokens) and integrated with Google Workspace.
Read the guideVoice cloning, transcription, music generation, and AI-driven podcast tools. Suno, ElevenLabs, Whisper.
ReadMidjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Flux. Style transfer, photo editing, and generative art for normal people.
ReadSora, Runway, Veo, Pika. Generate, edit, and extend video. The current state and what’s actually usable.
ReadClaude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex. Pair programming with an AI that actually understands your codebase.
ReadEmail triage, calendar AI, meeting notes, knowledge bases. The AI that gets work off your plate.
ReadClaude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot. The conversational AI you actually use day-to-day.
ReadReal use cases for shops, freelancers, and solopreneurs. Customer email, marketing copy, scheduling.
ReadPerplexity, NotebookLM, Elicit. AI for digging into papers, books, and the deep web of knowledge.
ReadDon’t shop. Just sign up for one (Claude or ChatGPT, free tier is fine) and use it every day for two weeks. You’ll learn more from doing than from reading reviews.
Read the Claude guidePick the one thing that bugs you most about your week. Email overload, summarizing a long PDF, drafting a tough message. Solve that one thing first.
Productivity AI guideThe most valuable skill in working with AI is knowing where it gets things wrong. Hallucinations, math mistakes, outdated facts. Catch them and you’ll get the most out of every other interaction.
Read the FAQMost AI websites read like venture capital pitch decks. Breathless predictions, jargon walls, and an endless stream of “you won’t believe what AI just did” clickbait.
This isn’t that. AI WholeTech is for the rest of us — the small business owner who needs better customer email replies, the writer who wants help with research, the curious person who’d like to know what Claude actually is before signing up.
Every page on this site is written for a real person who has real things to do. We tell you what works, what doesn’t, what’s overhyped, and what’s genuinely useful. We won’t make you feel stupid for not knowing what a token is.